Home > Recipes > Chocolate Peanut Candy Squares

Chocolate Peanut Candy Squares Recipe

Several years ago, I took this recipe to my sister's annual Christmas cookie- and candy-making party. Everyone still tells me that their families beg them to make these decadent delights for their holiday festivities.

This recipe is:

Quick

[X]

Rate Chocolate Peanut Candy Squares Recipe

Click on stars to rate

Would you make this recipe again?

Write a review

[X]

Chocolate Peanut Candy Squares Recipe

Prep: 20 min. + chilling

Yield: 144 Servings

20 20

Ingredients

1 tablespoon plus 1 cup butter, divided
1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1 package (10 to 11 ounces) butterscotch chips
1 jar (18 ounces) peanut butter
1 can (16 ounces) salted peanuts
1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1 package (3 ounces) cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
1 teaspoon maple flavoring
1 package (2 pounds) confectioners' sugar

Directions

Grease a 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. pan with 1 tablespoon butter; set aside. In a saucepan over low heat, cook and stir chips and peanut butter until chips are melted and mixture is smooth. Spread half into prepared pan; refrigerate. Add peanuts to the remaining mixture; set aside.
In a saucepan, combine the milk, pudding mix and remaining butter; cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Cook and stir for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; stir in maple flavoring. In a bowl, beat confectioners' sugar and pudding mixture until smooth. Carefully spread over bottom layer. Carefully spread with reserved peanut mixture. Chill for at least 24 hours. Cut into 1-in. squares. Refrigerate in airtight containers. Yield: 12 dozen.

Originally published as Chocolate Peanut Candy Squares in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2002, p39