Mom's Chocolate Peanut Buddy Bars

Submitted by JillQH

"This is an old recipe my mom found out of a magazine years ago and cut it out to keep. She wrote "good" on it, so I figure it was worth keeping around all these years!"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 48 bars

ingredients

• 1 cup peanut butter
• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 1⁄4 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 11 1⁄2 ounces chocolate chips, divided

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Beat peanut butter & butter together until smooth, about 1 minute.
3. Add suar, eggs and vanilla, beat until creamy.
4. Blend in flour and salt.
5. Stir in 1 cup of chocolate chips.
6. Spread into ungreased 13x9" baking pan.
7. Bake 25-30 minutes until edges begin to brown.
8. Take out of oven and immediately sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over cookie layer, let stand 5 minutes.
9. Once chips are shiny and soft, spread evenly over whole cookie layer.
10. Cool completely & cut into 1 1/2 inch bars.