Peanut Butter Fingers
I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to get this post up. I made these a week ago, and have had the pictures uploaded for almost that long! This is a dessert that is very, very good. Go ahead and tell yourself that they’re good for you. Yeah, you might be lying to yourself, but trust me. It’s worth it. I made these for a family get together for the Fourth of July last year, and I barely managed to grab a tiny little piece before the whole pan was gone. Now whether that means my family is like piranhas or the dessert is good, I’ll leave up to you to decide.
First we take a picture of our ingredients. Then we take another picture because we realized we left out one of the most important ones.
Butter, sugar, brown sugar, 1 egg, vanilla extract, salt, baking soda, flour, oatmeal, chocolate chips, powdered sugar, milk, and peanut butter.
In a mixing bowl, put 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine.
Add 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and 1/2 cup brown sugar. I tried y’alls microwaving the brown sugar advice and it helped quite a bit. Maybe next time I’ll leave it in the microwave longer, but I was kind of chicken.
Cream these ingredients together. And admire my lovely smiley face! Complete coincidence, by the way. I didn’t even see the smiley there until I was uploading the pictures!
Add 1 egg.
Add 1/3 cup peanut butter.
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt and admire my adjustable measuring spoons from Pampered Chef that I may or may not have ordered when I purchased the gift certificate for the contest.
1/2 teaspoon vanilla, and mix all those ingredients together. You’ll have to guess what it looks like because I forgot to take a picture of that step.
Finally, STIR in 1 cup oatmeal
and 1 cup of flour.
Stirred all together, this is what I ended up with.
Grease a 9×13 pan.
Spread your cookie dough in the 9×13 pan. I had to give up and use my fingers to get it to spread evenly. And then I licked them.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes. Mine were probably in the oven for 22-23 minutes, and I wished I’d gotten them out a couple minutes earlier.
The baked cookie part. They were a bit crunchier than I’d have liked… next time, I’ll check them a little earlier.
While the cookie is fresh from the oven, and still very hot, pour on your chocolate chips. The recipe calls for 6oz, but there’s no such thing as too much chocolate so I probably used 3/4 of the bag.
When the chocolate chips have melted, use a knife or a spatula to spread the chocolate over the top of the cookie bar. Then it’s time to make the glaze!
In a small bowl, add 1/2 cup powdered sugar.
1/4 cup peanut butter
And 2-4 tablespoons of milk. Pay attention to that dash. That dash is very important. I made these for the first time when I was like 13… and I messed this part up. I was made fun of to no end and was traumatized for life. Maybe I should blame this incident for why I am 24 and just now learning how to cook. Anyways! Start with 2 tablespoons of milk. Mix it all up… only add more milk if your glaze is going to be too thick… if your glaze is runny, your family will make fun of you, and you won’t cook anything besides Hamburger Helper for 10 years. Trust me on this one.
But back to the glaze.
Stir it all together. This is with 2 tablespoons of milk. It felt a little thick, and I considered adding more. But then I remembered the incident above, and was too frightened to do so. It did end up being a little on the thick side when I tried to put it on, but I made it work.
Spread the glaze over your melted chocolate chips and enjoy!
Recipe
Peanut Butter Fingers
1/2 c. butter or margarine
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
Cream together.
1 egg
1/3 c. peanut butter
1/2 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1/2 t. vanilla
Stir in 1c. oatmeal
1 c. flour
Spread in greased 9×13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Spread on 6oz of chocolate chips.
Glaze:
1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. peanut butter
2-4 T. milk
Pour on top of melted chips.
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OMG…now I’m starving! (Peanut butter is a major weakness of mine!)
First time I’ve seen your blog, but I promise, I will be back!
It looks so evil, yet so good! I’m afraid to make them because I know I will be the piranha feasting on that. Haha.
WOW! I love peanut butter anything!!
I’ll be back to see more of your blog.
That looks yummy! Sometimes I wish I was able to grab these things through my computer monitor…
Dedicated dropper and wanted to comment on your latest blog. I am not a big peanut butter fan. I was be addicted to Fluffernutters (sp) when I was a young kid. I guess you can call me a fluffy nut!
I am going to be trying these out this week. They have the best of everything in them! And you gotta love the PC measuring spoons….whether you ordered them or not.
OMG! What are you doing to me?? That looks sooo good.
Don’t suppose you could just box those up and mail them to me eh? LOL I have a feeling I’d burn them as it is an oven item.
the only problem with this recipe, is that i would eat the whole pan!
This was a family favourite when I was a kid.
Actually, my mom would put the choc chips on when the squares were still warm but not fresh out of the oven, then made up the icing and then spread it out over the chips and they melted together and it created like a really cool, hmm…marble effect. Yeah, that was the word I was looking for.
I’ve read other recipees that spread out the choc chips like this one, but then the icing is drizzled over the choc chips. A different effect, too; but yep, these are good whichever way they are done!
Oh, I almost forgot. Mom baked them in a 13 x 9 pan, too; but would not spread them out the whole length of the pan. Probably only 3/4 of the pan. This made them a bit thicker. Uuumm…uummm…good
If you are a stat reader, please ignore the fact that I have had this page loaded for more than an hour. My pan of squares is cooling on the counter as I type.
I got the link from Skeet!
Can’t go wrong with that combination of ingredients. The best part is I almost always have all of those items in my cupboards. I know what I’m doing this weekend…
Here via Bluepaintred.
I am enamoured with milk chocolate chips. Yum.
PS: Close your brown sugar with a clip, put it in a ziplock and freeze it. It never ever ever will get hard and gross and you can keep it frozen for like, forever until you need it.