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Peanut Butter HiFi Buddy Bars—Prototype 1:
Let's take a good look back at all these "Buddy" bars. Chocolate
and peanut butter "shared" their "rule" with each other
for the first few recipes. Then chocolate got to have a recipe all to
itself. Later on, this popular flavor teamed up with cherry early in a year
as Valentine's Day approached.
But peanut butter never got to have such a bar recipe all to itself...until
now. Okay, white chocolate is used here, but this stuff is relatively
neutral, at least compared to its darker, brown counterparts. In fact, many
feel that this white ingredient should not even be called
"chocolate". Possible alternative names have included "white
candy". What can one officially call this thing? Maybe
"neutral confection"? Still, for now, let's call this ingredient
"white chocolate", whether it really is chocolate or not. Anyway,
in light of this ingredient being so neutral that many flavorings added to
it have easily dominated this white stuff, it should be reasonably safe to
say that peanut butter is the sole flavor ruler (or at least easily the
dominator) of this recipe described here.
So what do you do for such a nutty prototype here?
Looks like Prototype 8 of the Chocolate Peanut Butter Bran Buddy Bars is a
good starting point. The changes are extremely simple and only need to be
made in the crust: delete the semi-sweet chocolate, and increase the peanut
butter by 4 ounces and the sugar by 1/4 cup. That all! The results:
Crust:
16 oz. whipped lowfat cottage cheese
6 oz. unsalted peanut butter
1 tbsp. skim milk
(blend the above three ingredients before adding the next three ones below)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla (next to last ingredient here!)
8.8 oz. Bran Buds, ground up
Filling:
6 oz. melted, white chocolate
2 oz. unsalted peanut butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla (last ingredient here!)
Use a 9" x 9" pan, of course.
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