PEANUT BUTTER CAKE BARS
Packed with peanut butter and chocolate chips, these bars are at home anywhere. Adults love them as much as kids do.
—CHARLOTTE ENNIS LAKE ARTHUR, NM
PREP: 15 MIN. • BAKE: 45 MIN. + COOLING • MAKES: 2 DOZEN
2/3 cup butter, softened
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 package (11 1/2 ounces) milk chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. Spread into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.