Peanut Bars
Ingredients
- COOKIE BASE
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1/2 cup Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
- OR 1/2 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 3 tbsps. milk
- 1 1/2 tsps. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 1 large egg
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 2 cups (12 oz. pkg.) peanut butter chips
- DRIZZLE
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 2 to 4 tbsps. milk
Directions
- Step 1
HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat a 13 x 9–inch baking pan lightly with the no-stick cooking spray.
- Step 3
COMBINE shortening, brown sugar, peanut butter, milk, vanilla and almond extracts in bowl of electric mixer; beat at medium speed until well blended. Add egg. Beat just until blended.
- Step 4
COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Add to shortening mixture at low speed. Mix just until blended. Stir in 1 cup peanut butter chips. Press mixture into prepared pan.
- Step 5
BAKE 20 minutes. Remove from oven; sprinkle with remaining 1 cup peanut butter chips. Let stand 5 minutes or until chips melt. Spread evenly over surface. Cool.
- Step 7
COMBINE powdered sugar, peanut butter and milk in small bowl; beat well. Drizzle over cooled bars. Cut into 2 1/4 x 1-inch bars.
COOKIE BASE
DRIZZLE
Serving size
(1 bar of 54)
- Calories 120
- Calories from Fat60g
- Total Fat 6g
- Saturated Fat 2g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0g
- Cholesterol 5mg
- Sodium 90mg
- Potassium 0mg
- Total Carbohydrates 13g
- Dietary Fiber 1g
- Sugars 9g
- Protein 3g
- Vitamin A 0%
- Vitamin C 0%
- Vitamin D 0%
- Calcium 0%
- Thiamin 0%
- Niacin 0%
- Zinc 0%
- Riboflavin 0%
- Iron 0%
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet