Chocolate Cake Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

This is for Moms Crazy Cooking Challenge for February and the challenge was "Chocolate Cake" where you use another bloggers recipe and try it out.

I chose Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies by Cookies and Cups although I was not able to find the mini Reece's peanut butter cups at my local grocery store and had to adapt using peanut butter chps.

Adapted from Cookies and Cups

1 box chocolate cake
2 eggs
1/3 cup canola oil
1 pkg. peanut butter chips
Parchment baking paper

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Hand mix cake mix, oil and eggs until combined.
3. Pour in entire bag of peanut butter chips (I used a 10 oz bag)
4. Mix chips. If necessary, add 1 TBSP of water until cookie doughish.
5. Roll with your hands the dough into tablespoon sized balls and place on a parchment lined baking sheet about 2" apart. Cookies will spread.
6. Bake for 9-10 minutes.

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Peanut Butter Magic Wands

A fun snack for an afternoon treat or a Harry Potter or Halloween party. The inspiration for this project was the carmel chocolate wands at the following site: http://heatherbailey.typepad.com/heather_bailey/2009/07/swish-and-flick.html My son didn't want chocolate as it aggravates his acne, so we decided on making them peanut butter instead. Items used:

• 1 pkg. Peanut butter chips (we used Reece's)
• 1 pkg.Pretzel Rods
• 1/4 cup Sunflower seeds
• 2 TBSP milk.
• Double boiler or eqivalent
• Baking Parchment or wax paper
• Cookie sheet
• Large spoon
• Large bowl or mug(s) to pretzels up in after dipping.

Fill the bottom pan with water about 3/4 full and put the top pan in. Add more water if needed. Put the chips in the top pan of your boiler and turn on to medium heat, stirring occassionally with a large spoon.

When the chips have mostly melted, add in the 2 TBSP of milk. Blend melted chips and milk together. Coat the top of the pretzel with the melted chip mixture.

Place the completed pretzels in a bowl or several mugs while finishing up the pretzels. Place parchment or wax paper on a baking sheet spread out the sunflower seeds and roll the top of the pretzel in the seeds to coat them. Place completed wands in the refridgerator to harden for a few minutes, then serve.