Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars

Submitted by Recipe Junkie

"These are so delicious. Make sure you bring them to a potluck or make them for lots of company - otherwise you'll end up eating the whole pan yourself!"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Yields: 36-48 bars

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 cup packed brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 3⁄4 cups flour
• 1⁄4 cup quick-cooking oats
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 (12 ounce) bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

• Icing

• 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
• 2 tablespoons milk

directions

1. In a mixing bowl, cream butter, sugars and peanut butter.
2. Add egg and vanilla.
3. Mix well.
4. Combine flour, oats, baking soda and salt.
5. Stir into the ceamed mixture.
6. Spread into a greased 9x13" baking pan.
7. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
8. Bake at 350 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
9. Cool 10 minutes (Very important! Otherwise the icing will get mixed up with the crumbs and the bars will look yucky)
10. Combine icing ingredients.
11. Drizzle over bars and smear with chocolate chips to make a chocolate/peanut butter icing.

Reviews

[emilybrown58]

From someone who can't cook anything well, this turned out to be a simple recipe to follow and it turned out sooo good!

 

[LARavenscroft]

These are absolutely to die for! I made them tonight for a carry-in at work tomorrow. It was all I could do to not eat three or four of them when I was taking them out of the pan. I have orders to make them again! And....for those of you who need to avoid wheat, I used Bob's Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Baking Flour and added 1 tsp. of xanthan gum and my wheat eating family couldn't tell the difference!