Peanut butter bars are a traditional bar that has always enjoyed a cult following. This particular recipe is very easy to make and even easier to indulge in!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and butter and line with parchment a 9X13 baking pan lined with parchment paper in a sling.
The Bars
- 16 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups peanut butter (I used chunky because that is what we had–use what you prefer)
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1.5 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 2 cup flour, sifted
- Melt together butter and peanut butter.
- Set aside to cool to room temperature.
- In a large bowl, sift together sugars and salt.
- Whisk in one egg at a time until combined.
- Add in vanilla.
- Whisk in the peanut butter mixture until combined.
- Sift in the flour and mix until the flour just disappears.
- Pour into prepared pan and bake until tester comes out with moist crumbs (about 35 minutes).
Icing
- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
- 1/4 cup peanut butter, melted
- Milk (amount depends on the desired thickness of icing–start with a couple of tablespoons and go from there).
- Once bars have cooled, flip out onto a cooling rack fitted into a cookie sheet (to catch the icing).
- Mix icing ingredients until of desired consistency.
- Drizzle over bars.
- Let icing set up and cut.