Peanut Butter Pattie Fun Dip

The classic Girl Scout cookie in dip form.

Creamy, sweet, crunchy. Need I say more?

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If you are on Facebook at all, I'm sure you've seen the posts that read something like this:

My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies! They are taking over my laundry room! Please buy a box so I don't eat them all!

Yeah, I fell into that trap too. But I meant too. Each year I buy a box or two {or three}, mainly because I feel like it is my civic duty as an American. But also because they are so damn good. My favorites are the caramel delights {or samoa}, thin mints or the peanut butter delights {or tagalongs}.

i.e. they have different names depending on where in the country they are made. I know, who knew right? Thanks Michelle, for clarifying.

So when my friend Ellie, an editor at Taste of Home magazine, emailed me saying they were having a Girl Scout Cookie Recipe Contest.....well, you know me, I just HAD to take part. Any excuse to make a dessert with cookies.

As I was photographing this dish and snacking on it {you know, to make sure it was edible} I keep telling myself a few things.

It's healthy!

I'm eating it with apples!

A few bites are just a couple Weight Watchers points!

I'm not sure any of that is true, but it made me feel better. At least, I wasn't like the husband, who asked me the next morning "what was I 'supposed' to eat with that good dip in the fridge"?

Umm, apples darling.

"Whoops, I just ate it by the spoonful"

So, if you have a sleeve of these cookies lying around, make this dip. In fact, any peanut butter cookie would do, but I am partial to the pattie.

And here is an embarrassing tidbit for ya. When I was pregnant with our second child and had a long, tedious, boring desk job, I was known to eat an ENTIRE SLEEVE of thin mints in an afternoon.

The job was boring people. I needed something to fill the time.