YUMMY!
on my other blog, I had already waxed poetical over the ease of a no bake cheesecake. but here's a post for this one... perhaps my favorite version of it... Chocolate Peanut Butter!
1 graham cracker or oreo crust
1 8 oz pkg cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar or splenda
1 8 oz tub cool whip - your choice: regular, lite, fat free or sugar free
1/4 to 1/2 C creamy peanut butter
1/2 C chocolate chips
Mix together cream cheese, sweetner of choice and blend until smooth. fold or mix in cool whip. set aside.
melt the chocolate chips in microwave or over double boiler until smooth when stirred... 30 seconds to 1 minute in microwave. Pull out about a cup of the mixed cream cheese mixture and stir in the chocolate.
mix the peanut butter into remaining amount. the amount of peanut butter is negotiable depending on how 'peanutty' you want it. it does become more prominent as it sits so you may want to do this before the chocolate step and then add more if you want it.
Assembly:
spread 1/2 of your chocolate mixture on the bottom of the crust. carefully spread the entire peanut butter mix on top and top with remaining chocolate part. swirl this to show both flavors as you will not have enough to totally top it.
(you could of course put all the chocolate on the bottom and then top the whole thing with hot fudge sundae topping - this thickens quite nicely and smoothly and is just a decadant topper.)
chill well...you can freeze... and serve ...
*sigh*
love it on my menu!
