Peanut Butter Desserts

For centuries, cooks have realized that basic flavors have an inherent balance. For example, salt is used to enhance bitterness and sweetness, like in sweet & sour soup. Chinese cooking in antiquity had a sense of balancing xian, salty, with tian, sweet. Today, that same principle is applied in Reese's Cups, a spoonful of peanut butter on ice cream, and chocolate peanut butter pie.

Desserts abound which combine sweets and peanut butter-- PB cookies, fudge, pudding, peanut butter cheesecake, and peanut butter milkshakes.

Try these lip-smackers: Smucker's Peanut and Jelly Sandwich Cookies and JIF Peanut Butter Bread Pudding. And, click here for a recipe for Peanut Butter-Chocolate Fondue from The Peanut Board.
Experience Skippy's Delectable Drizzled Cheesecake, if you dare.

Here is Mrs. Langenstein's simple, but delectable, recipe for peanut butter icing--
    2 tps of butter
    1/4 cup of water
    2 tps of 10X sugar
    1/4 cup of peanut butter
Heat butter and water to boil, pour over sugar and stir in peanut butter, beat until smooth and creamy, add to cake of your choice.