Peanut Butter Truffle Brownies

A chocolate brownies base with peanut butter filling followed by a top layer of ganache. How does this sound to you? This has been bookmarked much earlier from Sweet Peas Kitchen. I know a lot of chocolate lovers would love this dessert. Call this rich, sinful, unhealthy, fattening..i still would not stop eating after a piece.  I did not get a smooth ganache topping as what Christina had and used dark choc chips instead of regular choc chips therefore you can see the ganache on mine is much more darker. I made half of the original recipe into a 8.5"x5.5" tray and it did not take long to finish all that after some relatives came visiting. For those of you who think you love this brownies, chocolate and peanut butter combination should try making it one day but dont come after me if you find it difficult to stop eating this and the add on calories!

Original Recipe ( from Sweet Peas Kitchen , adapted from Worth Her Salt)
For the Brownies:

1 cup butter
2 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 tsp vanilla essence
2/3 cocoa powder
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder

For the Peanut Butter filling
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
2 cup powdered sugar
2-3 tsps milk

For the Ganache Topping
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup butter
2 tbsps heavy whipping cream

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350F.Butter the bottom and sides of a 9" by 13" metal baking pan. Put a long piece of parchment paper in the bottom of the pan, letting the parchment extend up two sides of the pan and overhand slightly on both ends. This will makeit easy to remove the bars from the pan after they have baked. Butter the parchment.
2.In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Remove from heat and add the sugar, stir to combine. Beat in eggs and vanilla unil combined. Mix in cocoa pwder, baking powder and salt. Add flour and stir until just combined and no streaks of dry ingredients remain. Pour into prepared pan and spread into an even layer. Bake for 25-30minutes. Let cool completely in pan .
3.While the brownies are cooling, make the peanut butter filling. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, combine the ingredients and beat until smooth. Add more milk if necessary to make it spreadable. Spread in an even layer over the brownies. Place in the refrigerator until filling is set, about 30 minutes.
4. While the filling is setting, make the ganache. Combine the ingredients in a double boiler or is a microwave safe bowl. Melt together and combine. Pour the ganache over the top and spread gently.Return to the fridge until set.

Will be submitting this post to Aspiring Bakers #7 -Chocolate Delight(May2011) hosted by Doris from Tested & Tasted