Everyone’s Favorite
Peanut Bar Recipe
Creating a perfect blend of chocolate and peanut butter, this peanut bar 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 recipe comes from Good Housekeeping Favorite Recipes Cookies! published by Hearst Books.