There’s an amazing air about the holidays, but it’s also too busy. This year choose to cut out the crazy and make this quick and easy m&m chocolate pizza.
This right here is my childhood every Christmas season. We all would join Mom in the kitchen to help whip up goodies to pile onto a plate to deliver to the neighbors and save a little for us which we stored in tin containers in the storage room out in our garage.
In Utah we call it a cold storage, in Idaho my Grandma calls it a Fruit Room, but no matter what you call it it’s the place where the Christmas candies were stored.
Did you all do that too? arrange a whole bunch of cookies and candies on a plate to deliver to your neighbors? Now days it seems to have evolved into cute pinterest gifts like a bottle of pop and a cute tag or chapstick to be the reindeers nose on a card, but back in the day moms everywhere were slaving away to make 6 different recipes all to share with the neighborhood.
We made Mom’s original Chocolate Pizza (some call is rocky road pizza) her Peanut Butter Balls, and a bunch of other yummies. I vaguely remember making a candy cane cookie that no one was impressed with and never made a reappearance.
But the chocolate pizza was a favorite. It originally calls for coconut and maraschino cherries but we never add those. This year I decided to reinvent a family favorite and we added some peanut butter chips and M&M’s. Those M&M’s made it a billion times better! Chocolate, white chocolate, peanut butter, m&m’s, salty peanuts, squishy marshmallows and an addiction ready to start!
What goodies did you make in your childhood home?
M&M Chocolate Pizza
M&M Chocolate Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Package Semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 pound White almond bark divided
- 1/2 Package Peanut Butter chips
- 2 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1 Cup M&M's
- 3 cups rice krispy cereal
- 1 cup peanuts
Instructions
- Place parchment paper on a pizza pan.
- Microwave chips, almond bark, setting aside 1 ounce white almond bark for later, and peanut butter chips on high 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until smooth.
- In a large bowl stir together marshmallows, cereal and peanuts.
- Add the melted chocolate and stir gently to coat.
- Fold in the m&m's, reserving a few to sprinkle on top along with peanuts and marshmallows.
- Microwave remaining almond bark and drizzle over top.
- Set until hardened in the fridge or in a cool place and cut into wedges like a pizza.
Notes
Nutrition
Original Chocolate Pizza
Mom’s original recipe passed down from her mother is a must as well as this new M&M version.
Peanut Butter Truffles
Peanut butter as smooth as silk is combined with a short list of ingredients to form a delicious truffle dipped in chocolate.
Candy Cane Oreos
The absolute easiest recipe you’ll make all year, candy cane oreos.
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There seems to be an instruction missing after “sprinkle”…and when do you spread on parchment paper? Sounds delicious.
Hi Loli, thanks for catching that. It was just to say to sprinkle a few remaining peanuts and marshmallows as well