PEEPs Fluffernutter Blondies
Blondies made with PEEPs®, chocolate and peanut butter turn a childhood favorite sandwich into a portable dessert, perfect for any holiday!
Easter is just around the corner which means one thing for me – PEEPS®!!! How do you like your PEEPS®? I like to let them get a little stale before enjoying them. I open the packaging and let the PEEPs sit around for a few days, which is torture, but always worth the wait. I also like the chicks more than the bunnies. No idea why, I just do (sorry bunnies).
So this year, when the guys at PEEPs & Company asked if I’d like some samples to play with in the kitchen, I was more than excited. I started brainstorming ideas of what I could create from these colorful candies and my mind instantly went to a fluffernutter sandwich.
I had my first fluffernutter a few years ago with a friend in Boston. Since I grew up in the Midwest, I had never heard of a fluffernutter. The combination of smooth salty peanut butter and gooey marshmallow cream is just right and it’s no wonder kids go crazy for those sandwiches! Using the fluffernutter as an inspiration, I came up with these PEEPs Fluffernutter Blondies which are made from a peanut butter blondie, topped with chocolate chips and chopped up PEEPs®.
Since PEEPs® have their signature colored sugar coating, I decided to cut out some of the sugar in the blondies. The chocolate is there because, well, chocolate. I posted this pic on Instagram that day since I was having so much fun. The stickiest part of this whole baking adventure was just cutting up the PEEPs®.
While I had a lot of fun playing in the kitchen with these flavors, I had even more fun exploring the goodies that the PEEPs® team had sent me. After I opened my box of goodies, I instantly recognized the iconic colorful chick and bunny PEEPs® and was intrigued by some new (to me) products as well. There were chocolate dipped PEEPs®, chocolate mousse flavored PEEPs®, large PEEPs® bunnies, Peepsters® and my new favorite – the chocolate covered PEEPs®. It’s a yellow chick PEEP® dipped in dark chocolate.
Be sure to check out www.marshmallowpeeps.com for recipe ideas, products, and the Express your Peepsonality contest!
Disclaimer: The PEEPs were sent to me at no charge. The opinions stated in this post are all mine.
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PEEPs Fluffernutter Blondies
Blondies made with PEEPs®, chocolate and peanut butter turn a childhood favorite sandwich into a portable dessert, perfect for any holiday!
Yield: 16 bars
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
Ingredients:
1/2 cup peanut butter (not Natural Peanut Butter)
1/3 cup butter, at room temp
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, at room temp
1 Tbsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
10-12 PEEPs
1/3 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degF. Prepare a 8x8" pan with parchment paper and/or baking spray.
Cream peanut butter and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until smooth and thoroughly combined. Scrape bowl and beater.
Add the sugars and vanilla. Beat until well mixed. Scrape bowl and beater again.
Add the flour, baking powder, and salt and mix until almost combined. Use a spatula to stir batter until flour is completely mixed in.
Bake for 30 minutes until blondies are almost done. While they are baking, use kitchen shears to cut PEEPs into bite-size piecces. After the 30 minutes are over, sprinkle chopped up PEEPs and chocolate chips on top of blondies. Return to oven and bake for 4-6 minutes, until PEEPs have begun to puff but aren't toasted. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before cutting.
When ready to cut, warm a large knife in a glass of hot water. Dip and dry with paper towel prior to each cut (the PEEPs will be gooey and sticky!)
Recipe from Beantown Baker
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I love it! Where did you get the jars? Now I totally wanna do this for xmas gifts!
/Clara
I looked everywhere and just couldn’t find them. I ended up ordering them from Amazon. They weren’t very cheap so that was a bummer…
Ah bummer. What size are the jars? I wonder if Ikea would have them? Whats the amazon link?
/Clara
I ordered them from here. You want the wide mouth jars so the cupcakes fit and the 1/2 pint size is perfect.
The yellow cupcakes didn’t rise much so I added more frosting to fill the jar and the chocolate ones rose quite a bit so they had less frosting. My sister said that the chocolate one had the perfect amount of frosting or could use a smidge more, so you want a cupcake that has at least a small dome.
haha, i’ve never seen that before 🙂 love it!
OH FUN! I’ve seriously always thought about doing this and never did. I’m starring this post to remind myself at Christmas. Too cute!!
I have been dying to try this ever since I saw it last year on someone else’s blog. They actually baked the cake in the jar and then iced it like a cupcake. I am going to have to order some of those iddy jars! Too cute!
Hmmm…might have to do this for Christmas instead of those “ingredients in a jar” thing we were thinking of.
I really want to try this, but I keep reading online that you shouldn’t put frosting in the jar because it will get moldy by the time it reaches its destination. I’m sure you would have heard if it was moldy when it got to your friend right? I would just be so embarrassed if that happened. Any help?
Renee – I’ve done this twice and both times haven’t heard of any mold. I froze the cupcakes/frosting in the jars prior to shipping them. I also shipped in the winter. My one sister even didn’t go get her package from the office until a week after it arrived and it was still good. I would guess she ate her cupcakes about 10 days after I sent them. I’m not sure if shipping in warm weather will have an impact on potential mold…
Alright I’ll definitely give it a try then. It will make for a very good Easter present for my faraway friends =)
Oh that’s a good idea!! I might have to order some more jars and do the same myself…
What a clever idea! I would love to get a cupcake in the mail! 🙂 Maybe I’ll send out Valentine’s Day Cupcakesnext year!
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Did you freeze them before shipping? The jars looked frosted…
beantownbaker — February 24th, 2013 @ 10:21 am
I did freeze them. They defrosted as they were shipped. I’ve done it with and without the freezing depending on the weather and whatnot.
What shipping method did you use? Overnight or Express???