Chocolate and Peanut Butter Ribbon Dessert
12 Nutter Butter cookies, divided
2 TB butter, melted
1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 tub Cool Whip whipped topping, thawed, divided (OR you can be awesome like me and just whip your own. Whip 2 cups of heavy cream and you are on your way to Legit Whipped Cream City.)
2 squares baking chocolate, melted
Crush 8 cookies finely; mix with butter. Press onto bottom of foil lined 9x5 inch loaf pan.
Beat next 4 ingredients with mixer until well blended. Whisk in 3 cups whipped cream; spoon 1/2 cup into small bowl. Blend in melted chocolate (to the 1/2 cup in the small bowl). Spoon half of the remaining cream cheese mixture over crush; top with chocolate mixture and then top that with the rest of the cream cheese mixture.
Freeze 4 hours or until firm. Invert onto plate. Remove foil, then re-invert dessert onto serving platter so crumb layer is on bottom. Coarsely break remaining cookies. Top dessert with remaining whipped cream and broken cookies.
*Let me just tell you right now, I HATE doing dishes. The only thing I hate more is doing laundry. Anyways, I let this freeze overnight, and because of the foil lining and how hard it had set, I was able to set this on the serving platter and just peel off the foil. I didn't see the need to use the "middle man" plate before the serving dish. Why dirty an extra dish?!!?
On the right, you'll see your standard smothered in foil bread pan. That's buttery, cookie, crushed goodness there on the left and a good 'ol whackin' stick in the middle (aka my rolling pin).
Here are the peanut butter and whipped cream! Hindsight is 20/20; I should've taken a picture of the chocolate mixture as well... Special thanks to HEB for adding the spout/lid onto their heavy cream containers! If I had a gold star, you would be getting it.
This is what it'll look like before going in the freezer. I covered it with plastic wrap.
Isn't that yummy looking? It is. This is only half of the one I made. The other half went downstairs to the missionaries.