Chocolate peanut butter squares

These delights came about as a result of watching cookery programmes over breakfast. Never a good idea. Luckily they're being given away to a friend so I can't eat them all myself.

This recipe is courtesy of Lorraine Pascale so all credit has to go to her for creating something so deeply delicious!

It's a no-baking recipe, so all you'll need is a microwave for melting and a fridge for chilling...and a blitzer if you can't be bothered with the hassle/mess of smashing biscuits up!

To make a tray of chocolate covered peanut butter squares you will need:

150g butter

250g digestives (or chocolate covered ones if you're feeling particularly naughty!)

200g brown sugar (I went for dark brown sugar as it's a deeper flavour than light)

300g crunchy peanut butter

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

100g dark chocolate

100g milk chocolate

Melt 150g of butter in the microwave and pop to one side

Blitz the digestives and brown sugar together (I had to do this in two batches as my blender is only little)

Pour the sugar and biscuit blitz on top of the butter

Add in the 300g of crunchy peanut butter and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Stir this all together and press into a square dish lined with clingfilm (this makes it infinitely easier to lift out for cutting!)

Break up the 100g dark and 100g milk chocolate and melt in the microwave (do this gradually so as not to cause the chocolate to go granular) before then pouring over the pressed base.

Put in the fridge for at least an hour so that it all sets before lifting the clingfilm out and cutting the chocolate peanut butter block into squares

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