My "invention"

Kelly and I have had our Thanksgiving meal planned for a good 5-6 months now. It basically consists of meat and desserts. Kelly is smoking brisket AND pulled pork. Then we will have cornbread muffins and Kelly's awesome BBQ beans. As for the important stuff, I will be making Oreo balls, peanut butter balls, and pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting. This has all been planned for quite some time (except the pumpkin bars, it was going to be pumpkin roll but the pumpkin king has changed his mind).

When we were in Myrtle Beach this summer, some of the candy shops had chocolate dipped marshmallows. I had never had one before but they looked awesome so I tried one. They were really good so I decided to try making them for Thanksgiving as well. A few months ago, I thought how cool would it be if I dipped the marshmallows in peanut butter and chocolate? Because there is nothing quite as tasty as peanut butter and chocolate together. I looked around on the internet to see if there were any recipes but I couldn't find anyone using the extra touch of peanut butter. So I decided to do a trial run to see if it would work. I wasn't sure if the peanut butter would set up. I'm sure this has been done before but since I couldn't find it anywhere online, I'm calling it my invention.

So first I took some Jif peanut butter and put it in the microwave for about a minute until it was somewhat melted. I put jumbo marshmallows on a toothpick and dipped them in the peanut butter. Then I put them in the fridge for a few hours (I'm sure they didn't need this long but I was waiting until my kids were in bed) to help the peanut butter harden up.



When I pulled them out of the fridge that night, the peanut butter wasn't hard but it wasn't going to slide off the marshmallow either so I figured that was good enough. The marshmallows were a bit hardened so I was worried that they would never get soft again but I went ahead and dipped them in chocolate almond bark anyway.



No need to worry. The marshmallows quickly got soft again as they warmed up to room temperature. The almond bark quickly hardened, keeping the peanut butter in tact. These are just my trial run so I didn't worry about aesthetics but they are delicious. You know you want to try one.

Kelly had the idea of rolling them in crushed graham cracker. It sounds like a nice touch and would make them more pretty but I'm not sure if I'm going to do that or not.