Chocolate and peanut butter bars
Crisp cookie crusts, fudge-y chocolate and peanut butter filling, and an explosion of colors. Just perfect for a summer afternoon snack, picnic food or holiday dessert.
Servings 16 dessert bars
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¼ cup sugar
- ½ cup cold butter cut into small cubes
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup multi-colored sugar sprinkles (available in baking supply stores)
- ¼ cup peanut butter morsels
- ⅓ cup dark chocolate morsels
- ½ cup sweetened condensed milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Line the bottom and sides of a 7″x11″ baking pan with non-stick paper.
- In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
- Cut the butter into the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Stir in the egg and sprinkles (the mixture will be loose and crumbly).
- Press two-thirds of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Scatter the peanut butter and chocolate morsels over the crust.
- Pour the condensed milk over everything.
- Sprinkle the remaining crust mixture evenly on top.
- Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Transfer to a rack and cool completely.
- Cut into rectangles or squares.
