Aug 312010
Look at me being all green and reusing baby food jars! This Earth’s Best jar is the perfect thing to hold, store and take along desserts and snacks. It holds just over 1/2 cup and is so much prettier than plastic.
And for the dessert, I was reading through the South Beach diet book recipes just because I love so many of them and came across my peanut butter spread recipe! They are changing it up a bit to make it a dessert rather than a spread and replace the honey with stevia or splenda to make it low carb but it’s still just as creamy and delicious. After garnering inspiration from Cara and her cinnamon coffee fro-yo I decided to change this dessert recipe up a bit and make a mocha peanut butter cup.
Peanut Butter Mocha Cups
Serves 2
Appropriate for Phase 1 South Beach Diet
4 WW Pts
Ingredients
1 cup 1% cottage cheese, divided
2 Tbsp natural peanut butter, I used Naturally More, divided
4 packets sweetener of choice, I used Stevia
1 tsp vanilla extract, divided
1/2 tsp instant coffee, I used Starbucks Via
1/2 tsp Hershey Special Dark cocoa powder
Directions
1. Blend 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1 Tbsp peanut butter, 2 sweetener packets and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract until smooth. Spoon into a small bowl.
2. Blend second 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 1 Tbsp peanut butter, 2 sweetener packets, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and add coffee and cocoa powder. Spoon into a small bowl.
3. In two small jars or containers, divide the mixtures from each bowl evenly between the two jars, spooning alternate rounded tablespoonfuls from the first bowl and second bowl to create layers.
My eyes absolutely lit up when I saw this. I really can't think of a better dessert!
love! I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys blending cottage cheese and peanut butter together. I call it my “peanut butter cheesecake mousse” and it's funny to watch people as I tell them how amazingly good cottage cheese can be
Thanks ladies! A lot of people can't get past the idea that there is cottage cheese in it but you don't really taste it or get the texture. It's more of a vehicle for peanut butter.
Peanut butter + chocolate = the win. This looks fantastic! Thanks for visiting my site, glad I found you. You've got several recipes I've got bookmarked to try!
So now I want to go out buy some baby food just so I can make these. I never thought about using those jars for storage containers, but it is brilliant!