The ultimate indulgent dessert: peanut butter truffle pie! Seven years. Seven years of sharing recipes and snippets of my life with my loyal blog readers. Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! Seven years is a long time. I have a niece who was born just a few days before I started this blog, so I can always track what a person can become in the time this blog has been running. My niece is an adorable little girl, about to start second grade. She's an avid reader and loves to bake - without her mother's help. Like I said, seven years is a really long time. When I started this blog, Instagram was in its … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies
The nostalgic flavors of your childhood baked into a cookie: Peanut Butter & Jelly Cookies! This post is brought to you as part of an ongoing partnership between this blog and Best Select. Thank you for supporting the brands that keep this blog running. Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! These cookies are one of the most fun I've created in a while. Let me tell you the story of them. Don't worry, it won't take long! It started out when my six year old niece knocked on my door to give me a picture she drew of me. Let's not mention her ulterior motive of wanting a treat before she goes back h … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter Crumb Muffins
These Peanut Butter Crumb Muffins are easy to make and completely addictive! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group. Click here to join the conversation. These muffins were, to be perfectly honest, born of a craving. I just woke up one morning, totally in the mood for something homemade. The issue was...I was feeling lazy and totally didn't want to make anything complicated. Here's an important lesson for you guys. When you want something homemade and you're feeling lazy, you should be turning to muffins. As a general rule, muffins are super easy to make. And as an extra bonus, muffins are generally made from … [Read more...]
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cereal Bars
These quick and easy No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cereal Bars are a sweet and salty lover's dream come true! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! I just have to tell you guys that this time of year is quite a challenge for a kosher food blogger. On the one hand, nobody wants to think about the big "P" word just yet. Let's not talk about P***** until we absolutely have to. Amiright? And let me just tell you guys that I am the last person in the world who would want to stress you out. But...on the other hand, we (collectively) kind of have to face reality. No matter how hard we try to avoid thinking … [Read more...]
Sweet and Salty Chocolate and Peanut Clusters
Sweet and Salty Chocolate and Peanut Clusters are an easy, no-bake treat for the sweet and salty fan in your life! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! Hey folks. I'm back today with a really fun and delicious recipe that you really need to make for shalach manos. But let's back up a minute, shall we? Remember about a month ago, when I introduced you to a new company called Crafted Kosher? Well. The Pastrami Wrapped BBQ Chicken Fingers that I shared in that post have kinda gone viral. I think about a million people have made them, and they all R.A.V.E. So in today's post, where I'm once again … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter Mousse with Chocolate Pretzel Crumbs
This dessert is pure decadence: Rich and creamy Peanut Butter Mousse with delicious sweet and salty chocolate pretzel crumbs. Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? Full of recipes, kitchen tips and deals and more! Click here to signup. As a professional recipe developer who's also a big worrier, I find myself worrying about a lot of things. For example, when I posted this roast recipe for the holidays, a TON of people told me they were making it. So naturally, I worried. What if I copied the instructions down wrong and caused people to ruin their $60 piece of meat?! Thankfully, the roast got RAVE reviews, and I got to stop worrying, but you get the point. I worry. A lot. But … [Read more...]
Chocolate Chip Peanut Pie + WIN a Signed Copy of Something Sweet!
Chocolate Chip Peanut Pie from my cookbook, Something Sweet, is indulgent and delicious, but also really easy to make! I've been teasing you guys for so long, first with a cookbook announcement, then a behind-the-scenes post, then I unveiled the cover and showed you some photos, but now, finally I'm ready to share a sample recipe from my cookbook! Make sure to scroll down past the recipe, because I'm also giving away a signed copy of the book! I'm especially excited to share this recipe because it's one of the first that I came up with for my cookbook, and it's so amazing, so indulgent, so delicious - yet ridiculously easy. If you, like me, are a lover of all things peanut butter a … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies are dense and peanut buttery on the inside, and coated in chocolate - just like your favorite candy! ***Before we start – have you signed up for my email newsletters? You’ll get new recipes, cooking tips, menu suggestions, kitchen deals – and more! Click here to signup.*** Hello folks, and welcome to the second annual Chocolate Peanut Butter Day! This is a multi-blogger event hosted each year on March 25th by Carla of Chocolate Moosey and Miriam of Overtime Cook (that's me!). If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you have got to know that I am intensely, overwhelmingly and ridiculously in love with the combined flavors of chocolate an … [Read more...]
Fluffernutter Hamantaschen
The classic purim cookie gets a fun and flavor-packed update with these Fluffernutter Hamantaschen! ***Before we start – have you signed up for my email newsletters? You’ll get new recipes, cooking tips, menu suggestions, kitchen deals – and more! Click here to signup.*** Can you feel it in the air? Purim is coming up sooner than you think. That means that this blog is about to be filled with all kinds of exciting purim-y treats, starting with these insanely good Fluffernutter Hamantaschen. Let's talk about Hamantaschen flavors for a minute or two. Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that the internet explodes right around this time of year with an abunda … [Read more...]
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies {Without Butter or Margarine}
Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are delicious - without any butter or margarine!) ***Before we start – have you signed up for my email newsletters? You’ll get new recipes, cooking tips, menu suggestions, kitchen deals – and more! Click here to signup.*** What is it about a snow storm that makes people want to bake cookies? I dunno, but there's definitely something about that. In anticipation, I planned to post this recipe yesterday. I figured that with the Northeast all snowed in under a "blizzard of the century," you'd all be baking cookies, and would appreciate a new one to try. Well, turns out that the entire world (or so it seems) was baking cookies, but t … [Read more...]