If you’re looking for a no-fuss, one-bowl recipe for peanut butter chocolate chip bars you’ve come to the right place! Just 10 ingredients and only 30 minutes of your time, and you’ll be loving on these bars made with smooth, creamy peanut butter and sweet chocolate chunks.
Why this recipe is so popular
Peanut butter and chocolate is a time honored tradition for some. Remember the old Reeses peanut butter cup commercials? “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!” The two ingredients were meant to be together.
Everyone loves easy chocolate chip cookies, but baking them in bar form means they are easily portable! Take the whole pan with you to your next potluck or family get-together.
Ingredients you will need
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- Dry: all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt
Wet: unsalted butter, creamy peanut butter, sugar, light brown sugar, egg, vanilla
Add ins: chopped semisweet chocolate (or a bag of chocolate chunks or chips), nuts if you want them
How to Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
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- Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a 13×9 pan with foil, grease or spray the foil.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugars, and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla until well combined. Turn mixer down to low and slowly add in dry ingredients. Turn off mixer and fold in chocolate.
- Press cookie dough into prepared pan and bake 20-22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack in pan. When cooled completely, lift out by foil and cut into bars.
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Expert Tips & FAQs
Lining and overlapping the pan either with foil or parchment paper gives you “handles”, making it easy to lift the bars out.
These peanut butter chocolate chunk bars are actually a basic chocolate chip cookie dough with the addition of peanut butter. If you already have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, compare yours to this, then add peanut butter in proportion.
These chocolate chip bars have been a favorite in this house for years. We love my peanut butter cookies so much, it just made sense to mix the two together. Here are some more of our chocolate chip faves!
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- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Skillet
- Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
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Print It Rate ItIngredients
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- ¾ teaspoons baking soda
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- ¾ cup unsalted butter 1 1/2 sticks (softened)
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 12 oz chopped semi sweet chocolate or a bag of chocolate chunks or chips
Before You Begin
- Lining and overlapping the pan either with foil or parchment paper gives you "handles", making it easy to lift the bars out.
- These peanut butter chocolate chunk bars are actually a basic chocolate chip cookie dough with the addition of peanut butter. If you already have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, compare yours to this, then add peanut butter in proportion.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Line a 13x9 pan with foil, grease or spray the foil. You can also use parchment paper.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter, sugars, and peanut butter until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla until well combined. Turn mixer down to low and slowly add in dry ingredients. Turn off mixer and fold in chocolate.
- Press cookie dough into prepared pan and bake 20-22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on wire rack in pan. When cooled completely, lift out by foil and cut into bars.
Nutrition
This post was originally published on this blog on March 15, 2011.
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Sadie says
Made these for a quick snack and my girls love them so much I had to make another pan the next day for their friends. Easy and find to do. Thank you so much. Ps I used actual peanut butter chips… delicious!!! You
Barr Joan says
Do you use chilled butter or room temp butter
Amanda Formaro says
Softened butter. Take out of the fridge and let sit at room temp for 20 minutes or so. You should be able to press it with your finger and make an indentation, but not so soft that your finger goes through it.
Natalie says
These peanut butter chocolate bars look so delicious! I love how easy it is to make it!
Amanda Formaro says
They are so good, hope you get a chance to try them! :)
Michele says
These look great Amanda! Will natural peanut butter work for your recipe? Thanks!
Amanda Formaro says
I have not tried natural peanut butter in them. I would love to hear how they turn out if you try! :)
Andrea says
These cookies are truly awesome.
Thanks for sharing!
Katrina says
I’m making these today for National Peanut Butter Day. We loved them the first time I made them. Easy and so good!
Barb says
Tragedy! I don’t have any peanut butter in the fridge!!! I feel a shopping trip coming on.
Amanda says
Thank you so much Ellie and Sarah, so glad you enjoyed them as much as we do!
Ellie says
I've made these 3 times already. They are so delicious! I also recommended them to my readers (as few as they may be) on my blog. Thanks for keeping my hips padded! ;)
Sarah says
Ohmygosh, these are amazing. The pan may not last through tomorrow!
sweetpeaskitchen.com says
Oh Man….do these look good or what!? I need to whip up a batch of these like now! Yummy! :)
Bianca @ Walnut Avenue says
These look divine – there is no better combo than peanut butter and chocolate!
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