I either listen to music (what is playing in the background as I write this), read (working on Moby Dick right now), or bake... Fair warning, they're super rich and addicting. 1 cup of peanut butter 1 cup of butter 1 pound of powdered sugar 1 2/3 cups of graham crackers. I used a pack of 6 or 7. However many were in the single package. You have to powder these. Completely. Take out all your rage on these sons of bitches. They are your bitch, and you are crushing them into oblivion. (I like this part...) Mix all of that together in a bowl by hand. Make sure everything is combined. You can't over mix this. Next, layer it in a greased 9x13 inch pan and spread the peanut butter stuff evenly across the bottom and put it in the refrigerator. Lastly, melt 6 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate, then pour it on top of the peanut butter stuff from above. Spread it out. It won't completely cover the peanut butter stuff, there will be a little bit of room around the edge. If you want to cover it completely, then make a little extra. Slap that stuff into the refrigerator and let it cool. Then cut into it and eat it all in one guilty, delicous, relaxing, stress reducing sitting.
How do you crush the graham crackers that fine? Do you use a mortar and pestle?
No, I put them in a bag then beat them with a wooden hammer.
Oh fuck yeah. Funny thing is I keep telling my wife we oughtta get a mold to press 'em into 'cuz they hold their shape really well and with the imprecise way in which we make them, they either look like turds or Miracle Max's Miracle Pill, depending on your state of mind: Here's last easter's harvest. Note that the recipe calls for cutting the chocolate with paraffin 'cuz this isn't exactly a "tempering" recipe so we just keep 'em in the fridge. If we had a mold, I probably would bother with tempering because, you know, quality.
