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:
covered percent of daily need
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