Peanut Butter Cup Trifle Dessert

There is no way in the world I should be sharing this with you BUT since I do admit I am totally human and do love a little sweetness in my life, I thought it was only fair.  Besides, everyone should taste this dessert and I said TASTE, not devour!  It was a little taste of heaven, where I am convinced calories do not matter!  Make sure you save this dessert for a group of people, we got a good 8 servings out of it (but they were a little on the generous side! should probably serve more like 10- 12 I'm guessing.  Anyway, enough of that, here it is!  You can find the original recipe here but here is my version.  I also do not have a trifle bowl, but my glass bowl is still pretty good.

Peanut Butter Cup Trifle Dessert

9x13 pan of brownies (cut into 1 inch pieces)...I had some frozen leftover ones...perfect use for them!
2 small boxes vanilla instant pudding (I used one regular, one sugar free just because that's what I had!)
3 cups milk
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (I used natural of course) see...healthy!!
2 tsp vanilla
8 oz container of cool whip, thawed and divided (I used fat free, but that's what I always have) and having a little extra is nice too...I actually used a 1/2 cup or so extra that I had from another container.
10 regular size peanut butter cups, chopped (recipe calls for 20...we had 10 leftover from Halloween, I used 10 and there were PLENTY in there!)
5-10 bite sized pb cups for garnish and/OR
shaved dark chocolate (honestly, I shaved 2 dark chocolate kisses)

-Combine pudding and milk, whisk together for about 2 min.  Add peanut butter and vanilla, whisk (or beat) til smooth.  Gently fold in 2 cups cool whip.
-Layer in trifle dish:  1/2 the brownies, 1/2 chopped pb cups, 1/2 pudding mixture and repeat.  Top with cool whip and shaved chocolate or more pb cups.  Chill until serving.

When I served this I sliced up the small pb cups in half and put a half on top of each individual bowl...just enough to make it pretty!!

Take the time and enjoy it but make sure you got in a workout that morning and get one in the next morning as well :)  (now, I feel a little better about sharing this!)