Another lazy person no-cook recipe

                   CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES 

      100 – 120        Cheese Ritz Crackers –packaged in sleeves is best – fewer broken

      1 Kg                Creamy Peanut Butter

      567 grams        Almond Bark or chocolate wafers (or 20 ozs)

      ¼ cup               Shortening or lard– I use Tenderflake vegetable shortening        (NO 

                                    substitutes!)     

 

      Make sandwiches with 2 crackers and peanut butter filling, smooth edges w finger,  make about 55 – 60

      Melt chocolate and shortening in microwave, stirring every ½ to 1 min (add enough shortening so chocolate coats cookies smoothly)

      Drop cookies into chocolate, turn or dunk with fork

      Lift out on fork tines, let drip a bit, scrape excess off bottom of fork against edge of bowl

      Set on wax paper, let cool

      Keep in fridge as chocolate is a little soft

 

I had one of this cookie.  It has some redeeming quality as a nutritional food because of the peanut butter.  Perhaps if you use dark chocolate instead of regular chocolate you might get some more nutrition bang out of it.  Great taste though but go easy.

Dark chocolate is good for health…BUT

Chocolate lovers beam when they hear that chocolate is good for your health. Those who love chocolate and have high blood pressure have all the more reason to smile because the experts have found that the flavonols in the dark chocolate may be a contributing factor in lowering blood pressure.

Not to burst your bubble but they are talking about a tiny sqare of chocolate and we who love chocolate know that we are never satisfied with a teeny-weeny square so why tempt yourself at the risk of gaining weight.  There are lots more stuff out there that is good for blood pressure that does not carry the weight gaining factor.

Try some hot cocoa. Buy a tin of Fry’s cocoa and add milk and a little bit of sugar and cinnamon and you will get the benefits of chocolate without the calories.