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How can we use this horrible chocolate peanut butter?

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Glovesandscarf · 28/09/2021 05:49

While earth chocolate hazelnut peanut butter. It’s not chocolatey, it doesn’t taste much of hazelnuts and it isn’t nice peanut butter!!
Any ideas for using it up? I hope that warming or cooking it might bring flavours up more. I can put extra chocolate in. There’s rather a lot for just peanut butter cookies, although I could make some of those too.

Ideas welcomed.

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lannistunut · 28/09/2021 05:58

I would just use it in baking e.g. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/peanut-butter-cake

Justanotherquestioner · 28/09/2021 05:59

I'd put it I some porridge

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Glovesandscarf · 28/09/2021 06:09

Thank you for finding some more sensible recipes. Am not ruining good porridge with it tho!

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Perching · 28/09/2021 06:20

Mix with bird seed and feed it to the birds? (Assuming there are no nasties in)

Billandben444 · 28/09/2021 06:30

Bin it. Probably not particularly good for you underneath any hype anyway. Replace with Nutella or the yummy one with the plastic flip-off lid.

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Glovesandscarf · 28/09/2021 06:30

I’d expect it to taste nicer if there were nasties tbh 😂
But yes, bird, or squirrel food may also feature. Bloody expensive bird food though.

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Tabbypawpaw · 28/09/2021 06:34

How funny, we have the same problem. I bought it as a treat for the children but after one piece of toast they’ve refused another bite! It’s been sag in the cupboard for months and DH keeps threatening to Chuck it out but I promise I’ll bake with it!

YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp · 28/09/2021 07:11

Bin it or give to a neighbour?

BikeRunSki · 28/09/2021 07:14

There was a guy on Bake Off last week who did a hazjenut, chocolate buttercream. Use it for that - add butter, sugar, chocolate?

InMySpareTime · 28/09/2021 07:14

The jar I had all the chocolate had sunk to the bottom, so the first half of the jar was just salty, greasy, gritty peanut butter, then the last bit was very sugary chocolate.
I daresay it would go nicely in rocky road or instead of butter in cookies, but I just left it for DH to use up. He will not buy any more.

krj2608 · 28/09/2021 07:18

Possibly in a brownie?

Plumedenom · 28/09/2021 07:19

I bought something similar in Lidl by mistake once instead of peanut butter. We have it all away! It was awful!

lljkk · 28/09/2021 07:51

By the spoonful mixed with honey.
I humbly submit there is lack of imagination.

MrsEricBana · 28/09/2021 08:01

Dump. Life is too short.

hairybakers · 28/09/2021 08:11

Instead of viewing throwing it out as a waste I'd bin it because putting it in anything else when it tastes so shit is actually a waste of all the other ingredients too!

And let this be a lesson learnt, yummy but healthy choc peanut butter just does not exist Grin

OldEvilOwl · 28/09/2021 09:06

Just chuck it

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Glovesandscarf · 28/09/2021 09:11

@InMySpareTime

The jar I had all the chocolate had sunk to the bottom, so the first half of the jar was just salty, greasy, gritty peanut butter, then the last bit was very sugary chocolate. I daresay it would go nicely in rocky road or instead of butter in cookies, but I just left it for DH to use up. He will not buy any more.
In the spirit of investigation I drilled down to the bottom & can confirm it’s horrid all the way down.
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Branleuse · 28/09/2021 09:13

Any peanut butter that is healthy is gross. I gave up trying

BranchyBranch · 28/09/2021 09:16

Just bin it. It's not a waste. Or, the waste occured when the manufacturer used ingredients to make nasty food, at some point prior to you owning the stuff.

Breathmiller · 28/09/2021 09:26

I usually like this sort of thing but even I drew the line. You're right, it was neither chocolaty or peanutty.
Could you make energy balls?
Dates, peanuts whizzed. Add (crappy non chocolaty) peanut butter, milk, raw cacoa and vanilla. Whizz. Then make into balls and put in the freezer. I jist made them last night. Delicious for breakfast with coffee

Burgerqueenbee · 28/09/2021 09:36

I had a different branded natural chocolate peanut butter, thought I was buying a treat when I got it....like yours it was vile, and I recently tried to use it in peanut butter cookies thinking the sugar would work some sort of magic but no, the cookies went in the bin too - I think it was too greasy to make cookies with so worth considering if yours is like that too.

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Glovesandscarf · 28/09/2021 09:53

Update - it made acceptable peanut butter cookies. Not great, but okay. Ive made nicer peanut butter cookies with normal peanut butter, but it does seem to have brought some sort of flavour up.

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Mumdiva99 · 28/09/2021 11:01

Darn it I was going to ask to swap it with my jar of Honey chocolate spread - just honey and cocoa.....practically a health food. But the kids don't like it. It's too runny for sarnies and they don't like it in porridge either.

Pancakeorcrepe · 28/09/2021 11:06

I had the same issue with the exact same peanut butter and made some balls to feed to the birds 🕊