Yummm....

We're on a cooking kick here. We decided to start the new year off in a more organized fashion and we've been doing the "Grocery Bag" feature from Martha Stewart Everyday Food magazine. This is a really great feature, we are having a lot of success with it, and I'm discovering that cooking can be fun and easy. Anyways, one of these was to make chicken pot pies. Rather than the traditional "pie" method, this recipe called for putting a layer of puff pastry on top for just an upper crust.


Well it turns out puff pastry sheets only come in a pack of two. So, not wanting to waste the 2nd sheet, or let it fall to the back of the fridge to be lost forever. I jumped on puffpastry.com in a rare-I-must-bake-something-right-this-minute mood. That spontentatiy really limits what you can make, since most puff pastry recipes require some specialized filling, which was not immediately available in my house. This was one of those baking-now-or-never emergencies, so it could have very easily failed. But, puffpastry.com came through with this result:

They are called peanut butter cups. It takes less time than the recipe implies, I didn't really measure, just threw in some chocolate chips instead of baking chocolate and skipped out on the marshmallows (I can't remember the last time I had marshmallows of any sort in my house).


I sprayed the pans with PAM before putting in the pastry, and they popped right out. I only have 12 muffin tins, so I made four giant cups with my ramekins:

So, yummy....