Name: Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
Total time: 32 min
Yield: 24 bars
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour; ¾ teaspoons baking soda; ¼ teaspoons salt; ¾ cup unsalted butter 1 1/2 sticks (softened); 1 cup creamy peanut butter; ½ cup sugar; ½ cup packed light brown sugar; 1 large egg; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 12 oz chopped semi sweet chocolate or a bag of chocolate chunks or chips

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

If you’re looking for a no-fuss, one-bowl recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip bars you’ve come to the right place! Just 10 ingredients and only 30 minutes of your time, and you’ll be loving on these bars made with smooth, creamy peanut butter and sweet chocolate chunks.

Total 32 minutes

Serves 24 bars

Desserts

American

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Why this recipe is so popular

Peanut butter and chocolate is a time honored tradition for some. Remember the old Reeses peanut butter cup commercials? “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!” The two ingredients were meant to be together.

Everyone loves easy chocolate chip cookies, but baking them in bar form means they are easily portable! Take the whole pan with you to your next potluck or family get-together.

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Ingredients you will need

Get all measurements, ingredients, and instructions in the printable version at the end of this post.

Dry: all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt
Wet: unsalted butter, creamy peanut butter, sugar, light brown sugar, egg, vanilla
Add ins: chopped semisweet chocolate (or a bag of chocolate chunks or chips), nuts if you want them

How to Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

These step by step instructions are here to help explain how to make this recipe. Please scroll down to simply print out the recipe!

Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a 13×9 pan with foil, grease or spray the foil.
Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugars, and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla until well combined. Turn mixer down to low and slowly add in dry ingredients. Turn off mixer and fold in chocolate.
Press cookie dough into prepared pan and bake 20-22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack in pan. When cooled completely, lift out by foil and cut into bars.

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Expert Tips & FAQs

Lining and overlapping the pan either with foil or parchment paper gives you “handles”, making it easy to lift the bars out.

These peanut butter chocolate chunk bars are actually a basicchocolate chip cookie dough with the addition of peanut butter. If you already have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, compare yours to this, then add peanut butter in proportion.

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These chocolate chip bars have been a favorite in this house for years. We love my peanut butter cookies so much, it just made sense to mix the two together. Here are some more of our chocolate chip faves!

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This post was originally published on this blog on March 15, 2011.