CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER LAVA CAKES

I’ve always had a thing for chocolate + peanut butter. I mean….who hasn’t?? It’s the original salty/sweet combo….and even though we’ve invented thousands more since, nothing quite compares to the marriage of creamy peanut butter and sweet, rich chocolate. AmIright??

I remember back in the day – like the middle school day – making chocolate + peanut butter snacks at sleepovers. The big favorite, of course? PUPPY CHOW! But eventually, we liked to take it beyond the basics. We liked to get a little more creative, have a little more fun. Apparently my friends and I had the minds of food bloggers from early on….

 I remember one night in particular, when we attempted to make chocolate peanut butter pancakes. And we clearly had no idea what we were doing, so they ended up more like chocolate peanut butter lava cakes….(except the lava was more like uncooked pancake batter. NOT at all delicious.)

Ingredients

• 1 stick + 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter
• 1/4 c. + 1 Tbsp. flour
• 1 Tbsp. cocoa powder
• 4 oz. bittersweet baking chocolate
• 1/4 c. peanut butter
• 2 Tbsp. powdered sugar
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/4 c. sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Melt 1 Tbsp. butter and brush the inside of 6 ramekins to coat.
3. Combine 1 Tbsp. flour and 1 Tbsp. cocoa powder. Flour the insides of the ramekins, tapping to remove excess.
4. ...................................

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