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The Reese Bowl

by Z-Dog and Big-J 8 photos Rated 87% 439 votes when voting closed

Ingredients:

Large quantities of chocolate, approximately 6 cups.
5 cups of peanut butter.
One cup of butter.
3 tbl spoons of baking sugar.

Total cost: $1.50 CDN (we only needed to by the Reese Cups)

It all started like any ordinary Saturday morning, two friends embarking to finish their grade eight English project. But what do you do when you finish about six hours earlier than planned? Its simple you pimp something. Well we sat, we pondered, we played video games and then it hit us like chocolate on peanut butter! The infamous Reese Cup, oh the almighty Reese Cup. So we got our ingredients ready. Luckily my friend won a 25 pound chocolate bunny for Easter, so we had quiet enough chocolate. The next thing to buy was a pie dish, the most extraordinary and innovative pie dish ever (By that we mean its made out of plastic)

Melted chocolate whisked in a bowl and tipped down into the green flan mould below

Then we melted the chocolate. (in the microwave.) See it can be done! And pored it into the dish, stuck it in the freezer and let it set.

Green fluted flan mould of melted chocolate set out on a baking tray in the snow

Now we set out onto the peanut butter. Get a small pot and heat the peanut butter on low. Mix in the butter and baking sugar until gooey mess. Pour the goop out of the pot and spread on dollop on top of the chocolate layer. Make sure the chocolate does not touch the edges. It was at this point that we realized we had created something truly magnificent and pimp worthy.

A whole block of butter dropped onto peanut butter mixture in a saucepan with a wooden spoon

Peanut butter filling spread with a spatula over the set chocolate base in the green mould

Now melt the rest of the chocolate and pour over the peanut butter. Spread it out so it covers all of it.

Pouring melted chocolate from a bowl over the peanut butter layer and spreading it with a spatula

The fluted mould filled to the brim with smooth melted chocolate, ready to set

Now let it set for a few hours. In this time some of our friends came over and we played some hoops. (Yes we are that gangster) It was at this point that I was not paying attention to a rebound, the ball caught my pinky and snapped it at both joints. I though it was funny until I looked at it resembled the letter “n” Use your imagination. After getting it set it broke again I didn’t tell anyone so now I have to get my finger broken and reset again a month and a bit later. Oh joy! I went home and Big-J (AKA Jure) carried on without Z-Dog (Zac) so here’s the final result in all its beauty!

The giant peanut butter cup turned out on the counter beside a normal Reese's cup and wrapper

Cut open to reveal a thick peanut butter layer between chocolate, a halved ordinary cup in front

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