PEEPs Fluffernutter Blondies

Blondies made with PEEPs®, chocolate and peanut butter turn a childhood favorite sandwich into a portable dessert, perfect for any holiday!

Easter is just around the corner which means one thing for me – PEEPS®!!! How do you like your PEEPS®? I like to let them get a little stale before enjoying them. I open the packaging and let the PEEPs sit around for a few days, which is torture, but always worth the wait. I also like the chicks more than the bunnies. No idea why, I just do (sorry bunnies).

So this year, when the guys at PEEPs & Company asked if I’d like some samples to play with in the kitchen, I was more than excited. I started brainstorming ideas of what I could create from these colorful candies and my mind instantly went to a fluffernutter sandwich.

I had my first fluffernutter a few years ago with a friend in Boston. Since I grew up in the Midwest, I had never heard of a fluffernutter. The combination of smooth salty peanut butter and gooey marshmallow cream is just right and it’s no wonder kids go crazy for those sandwiches! Using the fluffernutter as an inspiration, I came up with these PEEPs Fluffernutter Blondies which are made from a peanut butter blondie, topped with chocolate chips and chopped up PEEPs®.

Since PEEPs® have their signature colored sugar coating, I decided to cut out some of the sugar in the blondies. The chocolate is there because, well, chocolate. I posted this pic on Instagram that day since I was having so much fun. The stickiest part of this whole baking adventure was just cutting up the PEEPs®.

While I had a lot of fun playing in the kitchen with these flavors, I had even more fun exploring the goodies that the PEEPs® team had sent me. After I opened my box of goodies, I instantly recognized the iconic colorful chick and bunny PEEPs® and was intrigued by some new (to me) products as well. There were chocolate dipped PEEPs®, chocolate mousse flavored PEEPs®, large PEEPs® bunnies, and my new favorite – Peepsters®. They’re a bite-sized marshmallow creme covered milk or dark chocolate.

Be sure to check out www.marshmallowpeeps.com for recipe ideas, products, and the Express your Peepsonality contest!

Disclaimer: The PEEPs were sent to me at no charge. The opinions stated in this post are all mine.

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Source: http://www.beantownbaker.com/2014/04/peeps-fluffernutter-blondies.html