"Chocolate Lover's" Candy Recipe

Have you ever heard of Chocolate Charlie? It is a candy only available at Christmas time in the Michiana area.

My son n' law makes his own version of chocolate charlie. His ingredients include chocolate chips, large marshmallows, caramel and peanuts. This past Christmas my daughter asked him not to add the caramel, so he used peanut butter instead. He throws it all together without measuring any of the ingredients. It is Scrumpdillyicious!

It was so good I started playing with the recipe to get exact measurements to make sure it turned out good every time. Here is the recipe. It is simple and delicious and the best thing is you can have it anytime of the year, not just Christmas.

To tell you how much I love chocolate, my neice bought me two t-shirts. One reads: Chocolate... here today...gone tomorrow, the other reads: Forget Love...I'd rather fall in Chocolate. The later is my favorite.

Ingredients:

1 - 12 oz. Bag milk chocolate, chocolate chips. (you may use semi sweet if you prefer)

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup dry roasted salted peanuts

1 ½ cups miniature marshmallows

Heat chocolate chips in large pan over meduim until melted.

Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter until well blended.

Add peanuts and mix well.

Add miniature marshmallows and mix well.

Pour into 13 x 9 inch pan lined with wax paper.

Cool in fridge for about 3 hours.

When cool pull the wax paper out of pan and place on cutting board.

Cut into squares, put in air tight container and keep refrigerated.

Hope you enjoy as much as we do!

I do not have a picture at this time, but I will take one next time I make it.