Monday, March 12, 2007

Recipe Monday

As today is the anniversary of Juliette Gordon Low starting the Girl Scouts, I offer to you a recipe that makes use of Girl Scout Cookies, in this case Tagalongs, or peanut butter patties, my favorite. To find the recipe, I "googled" "cooking with girl scout cookies" and found this recipe on the Totem Council Girl Scouts of Northwest Washington webpage.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER PARFAIT:

Filling:
  • 6 individual SoufflĂ© dishes, buttered and lined with wax paper on all sides
  • 8 oz. semi-sweet chocolate
  • 4 tbsp. butter, softened
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 2 boxes Tagalong cookies
  • 2 ½ cups whipping cream
  • 2 tbsp. confectioner’s sugar
  • ½ cup smooth peanut butter
  • chocolate shavings for garnish

Melt chocolate with 2 tbsp. butter in top of double boiler. While chocolate in melting, prepare crust for parfait. CRUST: Finely grind 1-½ boxes of Tagalong cookies. Divide mixture evenly between six prepared molds. Gently pat down cookie mixture to form bottom crust of parfait.

Whip 1 cup whipping cream with ¼ cup sugar and vanilla just until slightly thickened. Add cream mixture to melted chocolate and fold together. Divide chocolate mixture evenly between six molds and tap down lightly.

Whip 1 ½ cups whipping cream with confectioner’s sugar until soft peaks form. Mix peanut butter with 2 tbsp. butter until very smooth and creamy. Fold the 2 mixtures together and divide evenly between the six molds. Smooth tops and tap lightly. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.

Remove from refrigerator at least 30 min. before serving. Place parfait on plate and remove mold. Gently peel away wax paper. Garnish with remaining cookies that have been coarsely chopped and shaved chocolate.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And I just bought some tagalongs, hmmm. I have a source if you need one.

Brave Astronaut said...

I stopped at the grocery store the other day and supported the local girl scouts who were out front, including the girl scout dressed as a thin mint.

My exclamation was that the costume was worth the price of a box alone. I bought four boxes, one tagalong, one thin mint, one samoa, and one all about, which my son proceeded to each four of during our grocery store shopping time.