How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Dreams

These beautiful little desserts are easy to make and perfect for entertaining or as a family treat. Using ingredients that you probably have in your pantry already, whip up some of these for a special dessert.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Edible Bowl Maker (I got mine at cookschoice.com)
• Cake mix or homemade cake batter
• 4 to 6 oz cream cheese
• 3 to 5 Tbsp peanut butter
• 1/4 to 1/2 tsp cocoa powder
• Sugar or other sweetener to taste
• Dash of vanilla or other flavoring
• 1/8 to 1/4 cup milk
• Shaved chocolate, sprinkles, whipped cream, chocolate syrup or any other topping

1. Make cake batter from a mix or from scratch.
2. Cook's Choice Better Baker Gourmet Bowl Maker Spray Better Baker Gourmet Bowl Maker with vegetable spray with flour or use plain vegetable spray and lightly flour the pan.
3. Pour cake batter into the Better Baker up to or slightly below the fill line.
4. Bake at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean.
5. While the cake bowls are baking, soften 4 ounces of cream cheese in the microwave.
6. Starting with the smallest amounts, add the peanut butter, cocoa, sweetener, vanilla or other flavoring and mix well. If this mixture isn't of an easily spoonable/spreadable texture, add small amounts of milk and mix well after each addition until the mixture is creamy. The consistencies of peanut butter and cream cheese vary so just add and mix until the filling is to your liking.
7. When the cake bowls are done, remove them from the oven. If they've risen above the pan, use a strand of dental floss or a sharp knife to gently slice the excess off each bowl until the cake is even with the pan.
8. Turn the pan upside down over a clean surface, lightly tap it a few times with a knife, and gently shake until the cake bowls come out.
9. Finished Chocolate Dream Made with the Gourmet Bowl Maker.. yum! Turn the cake bowls right side up and fill each hole with the cream cheese and peanut butter mixture. You can swirl it, mound it, play with it until you like how it looks. Top with shaved chocolate, sprinkles, whipped cream, chocolate syrup or any other topping you like.

Tips & Warnings

• If your cake bowls rise over the top of the pan, the trimmed cake can be crumbled and used as a delicious topping on the cake bowls.
• It's important that the pan be sprayed and floured well. I've found that vegetable spray with flour in it works best.