Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle – Bite sized pieces of brownies layered with peanut butter whipped cream, chocolate peanut butter ganache, and a sprinkling of salted peanuts. Use your favorite brownie recipe (boxed, store bought, or homemade) for these decadent trifles.
Let’s eat Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Trifles and pretend like bathing suit season isn’t just around the corner. OK?
Although I should be sharing recipes for popsicles, or frozen yogurt, or something warm weather friendly, here I am, telling you to layer brownies with peanut butter whipped cream and chocolate ganache. #sorrynotsorry
I needed a special sweet last week for my husband, Jason. He’s a CPA, and he’s spent the last few months working constantly. To celebrate the end of “tax season” (and the fact that I get my husband back!), I always make him a special dessert.
He would have loved for me to make these, but that wasn’t happening (sorry, honey). Instead, I took one of his favorite combos, chocolate + peanut butter, and I made brownie trifles.
Layers of bite-sized chewy brownies, peanut butter whipped cream, and a smooth chocolate peanut butter ganache. The whole thing is topped with salted peanuts, which add the perfect salty/crunchy component.
I made these into individual trifles, but you could totally layer everything in a big bowl or trifle dish. You could even layer it in shot glasses for a two or three bite dessert. This is a rich trifle; a little goes a long way. Just keep that in mind when portioning these into individual dishes.
Also, the person in charge of assembling the trifles has my permission to consume as many brownie cubes dipped in whipped cream and ganache as they want. We’ll call it “quality control.” No one needs to know. 😉
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Recipe
Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownie Trifles
Ingredients
- One 8x8 or 9x9 pan of brownies, baked and cooled and cut into bite sized pieces
Chocolate peanut butter ganache:
- ⅔ cup semisweet chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup creamy peanut butter, at room temperature
- ⅔ cup heavy cream
Peanut butter whipped cream:
- 1 ½ cups cold heavy cream
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter, at room temperature
- ½ cup roasted salted peanuts, chopped
Instructions
Chocolate peanut butter ganache:
- Place the chocolate chips and peanut butter in a large bowl.
- Pour the cream into a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat (do not boil). As soon as it starts to simmer, remove from the heat and pour the cream over the chocolate chips and peanut butter. Allow to sit untouched for 2-3 minutes. Whisk the mixture until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
Peanut butter whipped cream:
- Beat the cream, powdered sugar, and peanut butter with an electric mixer on medium-high speed, until soft peaks form.
Assembly:
- In individual glasses or a trifle dish, layer the brownies, ganache, and whipped cream, repeating the layers and finishing with a sprinkling of peanuts. You can layer them in any order you choose - I did ganache, brownies, whipped cream, ganache, brownies, whipped cream, ganache, peanuts.
- Refrigerate or serve immediately. The ganache will firm up slightly if refrigerated.
Nutrition
Nutritional Information is an estimate based on third-party calculations and may vary based on products used and serving sizes.
Tried this recipe?Leave a comment and rating below!MORE BROWNIE RECIPES:
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Julie @ Julie's Eats & Treats
Your hubs totally deserves a treat after a long tax season! What a perfect dessert!
Celebrating Sweets
Thanks, Julie. 🙂
Cyndi - My Kitchen Craze
These sound wonderful!! And your hubby totally deserves it. I really look up to CPA. I have a friend that is one and he is always crazy busy during tax season. Its nuts the kind of hours he works. This trifle would brighten up my day. Wish I could have one now. 🙂
Celebrating Sweets
Thanks, Cyndi! It’s definitely not a job that I could do. The trifle was well deserved. 😉
Ashley | Spoonful of Flavor
Chocolate and peanut butter is the best way to celebrate the end of tax season! My husband is a huge peanut butter lover and would love these.
Celebrating Sweets
I couldn’t agree more! Thanks for stopping by. 🙂
Karly
This is totally calling my name, so delicious! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Celebrating Sweets
Thanks, Karly!
Sana Batool
Chocolate Peanut butter Trifles is Amazing.
Rose
I want to make this for my kids!
Rachel
I’m trying to make this for 48 dessert shooters. Could you convert the recipe for me? Or do you think I could get away with just doubling it since you did individual trifles?
Celebrating Sweets
Hi, Rachel. Yes, you can double it, although depending on the size of your shooters that might be too much. The dessert shooters I’ve used before are so small, that I barely squeeze a couple bites into each of them. If yours are really small, you could probably get away with one recipe, or at least only one pan of brownies, maybe one and half of the ganache and whipped cream. Enjoy!
Becky Brown
AMAZING! All I did different was put them in holiday cups and added the salted nuts (with redskins) as an extra layer on top of the ganache layer, whipped cream piled high on top and a sprinkle of more salted nuts. Sooo good!
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Carolyn
Have you made this in a trifle bowl? I have a 15 cup trifle bowl. I’d like to make it for an affair a week from now and really don’t want to have to test if first. Will your recipe fill it or will it be sparse? Btw it sounds yuumy!
Allison
I don’t think it will be enough to fill the bowl.