Chocolate and Peanut Butter Ribbon Dessert

Just love Nutter Butters and so when I found this recipe that included my little passions, I just had to give it a try. Fabulous!!

• Ready In: 4 hrs 15 mins
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 12  Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
• 2  tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1⁄2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 12  ounces Cool Whip, divided
• 2  ounces  semi-sweet chocolate baking squares, melted

Directions

1. Crush 8 of the cookies in a resealable plastic bag. Mix cookie crumbs with butter and press onto bottom of foil-lined 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2. Mix cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gently stir in 3 cups cool whip.
3. Spoon 1/2 cup of the cream cheese mixture into a small bowl. Stir in melted chocolate until well blended. Set aside.
4. Spoon 1/2 of the remaining cream cheese mixture over crust. Top evenly with chocolate mixture. Cover with remaining cream cheese mixture. Freeze 4 hours or overnight until firm.
5. Invert onto plate. Remove foil and then reinvert onto serving platter so that crumb layer is on the bottom.
6. Coarsely break the remaining 4 cookies. Top dessert with remaining cool whip and cookies.