These Fantastically Tasty Cookie Bars Will Leave You Drooling

These Easy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars are so incredibly delicious! With just a few ingredients you’ll make up a super easy and tasty peanut butter cookie dough (try to resist sampling it—I dare you). Then you pop it into the oven just long enough that they’re baked through—don’t overbake!

Underbaking them just a little leaves the insides gooey and fudgy—almost like a peanut butter brownie. Each bite is an explosion of peanut butter and chocolate goodness that just melts in your mouth. I’m not ashamed to say that during our movie the four of us polished off the whole pan. They’re that good!

Ingredients (mix up order)

1/4 cup melted butter

1 cup peanut butter

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1/8 tsp salt

1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp flour

2/3 cup granulated sugar or brown sugar

½ cup chocolate chips

up to 2 tbsp milk of choice, only if needed

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease an 8-inch baking pan and set aside. In a mixing bowl mix together peanut butter, butter and vanilla extract, and set aside. In a separate mixing bowl, stir together the baking soda, salt, flour, sugar, and chocolate chips. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and keep stirring—it will seem very dry at first, so you’ll need to break up the peanut butter and stop occasionally to scrape it off your spoon. Only if needed, slowly add up to 2 tbsp milk of choice as you stir. Don’t add more milk; it will eventually get gooey like cookie dough. Stir in the chocolate chips and transfer the batter into the prepared pan, and smooth down evenly with a spatula or spoon. Press some extra chocolate chips into the top if desired. Bake 10 – 15 minutes. When you take the peanut butter bars out, the top will look set but they will still be very undercooked underneath. This is okay! Leave them to cool for at least 20 minutes, during which time they will firm up. (They also firm up even more overnight.)