Plentiful Peanut Bar Cookie Recipe

Creating a perfect blend of chocolate and peanut butter, this peanut bar cookie recipe is a sweet experience from start to finish. Enjoy these cookies as they are or with vanilla ice cream.

Base

Quick-cooking oats	1/3 cup
uncooked
All purpose flour	1 cups
Light brown sugar, packed	1/3 cup
Butter, softened	4 Tbsp
Chunky peanut butter	3 Tbsp

Topping

Eggs	3 large
Light molasses	4 tsp
Light brown sugar, packed	½ cup
Chunky peanut butter	1/3 cup
Unsalted butter, softened	4 Tbsp
All purpose flour	2/3 cup
Baking powder	2 tsp.
Salt	½ tsp
Semisweet chocolate chips	1 cup
Cocktail peanuts, chopped	1 cup

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., and grease a 13" x 9" baking pan.

• Mix together, at low speed, all ingredients for cookie base.

• Press dough evenly onto bottom of prepared pan and bake for 15 minutes.

• While cookie base is baking, combine eggs, molasses, brown sugar, peanut butter, and softened butter until well blended.

• Fold in the dry ingredients - flour, salt, and baking powder.

• With a spoon, stir in chopped peanuts and chocolate chips.

• Spread this mixture evenly over hot crust, and bake for another 40 minutes or until golden.

• Cool completely in baking pan on wire racks before cutting.

Idea for this peanut bar cookie recipe comes from Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes Cookies! published by Hearst Books.