National Peanut Festival Day-Amy's Way!

Peanuts, peanut butter, peanut oil... We tend to avoid them all. My little guy is allergic so really we just try to stay away. Every once in a while I will make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or eat peanut butter with my banana, and he wont come within 10 feet of me... "it smells horrible". Oh I am so glad he doesn't know what he is missing out on! Its pretty funny because like Kim, if I don't want to share, all I have to do is make sure there is peanut in it somewhere... peanut butter cups, peanut butter cookies, peanut butter M&Ms... as a Mom, you know there are the times you don't want to share!

So anyway, today I decided to makeup a recipe combining a couple of ideas... I'm sure there is a recipe out there that is similar, but I didn't go out looking and I didn't run across it in the last week. So  here they are:

Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies!

My mom makes this jello pretzel salad that has a pretzel crust that I love. Its filled with sugar, butter and pretzels... Goodness! So I did that as my crust. Add some peanut butter, your favorite brownie recipe (or box mix) a little more peanut butter, and WaLa!

Pretzel Crust
2 cups cosely chopped, smashed, broken pretzels
1 1/2 sticks of butter
4-5 tsps. sugar

Melt your butter, mix in the sugar, and then add the crushed pretzels. Mix and dump into 9x13. Spread to cover the bottom and then bake at 400 for 8-10 minutes.

While the crust in in the oven baking, mix up the brownie mix and set aside. If you have time... now is a good time to do those dishes that I HATE! Pull the crust out of the oven and let cool for just a minute. I melted my peanut butter. You may use as much or as little as you would like. I drizzled the peanut butter over the hot pretzel crust and then poured the brownie mix over top and drizzled a little more. Pop in the oven and bake according to brownie directions and ......... ENJOY!!!