Happy New Year everyone, I hope you are looking forward to a year filled with whatever you wished for, excitement, prosperity, success or maybe for a year of new experiences. Whatever you wished for I hope they come true 😀 This recipe I’m sharing with you today is a twist on a traditional Scottish dessert cranachan (pronounced kran-e-kan) with a peanut butter twist. Peanut Butter Cranachan!















Peanut Butter Bash

Peanut Butter Bash















Peanut Butter Cranachan











































So it’stime again,I hear you ask? Its a lovely group of bloggers who each month make a sweet treat using peanut butter and a mystery ingredient. Decembers mystery ingredient was Oatmeal. Strange as it may seem I really struggled with this ingredient, I wasn’t in a cookie mood, as post the holidays I was all cookie’d out. I didn’t fancy peanut butter oatmeal, which I love but didn’t want to make it and I had already posted PB granola . I was a bit stuck to be honest!Then inspiration hit, Michael and I were out for a meal when my mum and dad were up in Scotland visiting us. My mum ordered cranachan off the dessert menu saying she had never tried it before. Perfect! Cranachan has toasted oats in it so all I had to do was add peanut butter into it and I would have aand the bash challenge would be met.I stuck to a traditional recipe of whipped cream, raspberries, honey, whisky and toasted oats. Some recipes ask you to soak the oats in the whisky some don’t; I went with not doing it as I wanted my oats to remain crunchy. This dessert needs to be made and served immediately to keep the oats crunchy. Some people suggest the components of this recipe should be served at the table in small bowls and people would then construct their own dessert so everything remained crunchy. I just made all the components before dinner, then a few minutes before serving I put it all together. I used rolled oats, but feel free to use pinhead or jumbo all will be delicious. For those that are interested here is a little blurb about cranachan via Wikipedia Do you want to join in on the peanut butter bash fun? If so, email Miranda at miranda@cookiedoughandovenmitt.com and request to join the Peanut Butter Bash facebook group ! The first Thursday of each month we post a dessert with peanut butter and a mystery ingredient. Here are the other peanut butter and oatmeal creations!



