Making Peanut Butter Lasagna to Tickle your Taste Buds
Are you looking for dessert options for slightly heavier meals that don’t make you feel too full? You can consider making this delicious chocolate peanut butter cup lasagna. As you will see, a lasagna dish need not be elaborate as the conventional recipe books suggest and that too, without compromising the taste. Plus, peanut butter in the ingredients gives a boost to your daily protein intake. So you know you are not loading up empty calories.
Peanut Butter Lasagna Recipe
Ingredients
For the crust
- 16 oz pack of Nutter Butter Cookies
- ⅓ cup butter, melted
For the peanut butter layer
- 8 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 8 oz whipped topping (like Cool Whip), thawed
For the chocolate layer
- 2 3.9 oz boxes of instant chocolate pudding
- 2⅔ cup milk
For assembly
- 8 oz whipped topping, thawed
- 1 cup mini Reese’s cups, halved
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter chips
- ⅟4 cup chopped peanuts
- Chocolate syrup (for drizzling)
Instructions
For making the crust
- Break the cookies into small crumbs with the help of a food processor or blender.
- Mix the cookie crumbs with the melted butter and spread evenly at the base of a 9×13 baking dish. Now set it aside.
For making the peanut butter layer
- Put the cream cheese, powdered sugar, peanut butter and milk in a mixing bowl and mix well with an electric hand mixer until the combination is smooth.
- Fold in the whipped topping
- Spread the peanut butter uniformly over the crust
For making the chocolate layer
- Add the milk and instant pudding to a large bowl and mix them well.
- When the pudding is smooth and slightly thick, spread over the peanut butter layer
- Refrigerate for 10 minutes
For assembly
- Spread the whipped topping over the pudding
- Sprinkle the dish with Reese’s candies, peanuts, peanut butter chips, chocolate chips and drizzle with chocolate syrup.
- Place in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours to set before cutting and having it.
Tips
- You can make peanut butter Oreo lasagna by swapping the Nutter Butter with Oreo cookies if your little one likes the latter more.
You can think of making this peanut butter crunch lasagna during barbeques, birthdays, parties and potlucks. A good thing about it is that the flavor of peanut butter in this dish is not overwhelming and neither does it have the stickiness of the said ingredient. Now you have something to satiate your midnight cravings for creamy, chocolatey desserts that are not just sweet but nutritious too.