Peanut Butter Nutella Pie

I made a double batch and this yielded two pies, but I am posting the recipe for one pie. This dessert is super rich and decadent, so having 2 pies is dangerous!

This whips up fast and is really easy, with no baking involved, but takes a little while to chill and set.

Ingredients

4 oz cream cheese or neufchatel, softened

3/4 cup confectioner's sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

8 oz container of cool whip*

1 chocolate crust

1/4 cup nutella

Peanut butter chips and/or chocolate chips for garnish

*If you don't like cool whip, you can substitute 8 oz. of heavy whipping cream, whipped until thick

Black Bottom Cupcakes

One day at work, there was an office party, and I signed up to bring in cupcakes.  After I did, I became known as the "Cupcake Lady" and was the go-to gal for party pastries.   My cupcakes got to be such a coveted item that one time someone in my office heard about a batch I made and literally pushed things off my desk and gave me the silent treatment for a week because I did not save her any.  


I have many cupcake recipes, but there are two that are most requested, the Banana Cupcake with Peanut Buttercream frosting (which I will share later), and the Black Bottom Cupcake, which is essentially a chocolate cupcake with a chocolate chip cheesecake in the center of it.  I like to make the black bottom cupcake because it is easily transportable since it has no frosting, and definitely a crowd pleaser!

The Ingredients.

This recipe is adapted from a recipe taken from http://www.allrecipes.com, which I use for a lot of my base recipes.  I enjoy all the recipe reviews that have variations to improve or change up the original recipe.  In this case, I doubled the recipe and added a LOT more chocolate!  Here is the step-by-step instructions on how to make these easy but amazingly decadent treats.

3 cups flour

2 tsp baking soda

1 cup cocoa powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup white sugar

2/3 cup oil
2 tbsp vinegar
2 cups water

2 tsp vanilla

2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese 

2 eggs

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 tsp salt

1-1/2 cups mini chocolate chips