I did two things on this day I hadn’t done before. I made a successful shortbread base and a peanut butter fudge. I put those two amazing things together to make my favorite type of dessert…a tray bake!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 sticks of butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- pinch of salt
- 1 1/2 cups of flour
- 1 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
- 2 cups peanut butter and chocolate chips
- Peanuts for garnish
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper.
- Put all your ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment and mix to combine. The mixture will be crumbly.
- using lightly oiled hands push down your ingredients in an even layer into your pan. Use a fork to dock the pastry so it doesn’t rise up to high.
- Bake the pastry for 30 minutes until it is a nice golden brown. Set it aside to cool.
- While the pastry base is cooling put a medium size sauce pan on medium heat.
- Put the condensed milk and chocolate into the pan and cook until the chocolate is melted and fully incorporated.
- Put your fudge mixture on top of your cooked pastry base and garnish with peanuts.
- Put in fridge to set for at least one hour.
This delicious tray bake almost tasted better the longer it set so if you can wait I would make it the day before you need it and let it sit.
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