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Peanut Butter Tarts aka Tagalongs

March 23, 2016 by Quinn Caudill 24 Comments

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Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown away the boxes with my Peanut Butter Tarts aka Tagalongs®. Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust can’t be beaten.

Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

Peanut Butter Tarts aka Tagalongs®

Okay, so every year there is a bomb waiting to go off to ruin my weight loss goals for the New Year. As the New Year rolls around I and many others, decide its time to get off the junk food wagon and get in shape.

Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

But usually, three weeks into the New Year along comes a knock at the door. Little girls with their order forms for those yummy GS cookies. One of my favorite girl scout cookies is the “Tagalongs®” or Peanut Butter Patty.

What a perfect combination: shortbread cookie and peanut butter, covered in chocolate. Does it get any better? Well, I think it does with my recipe for Peanut Butter Tarts “Tagalongs”. Why do you say? Instead of sitting there on the couch, feeling guilty about eating the whole box of cookies, with my tarts you can tell everyone you ate just one. See no guilt!!

Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

I belong to a monthly dinner group with three couples. We rotate host homes each month and the host decides on the theme. We have been getting together for over 16 years. That is a lot of themes and plenty of good food. For 2016 we are using cities as our theme. This month was San Francisco because of the Super Bowl.

The host couple cooks the main dish and the other couples bring either a soup/salad, appetizer or dessert. We were desert this month so I decided to combine San Francisco most famous chocolate Ghiradelli, with the timeliness of Girl Scout Cookie’s to come up with this incredible Peanut Butter Tarts “Tagalongs”.

Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

Oh, my these were a hit. The recipe has quite a few steps, but all are easy to accomplish and well worth it. I made the crust using thin chocolate wafers from Nabisco. These were not easy to find at my grocery because they were at the end of the ice cream aisle with the chocolate and caramel toppings.

You could substitute any other chocolate cookie but these wafers are perfect for pie crusts. The filling is simply peanut butter and confectioner’s sugar.

For the topping, I made a simple ganache using Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate and heavy cream. Hey, I never said it was low-fat. Okay so you could stop there and Peanut Butter Tarts aka Tagalongs® would be a perfect dessert but why, when you can add white chocolate bark and peanut butter crumbles.

What is peanut butter crumbles you ask? Well, they are a perfect combination of peanut butter, confectioners’ sugar, roasted peanuts and a little butter, mixed together and frozen.

Think of it as the oat crumb topping you would put on an apple crisp but in peanut butter form. I could have eaten a bowl of just the crumbles. I am sure I will think of many more uses for them.

Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

So if you need to satisfy your Girl Scout cookie fix since they have stopped selling them and you know you have already eaten your stash should definitely give my Peanut Butter Tarts aka Tagalongs® a try!

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Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.
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Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs"
Prep Time
40 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 
Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 6
Author: Quinn Caudill
Ingredients
Crust:
  • 1 9 oz. package chocolate wafer cookies about 40. I used Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers,
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
Peanut Butter Filling:
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup confectioners' sugar
Chocolate Ganache:
  • 1 (12 oz.) bag Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
Peanut Butter Crumbles:
  • 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup roasted peanuts
  • 1 tbsp. butter, melted
White Chocolate Bark: (optional)
  • 1 (12 oz.) bag Ghirardelli White Melting Wafers or almond bark
  • 3 oz. semisweet chocolate, melted
Instructions
For crust:
  1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
  2. Lightly coat six, 4-inch-diameter tart pans with removable bottom, with cooking spray.
  3. Place cookies in food processor and process until fine crumbs form.
  4. Pour in butter and pulse until moist clumps form.
  5. Press cookie mixture onto bottom and up sides of prepared tart pans.
  6. Bake until set, about 7-10 minutes.
  7. Cool completely.
Peanut Butter Filling:
  1. In a medium bowl mix together confectioners sugar and peanut butter with a mixer until it makes a thick paste. Roll into six individual balls. Chill until ready to assemble.
Chocolate Ganache:
  1. Place chocolate in a large bowl
  2. In a heavy bottom pot, bring the cream to just a simmer. DO NOT BOIL.
  3. Pour cream over chocolate and allow to sit for 1 minute.
  4. Whisk the cream and chocolate until smooth.
White Chocolate Bark: (optional)
  1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Place Ghirardelli White Melting Wafers into microwave safe bowl. Microwave on 50% power for 1 minute. Stir and continue melting in 15-second increments until completely melted.
  3. Spread in a thin layer on prepared baking sheet.
  4. Melt semisweet chocolate in the microwave for 1 minute until melted. Place in ziplock-bag or pastry bag. Clip corner and swirl over white bark. Cool completely.
Peanut Butter Crumbles:
  1. In bowl used to make peanut butter filling, mix together confectioners sugar, peanut butter, roasted peanuts, and butter, until mixed and crumbly. Freeze for 30 minutes to set. Set aside.
To Assemble Tart:
  1. Flattened 1 ball of peanut butter filling into a disk and place on a cool tart crust.
  2. Pour chocolate ganache over peanut butter filling disk. Repeat with remaining tarts.
  3. Cool for 2 hours before serving.
Recipe Notes

By Quinn Caudill for DadWhats4Dinner.com © 2016
First published on ADishofDailyLife.com 02/23/2016

 

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Keep your Girl Scout cookie fix going long after you have thrown the boxes away with my Peanut Butter Tarts "Tagalongs" . Peanut butter, chocolate, and a chocolate wafer crust, can't be beat.

 If peanut butter isn’t your thing, you might want to try my Caramel Brownie Bar DeLites for another Girl Scout cookie favorite or my Whoopie Pies perfect for spring celebrations.

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An alternative to store bought Easter candy, these Whoopee Pies would be the perfect treat from the "Bunny".

Filed Under: Dessert, Kid Friendly, recipe Tagged With: Dessert, Ghirardelli, King Arthur Flour

About Quinn Caudill

"Quinn is the author, photographer and recipe designer over at DadWhats4Dinner. He enjoys cooking for family and friends and being creative in the kitchen. He makes ordinary everyday food extraordinary. He lives just north of Cincinnati with his wife of 24 years, three kids and three cats. His kids have well-developed palates and his youngest daughter is now working with him on the blog creating recipes for her own page "Cooking with Ella". Follow him on: Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram."

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Comments

  1. showmetheyummy says

    March 24, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    These tarts are HEAVEN! Tagalongs are my weakness. 🙂

    Reply
    • Quinn Caudill says

      March 24, 2016 at 8:24 pm

      They are as good as they look. Thanks for stopping by.

      Reply
  2. thebetterbaker11 says

    March 25, 2016 at 8:51 am

    These are gorgeous to look at and I’m sure they are mighty tasty. How I’d love to be in a dinner club with you and get to sample the awesome dishes you make. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Weekend Potluck. Pinning! Excited about your daughter having a blog too…obviously, she has a great teacher. How fun. May you and yours enjoy a wonderful Easter weekend.

    Reply
  3. Hilda says

    March 25, 2016 at 11:59 am

    These are definitely designed for the chocolate and peanut butter lovers, of which I am one. Hats off to the Girl Scout cookie makers for inspiring this wonderful creation.

    Reply
    • Quinn Caudill says

      March 25, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      Yes I shouldn’t be so hard on the great organization of the Girl Scouts. :)))

      Reply
  4. trishlee75 says

    March 26, 2016 at 12:33 am

    Looks gorgeous and delicious!

    Reply
  5. FrugalHausfrau says

    March 28, 2016 at 11:50 pm

    What a fun recipe and looks crazy crazy good! Or cray cray as my son would say. No he wouldn’t because he’d be stuffing his face with these, lol! Great recipe Quinn!

    Reply
    • Quinn Caudill says

      March 28, 2016 at 11:53 pm

      I was told never to say that NY my daughter’s. ?

      Reply
      • FrugalHausfrau says

        March 29, 2016 at 9:57 am

        lol!

        Reply
        • Quinn Caudill says

          March 29, 2016 at 10:17 am

          to say that by my daughters

          Reply
          • FrugalHausfrau says

            March 29, 2016 at 10:43 am

            I knew right where that comment was going. I’ve been banned from saying things, too, and groaned at a lot!!

  6. CrumblesAndKale says

    March 29, 2016 at 10:26 am

    These looks spectacular and contains pretty much everything that make me weak at my knees 😉

    Reply
    • Quinn Caudill says

      March 29, 2016 at 10:46 am

      Wow I haven’t heard that in a while. Been married for 24 years. :))))

      Reply
      • CrumblesAndKale says

        March 29, 2016 at 10:47 am

        That is awesome! Congratulations. Your wife probably have gotten used to the weak knees so she doesn’t notice it then 😉 Haha.

        Reply
  7. Natalie Browne says

    March 30, 2016 at 12:58 pm

    I’m drooling over these and it’s not even 10am, yet. They look delicious, Quinn!

    Reply
  8. Beverly says

    March 31, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    These look so delicious! I love all of the flavor combinations. I’m sharing all over. Thanks for sharing at Snickerdoodle Sunday. I’ll be featuring your Peanut Butter Tart Tagalongs at Saturday’s party.

    Reply
  9. Julie is Hostess At Heart says

    January 27, 2017 at 6:18 pm

    This is one delicious recipe. I have a PB round up coming up and I’ll drop back and grab this one if it’s o.k. with you? Have a great weekend my friend!

    Reply
    • Quinn Caudill says

      January 28, 2017 at 9:15 am

      Of course you can!

      Reply
  10. Sherry says

    February 5, 2017 at 6:21 pm

    I can’t live without peanut butter…and chocolate! Thanks for sharing with us at Funtastic Friday.

    Reply

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