Peanut Butter Cookie Bars

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

Cool: 1 hour

Total Time: 2 hours 5 minutes

Servings:

Calories: 189kcal

All the flavor of classic peanut butter cookies in a nice thick bar! Mix and match with your favorite mix-ins!

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Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup unsalted butter melted
3/4 cup natural creamy peanut butter
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips see notes

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 325*F and line a baking pan with parchment (or foil). Leave some paper hanging over the sides, so you can easily pull the bars out of the pan after baking. Lightly butter any portion of the pan that is not covered in paper (this should be the two shorter sides of the pan)
In a large mixer, blend together both sugars and warm, melted butter. Blend until well combined, then add peanut butter, eggs (one at a time) and vanilla and continue to blend until fully combined.
In a separate bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Then, while the mixer is on low, slowly add the flour to the butter/sugar mixture. Stop the mixer immediately when you have added all the flour.
Add chocolate chips (or chips of your choice) and blend until just combined.
Scoop dough into prepared pan and spread with an off-set spatula (the surface should be level before baking).
Bake 35-40 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and there is no wet batter visible.
Remove from oven and allow to cool FULLY before cutter (1 hour or more). For easiest cutting, run a knife around any edges of the bars that are touching the sides of the pan, then pull up on the parchment paper and place the giant bar on a cutter board. Cut with a serrated knife, wiping off between cuts as needed.

Notes

Feel free to mix and match with "chips" of your choice, mini chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and mini peanut butter cups would all be great choices.

I used Challenge butter, but feel free to use any high quality brand of your choice.

I used natural peanut butter, which contains only peanuts and a bit of salt. If you are using peanut butter with added sugar, you may want to reduce the sugar in the the recipe just a bit.

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