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Extreme Fudgy Peanut Butter Brownies

Modified: Jan 3, 2025 · Published: Sep 15, 2011 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 10 Comments

Also known as Buckeye Brownies or in some cases Marbled Brownies, Peanut Butter Brownies are fudgy brownies with either a thin or thick layer of peanut butter on top. Or sometimes it's swirled through. Usually the ones called Buckeye Brownies (named after the famous Ohio candy) have the peanut butter layer on the top. Here's a list of some of the peanut butter brownies I've tried.

Frosted Peanut Butter Brownies aka Lucy's Brownies

When I first posted this I had not tried the Joanna Gaines -- Southern Living -- Lucy's recipe for Magnolia Brownies. Well, now I have. It's a good one! Of the ones on this list it's most like Dorie's. Here's the list.  The first and second both start with brownie mix and the last two are scratch.  So let's get started.

Duncan Hines Brownies -- Very Good!

The Duncan Hines Extreme Peanut Butter Brownie recipe is super easy and very good. To be honest, I didn't expect doctored brownie mix peanut butter brownies to be that great, but these were surprisingly awesome.  At one point the recipe was on the Duncan Hines USA site, but now I can only find it on Canada's site. 

peanut butter brownies

An Over the Top Brownie Recipe We Love

I will never get tired of these Marshmallow Krispie Topped Brownies. They're a little over-the-top, but that's fine by me.

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Dorie Greenspan's Brownies

No surprise here given the source. Dorie Greenspan's Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie are excellent scratch peanut butter topped chocolate brownies. They deserve a new photo so I'll have to make them again. Darn.

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Base is Peanut Butter and Chocolate is on Top

And then there's this one which I haven't made in a while but is very tasty, Peanut Butter Marble Brownies.  These are different because the base is actually a peanut butter with a chocolate marble section baked in, and a chocolate ganache swirled through the peanut butter topping.

Marbled Peanut Butter Brownie

The Famous Magnolia Recipe in Loaf Pan Form

Here's the link to the Lucy's recipe (pictured at the top). It's a popular one here. I make a smaller batch and use a loaf pan.

There are a lot more where these came from, but the ones on the list were the first to come to mind..

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  1. jess☆ @ Multicultural Melbourne says

    September 21, 2011 at 10:17 pm

    Peanut butter + chocolate = best combination ever. Thank you for yet another brilliant idea for this!!!

  2. Mackenzie@The Caramel Cookie says

    September 18, 2011 at 1:40 pm

    I love brownies with peanut butter! YUM!

  3. Martha in KS says

    September 16, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    I have yet to bake a batch of brownies that are better than a Pillsbury mix. In fact, I just took a pan out of the oven, which I enhanced with walnuts & a creamy, chocolate icing. Mahvelous!

  4. Katrina says

    September 16, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    A little yin and yang is always nice. 😉
    I love those rice crispy ones--if you like pb/chocolate--it just gets better with crispies and mallow.

  5. Erin says

    September 16, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Nom nom nom nom those look so awesome!

  6. Adam says

    September 16, 2011 at 10:04 am

    In theory I don't have a problem with boxed products, but because I don't get to bake often I always like to do things from scratch 🙂 and we also don't always have the same products here :). Regardless, PB + Chocolate brownies will probably be making an appearance on my Thanksgiving menu, and my family will worship me afterwards :). Thanks for the idea :).

    Oh and as Gloria pointed out, we enjoy when you ramble, hell if I'm not rambling I'm probably sleeping (though I have been known to talk in my sleep too :)).

  7. Louise says

    September 16, 2011 at 7:54 am

    In spite of usually doing only baked from scratch, I think I could eat the Duncan Hines brownie if there was ganache instead of their frosting on top. It's good enough for the Emmys, so it should be good enough for me. 🙂

  8. Lisa Ernst says

    September 16, 2011 at 6:07 am

    I agree with Josie -- this is killing me. 🙂 Brownies and peanut butter with a chocolate topping, is there anything better?

  9. Josie says

    September 16, 2011 at 1:26 am

    You are killing me. PB and chocolate is my weakness. My OB is going to shame me once I make these and devour the whole batch. This monthly weigh-in during pregnancy is really cramping my style!

  10. Gloria says

    September 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    I enjoy your rambling..I do the same thing sometimes!... At least here you are among friends-when I used to ramble to my coworkers about baking related technical issues related to what I brought in for them to try, I would watch eyes become glassy and glazed over! I love chocolate and peanut butter together, but I haven't had a brownie with it yet. I'm more of a salty peanut butter with chocolate fan. I wonder if the brownies with taste okay if the peanut butter didn't have any sugar in it? As a matter of fact I think I may try it that way and find out! I hope the weather is better in California than it is here-we had frost last night!

Peanut Butter Fudge Jumbles recipe baked in a 9-inch square Pampered Chef stoneware pan.

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