Bar Hopping: Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Topped Bar Cookies Recipe

If I were, on this very day, pressed to answer the question "what treat would you most enjoy eating until you descend into morbid obesity?" I would have a ready answer: Peanut butter and Chocolate Chip-Topped Bar Cookies.

It all happened recently while baking the "Dream Bars" from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book and realizing that--duh--I basically had none of the ingredients for the top layer, which was meant to be made up of an almond-coconut topping. So there I was, with a somewhat sad expanse of beige batter for a bar cookie base.

Turning to my pantry (OK, my cabinet), I found half a jar of old-fashioned chunky peanut butter and half a bag of milk chocolate chips. Yes! In the mix they both went, scattered irregularly on top of the batter.

The result? Something lovely and amazing. Moist blondie-esque cookie bars with pockets of gooey-crunchy peanut butter and smooth, delicious chocolate. Something you won't...be...able...to...stop...eating. And if you don't like them? No problem, I'll finish the tray for you.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip-Topped Bar Cookies

adapted from Betty Crocker's Cooky Book

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 jar (about a cup) peanut butter (I used chunky)
• 1/2 bag (about a cup) milk chocolate chips

Procedure

1. Heat oven to 350 F.
2. Mix the butter and sugar thoroughly. Stir in flour. Press and flatten with hand to cover the bottom of a parchment-lined oblong pan, 13x9-ish. 
3. Bake 10 minutes, then spread with the topping (irregularly spooned globs of peanut butter and a sprinkling of chocolate chips).
4. Return to the oven and bake for 25 minutes more, or until golden brown. Cool slightly, then cut into bars. Makes about 20.

Comments

[Wei-Wei]

Wow. It's awesome to just... plop it on there! Yum?!

Wei-Wei

[apparentlyjessy]

I am going to try this recipe today!

[Phoebe]

that looks amazingly good!

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[apparentlyjessy]

Ok, I made it and it tasted pretty good! If I made it again though, I would use self raising flour, and less peanut butter! For some reason our Australian peanut butter didn't ooze or spread, just stayed in the clumps I dolloped on there!

[Kirsten]

Made these last night. They're certainly easy enough! I think they might be a little better with the chocolate chips baked into the bar instead of sprinkled on top. Next time I might even add some peanut butter chips, as well!

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