Recipe Renovation: Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars

If you click the "older posts" button a few times, you will find a recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.  When I wanted peanut butter bars awhile back, and decided to transform that recipe into the peanut butter bars I craved. With just a few simple changes, the recipe turned out pretty great.

To turn your cookies into bars, double the original recipe , omitting the chocolate chips from the mixture, and adding 1 cups of quick oats to the dough.  Once you have done that, press the dough onto the bottom of a greased cookie sheet, and bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

Cooked dough.

While that is cooling it gives you ample time to make the "frosting". Ingredients: 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 1/2 cup peanut butter 2 cups powdered sugar 10 TBS milk Melt the chocolate chips(they would have gone into the dough, had you been making the cookies), and set aside. With an electric mixer, mix together the peanut butter and the powdered sugar. It will form a strange granular mixture. Once they are combined, add in the melted chocolate.

Starting to add the chocolate.

After mixing the chocolate in, it will still look like a strange granular mixture... You will feel much better once you start adding the milk, so do so, a few tablespoons at a time, until it reaches a good spreading consistency. 

About to mix in the milk.

Finished frosting.

Spread mixture on top of the giant cooled cookie

Good enough to eat.

Cut the giant cookie into bars and enjoy! A tasty peanut butter bar, with slight healthy twist. Granted, the frosting probably cancels out the healthier thing, but hey, it's tasty, which is kind of the point.