Peanut Butter Bars

Peanut Butter Bars takes approximately 40 minutes from beginning to end. One portion of this dish contains roughly 3g of protein, 10g of fat, and a total of 191 calories. This recipe serves 24 and costs 19 cents per serving. It works well as a condiment. 704 people have made this recipe and would make it again. This recipe from Can't Stay out of the Kitchen requires semisweet chocolate chips, creamy peanut butter, sugar, and old fashioned rolled oats. Overall, this recipe earns a not so excellent spoonacular score of 18%. Similar recipes are Peanut butter cookie bars with Reese’s peanut butter eggs, Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Pretzel and Caramel Candy Bars (Homemade Take 5 Bars), and Peanut Butter Caramel Shortbread Bars {millionaire bars}.

Servings: 24

Preparation duration: 15 minutes

Cooking duration: 25 minutes

 

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ cup packed brown sugar

½ cup butter, softened

1 cup confectioners' sugar

½ cup creamy peanut butter

1 egg

1 cup Gold Medal UNLBEACHED all-purpose flour (bleached flour toughens baked goods)

8 tablespoons milk

½ cup old-fashioned rolled oats

¼ teaspoon salt

1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips

½ cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Equipment:

wooden spoon

baking pan

bowl

wire rack

whisk

Cooking instruction summary:

In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugars, peanut butter, egg, vanilla, baking powder and salt until fluffy.Stir in flour and oats with a wooden spoon until combined.Spray a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish with cooking spray.Press peanut butter mixture into dish.Sprinkle with chocolate chips.Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.Combine powdered sugar, peanut butter and half the milk; whisk until as smooth as possible.Add a tablespoon of the remaining milk at a time and stir until you get the right spreading consistency.Use as little of the remaining milk as possible, but I couldn’t get it to have a spreading consistency until I used it all.Drizzle icing over top of bars.Cool completely.Cut into bars.

 

Step by step:


1. In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugars, peanut butter, egg, vanilla, baking powder and salt until fluffy.Stir in flour and oats with a wooden spoon until combined.Spray a 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish with cooking spray.Press peanut butter mixture into dish.Sprinkle with chocolate chips.

2. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.

3. Combine powdered sugar, peanut butter and half the milk; whisk until as smooth as possible.

4. Add a tablespoon of the remaining milk at a time and stir until you get the right spreading consistency.Use as little of the remaining milk as possible, but I couldn’t get it to have a spreading consistency until I used it all.

5. Drizzle icing over top of bars.Cool completely.

6. Cut into bars.


Nutrition Information:

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191k Calories
2g Protein
9g Total Fat
23g Carbs
1% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
191k
10%

Fat
9g
15%

  Saturated Fat
4g
30%

Carbohydrates
23g
8%

  Sugar
16g
19%

Cholesterol
17mg
6%

Sodium
135mg
6%

Caffeine
6mg
2%

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Protein
2g
6%

Manganese
0.27mg
14%

Copper
0.13mg
7%

Magnesium
25mg
6%

Phosphorus
59mg
6%

Selenium
4µg
6%

Vitamin B3
1mg
6%

Iron
0.93mg
5%

Fiber
1g
5%

Vitamin E
0.67mg
4%

Vitamin B1
0.06mg
4%

Folate
15µg
4%

Vitamin B2
0.06mg
3%

Zinc
0.49mg
3%

Potassium
103mg
3%

Vitamin A
139IU
3%

Vitamin B6
0.04mg
2%

Calcium
20mg
2%

Vitamin B5
0.18mg
2%

Vitamin D
0.17µg
1%

covered percent of daily need
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