Peanut Butter Bars

​If this blog post looks familiar it's because I am posting this recipe for Peanut Butter Bars for the second time.  Why?  you ask.  The first reason is that these peanut butter bars are so delicious - they deserve another spot on the blog.  Secondly, the first time that I posted them was over a year and a half ago (Hard to believe I've been blogging that long already.) and I had only a couple of pictures attached to the recipe.  When I look back over some of my first blog posts I realize that I've gone from one extreme to the other - one or two photos per recipe to an overabundance of photos.  The last reason that I am reposing this particular recipe is  because we are in the middle of baseball and soccer seasons right now and these make a perfect team snack.  The recipe is easy, it makes a lot and they are easy to transport.

Peanut Butter Bars
3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups oats
3/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup chopped peanuts

​Cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars.

​Beat in eggs, one at a time.  Beat in vanilla.

​Add dry ingredients and mix well.

​Spread into a foil lined 10x15" pan.

​Bake for 18 minutes at 325.

​Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips.

​Allow to soften for a few minutes and then spread over bars.

​Sprinkle chopped peanuts over chocolate.

​Cool completely and then cut into bars.

​I took this particular batch of peanut butter bars to the baseball field to feed the players between games of a double header.

Ciao!

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