This originally came from "Taste of Home" magazine, which, if you don't mind
excessive nostalgia and the annoying presence of
Midwestern nuclear families, is a pretty damn good source of
recipes.
Ingredients 1/2 cup softened
butter or
margarine 1/2 cup packed
brown sugar 2 tablespoons
milk 1/2 teaspoon
baking powder 1/4 cup creamy
peanut butter 1/3 cup baking
cocoa 2/3 cup
sugar 2
eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose
flour 1/4 teaspoon
salt 1/3 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup
chocolate chips
Directions - Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and milk; mix well.
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to sugar mixture and mix well.
- Divide batter in half. To one half, add peanut butter and peanut butter chips and mix well. To the other half, add the cocoa and the the chocolate chips and mix well.
- In a greased 9" square baking pan, spoon the chocolate batter in 8 mounds in a checkerboard pattern. Spoon seven mounds of the peanut batter in between the chocolate batter. Swirl the two batters together with a knife.
- Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 to 30 minutes.