Chocolate Peanut Butter Dreams

Hello.

Remember me?

I used to have this blog about cupcakes and stuff?

Then my daughter got chickenpox, strep throat and almost pneumonia all in one week? Then I got sick? Then everyone started avoiding me like I had the plague? Then I stopped posting because I was knee-deep in snotty noses and calamine lotion?

Yeah, welcome to my December.

Ugh.

In the midst of all of that gunk, you want to know what my saving grace was? Oh, it was cookies. Yummy, salty, sweet cookies.

And they are STUPID easy to make. Like, you could be hopped up on cold meds and STILL rock out these cookies.

Shall I share? Oh, I think I shall.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Cookies

Listen, first of all, you cannot make enough of these. My husband eats them by the plateful. They're seriously THAT good. That said, here's the recipe for a "smallish" batch. You will eat more than you intend. Keep that in mind.


Ingredients:
36 Ritz crackers
6 tablespoons peanut butter
4-5 squares almond bark (8-10 oz)
Sprinkles, nuts, etc., for topping -- totally optional (also totally cute)

Directions:
Put 1 teaspoon of peanut butter between two crackers. You can spread if you want, but you could also just plop it in the center of a cracker and smush the other one down carefully, so as not to break them. Your call.
Make all cookies and set on a lined baking sheet (aluminum foil works fine -- don't feel like you have to waste your wax or parchment paper on this).
Melt the almond bark according to package directions. DO NOT BURN! Burned almond bark is sad and smelly. Mix to smooth chocolate.
Using two forks, submerge each cookie one at a time into the chocolate and drag bottom of cookie along the edge of bowl to get most of the excess chocolate off. You don't want to sit the cookie on a big blob of chocolate. It will look prettier the more attention you spend on this step.
Before the chocolate sets, top with sprinkles, nuts, etc. Once the cookies cool and harden, EAT. Eat so much you cry with happiness.