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25 sweet and salty desserts for your peanut butter addiction
Get your hand out of the peanut butter jar and try these sweet-salty desserts filled with your favourite peanut spread. Crunchy, smooth, it doesn’t matter which one you use. As much as we love peanut butter all on it’s own, it’s even better mixed into puddings, cakes, mousses, pancakes and slices.
Salted chocolate and peanut butter cake
When salty and sweet meet, you have a match made in heaven. You'll need a 23cm round cake pan for this recipe.
No-bake peanut butter crème brûlée
Take the hassle out of baking, with a decadent no-bake dessert. Just plan ahead, and you'll impress any guest, without having to turn on the oven. Begin this recipe at least 4 hours ahead. You will need a 1L-capacity ovenproof dish and a kitchen blowtorch.
Peanut butter mousse with chocolate butterscotch sauce and peanut brittle
There's nothing better than peanut butter and chocolate. Begin this recipe 1 day ahead.
Just try and resist this incredible Snickers pudding
Nostalgia is this year's buzzword with the comeback of the Wagon Wheel, Gaytime and more. This dessert combines all the top trending ingredients, including milk powder (Christina Tosi swears by it!), peanut butter and, of course, salted caramel.
Peanut butter, oat and jam bars
These sweet and salty snack bars by Danielle Alvarez are made from everyday pantry staples.
Salted caramel peanut slice
“This slice gets a welcome savoury hit with peanut butter and salted roasted peanuts." – Lucy Busuttil
Dreamy choc-chip pancakes
Breakfast food doesn’t get much better than pancakes. But you can always improve on perfection! Add chocolate chips and peanut butter, and you’ve got something that’s worth serving up at any time of day. This is an edited extract from Peanut Butter by Tim Lannan and James Annabel, published by Hardie Grant Books, $22.99. Photography by Kate Berry.
Best banana bread
We love that everyone calls it ‘banana bread’ to pretend that we’re not just eating cake for breakfast, but this recipe is so full of good things that you don’t even need to feel guilty about it. This is an edited extract from Peanut Butter by Tim Lannan and James Annabel, published by Hardie Grant Books, $22.99, and is available where all good books are sold. Photography by Kate Berry.
Chocolate peanut caramel tart
"This is an absolute treat, an incredibly rich tart that will mend even the most broken of hearts... Well, it doesn’t really, but it’s yum." – Khanh Ong. This is an edited extract from A Gay Guy's Guide to Life, Love, Food by Khanh Ong, Plum, RRP $34.99. Photography by Lauren Bamford. You'll need a a 23cm tart pan for this recipe.
PB and J drop cookies
How many ways can you PB+J? We say: there’s no limit. Jam-drop cookies just like your nan made, but with a bit of extra nuttiness. This is an edited extract from Peanut Butter by Tim Lannan and James Annabel, published by Hardie Grant Books, $22.99, and is available where all good books are sold. Photography by Kate Berry.
Peanut butter espresso martini
AKA the perfect breakfast cocktail. Garnish with coffee beans.
Salted peanut butter and jelly-glazed hot cross buns
A beloved sweet and salty spread is the featured glaze on these beaut buns. You’ll need a piping bag fitted with a 2mm plain nozzle for this recipe.
You need these chocolate and peanut butter hot 'knot' buns in your life
Salty and sweet and such a joy to eat. Be sure to make extras.
Classic cups
These fan favourites are ridiculously easy to make at home. You probably have the three ingredients in your cupboard right now, so there’s really no excuse to not walk straight into the kitchen and make a batch. This is an edited extract from Peanut Butter by Tim Lannan and James Annabel, published by Hardie Grant Books, $22.99, and is available where all good books are sold. Photography by Kate Berry.