Peanut butter bars: Peanut butter bar cookies topped with layers of creamy milk cholcolate, peanut butter icing and chopped nuts.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Peanut Butter Bars
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 40 minutesminutes
Servings 242-inch Bars
Calories 180kcal
Author Adapted From The "Taste Of Oregon" Cookbook
Ingredients
1/2cup peanut butter
1/2 cupbutter
1/2cupgranulated sugar
1/2cupbrown sugar
1egg
1/2teaspoonvanilla
1cupflour
1/4teaspoonbaking soda
1/4teaspoonsalt
1cuprolled oats
10ouncesmilk chocolate chips (I used Ghiradelli)
2/3cuppowdered sugar
1/4cuppeanut butter
3-4tablespoonsmilk
1/2cupchopped peanuts or mixed nuts
Instructions
Cream 1/2 cup peanut butter, butter and sugars together. Add egg and vanilla. Add all dry ingredients, blending well. Spread dough into a buttered 9x13-inch pan and bake at 350 degrees F. for 20-25 minutes.
Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle chocolate chips on top. Let stand 5 minutes, then spread the chocolate chips to cover the bars.
Combine powdered sugar, peanut butter and milk, adding enough milk to make a thin consistency. Drizzle over chocolate layer. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.