Chocolate & Peanut Butter Ribbon Dessert

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Ribbon Dessert

12 Nutter Butter cookies, divided
2 tablespoons melted butter
8 oz. Cream cheese, softened
½ cup creamy peanut butter
½ cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
12 oz. Whipped topping, thawed, divided
2 squares semi-sweet chocolate, melted

Crush 8 cookies finely and mix with butter. Press onto bottom of a foil-lined 9x5” loaf pan. Beat together cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla until well blended. Whisk in 3 cups of thawed whipped topping; spoon ½ cup of mixture into a small bowl and blend in melted chocolate. Spoon half the remaining cream cheese mixture over crust; top with the chocolate mixture. Spoon remaining cream cheese layer over top of chocolate layer. Freeze 4 hours. Invert onto place, remove foil, then invert again on serving plate so crumb layer is on the bottom. Coarsely break remaining cookies; top dessert with remaining whipped topping and broken cookies.