Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars Recipe
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars Recipe
These Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars are sweet, soft, chewy and SO peanut buttery! Bake the batch in one pan, so you get 36 bars all at once. No waiting for batches of cookies to bake when you make these bars!
I made the most delicious peanut butter cookie bar recipe for you! The. Most. Delicious. I seriously cannot stop eating these little bars of peanut butter deliciousness. Peanut butter is one of my biggest weaknesses, and combine it with a cookie batter, I can’t stop. Won’t stop. I hope you enjoy this easy cookie bar recipe as much as we do!
About These Peanut Butter Cookie Bars:
If you are a peanut butter lover, then you will love these Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars. These cookie bars are sweet, soft, and so peanut buttery. Bake them in an 9 x 9 inch pan, then cut the cookie slab into about 36 squares. But really, you can cut them as big or small as you like. There’s just something so great about making cookies in an easy cookie bar form…everything is done and made in one batch.
Want Soft and Chewy Cookie Bars?
If you like your cookies soft and chewy, the key is to slightly under bake them. The same tip applies to these peanut butter cookie bars. We LOVE our cookies and bars soft and chewy, and under baking them makes them just perfect.
Peanut Butter Cookie Bars Recipe Tips
- PEANUT BUTTER: Use creamy peanut butter or crunchy peanut butter. I have never made these with natural peanut butter (or any other type of nut butter) so I’m not sure if that would work.
- PEANUT BUTTER CHIPS: If you don’t have peanut butter chips, you can easily substitute them with chocolate chips (milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips) or even Reese’s pieces or white chocolate chips…then you will have Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars…yum!
- ADD-INS: You can add chopped nuts too (chopped peanuts, pecans or walnuts).
- STORAGE: Store these bars in an airtight container at room temperature for about 4 days. They will dry out if left out too long.
- FREEZING: These cookie bars freeze well. Keep in an airtight container or plastic freezer bag in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- SERVING IDEA: These delicious bars are perfect on their own, but if you want to serve them as a dessert, add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and you’ve got crowd pleaser dessert bars! Yum.
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter at room temperature
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup quick cooking oats
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup peanut butter chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- Line a 9 x 9 square baking pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter, peanut butter, and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the egg and vanilla.
- In a separate large bowl whisk together the flour, oats, baking soda and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and combine.
- Stir in the peanut butter chips.
- Spread the cookie dough into the baking pan, making sure it is smooth and level.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes, or until the centre looks set and the edges are golden brown. See notes.
- Cool on a wire rack before cutting.
Notes
Recipe slightly adapted from Taste of Home
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I hope you enjoy these chewy peanut butter cookie bars…it’s definitely a keeper!
Have a delicious day!
the bars sound great. Would it be a sin to sub chocolate chips for the peanut butter chips?
Who can resist peanut butter? These look amazing!
Thank you Julie!
I should make this for my son’s birthday, he loves peanut butter. Thanks for posting. Hello from Project Inspired.
Look delicious! i want to buy some 😀
Look delicious!
Making these now I’m so excited to try them thank you !
I made these and the taste is amazing, but they just fell apart on me. I’m not sure what I did wrong. ?
These were by far the best pb cookies I’ve ever had!!! Made exactly as the recipe instructed and they came out perfect! Thanks so much!!
I’m so happy you enjoyed them Leslie!