Peanut butter, peanut butter cookies, and chocolate. Sounds like a good idea to me.
And dangerously fast and easy to make.
These rich, soft and chewy, peanut buttery bars are a hybrid of the Triple Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Bars and the Loaded M&M Oreo Cookie Bars, with Nutter Butter Cookies instead of Oreos.
Even after writing a cookbook with 100+ peanut butter recipes, I can never have too much peanut butter. What better way to work it in than via Nutter Butters. If you’ve never had them, they’re peanut butter-sandwich cookies with a peanut butter filling.
If you don’t have Nutter Butter’s in your area, try a storebrand peanut butter-sandwich cookie or vanilla-sandwich cookies like Golden Oreos. You’ll miss out on some of the peanut butter flavor, but it’s better to substitute than miss out on the recipe.
The recipe follows the pattern of my trusty blondies recipes, and are made in one-bowl, no mixer required, and the batter is whisked together in minutes before being turned out into a pan and baked.
Simply melt one stick of butter in a bowl in the micro, stir in an egg, brown sugar, peanut butter, and flour, before folding in diced Nutter Butters and chocolate chips.
I reserved a couple tablespoons each of diced cookies and chocolate chips and sprinkled them on top before baking so that I could really see those big, chunky cookie hunks and melty chocolate in each bite.
We eat with our eyes first, and my eyes like to see cookies and chocolate.
The bars have a nice peanut butter flavor, but it’s not overpowering, and the buttery, rich dough shines.
Chocolate and peanut butter go hand in hand, and the semi-sweet chocolate is perfect against the sweetness of the Nutter Butters.
The chunks of cookies are a wonderful contrast to the otherwise smooth, dense dough. Although the Nutter Butters soften slightly while baking, they provide a serious dose of texture.
It’s a small batch recipe, making about 9 bars in an 8-inch pan.
It’s a good thing I made these last week before I picked up my daughter at school. I ate one, gave one each to my husband and daughter, and promptly donated the rest of the pan to my daughter’s teachers.
It’s way too easy to go to town on peanut butter and chocolate. Especially vis soft, dense, moist cookie bars, packed with peanut butter and chocolate.
About midnight when my inner snacking monster comes out, it’s really good these weren’t around.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Nutter Butter Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick, melted
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 10 Nabisco Nutter Butter Cookies
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8-by-8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a large, microwave-safe bowl melt the butter, about 1 minute on high power.
- Wait momentarily before adding the egg so you don’t scramble it. Add the egg, brown sugar, vanilla, and whisk until smooth.
- Add the peanut butter and stir until smooth.
- Add the flour and stir until just combined, don’t overmix.
- Stir in most of the chopped Nutter Butters, reserving about 1/4 cup to be sprinkled on top.
- Stir in most of the chocolate chips, reserving about 2 tablespoons to be sprinkled on top.
- Turn batter out into prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula.
- Evenly sprinkle the reserved Nutter Butters and reserved chocolate chips over the top, lightly pressing them down with your finger or a spatula.
- Bake for about 28 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center (if you can find a bare patch to test) comes out mostly clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter. Allow bars to cool in pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing and serving. Bars will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Do you like Nutter Butters?
I would love to sink my teeth into one of these bars!
Oh Averie! Your triple pb monster bars and the loaded M&M oreo bars are two of my recent favorite bar recipes. Now you completely took them both to the next level. These bars look so moist, so soft, so peanut buttery. Everything I love about desserts, of course. Nutter butters are a favorite of mine, though I haven’t had them in ages. I would love to make my own someday. I’ve had dreams of a nutter butter PB fudge. May have to try that!
PS: I want to each right through the screen and steal that entire tower in the first photo.
I also have a midnight snacking alter ego and she would go to TOWN on a plate of these. It would be awesome, but probably not pretty.
I love nutter butters. They remind me of the pb sandwich Girl Scout cookies, which I also love.
How do you come up with these bars ideas, Averie? Each time they are more and more tempting! Pinned!
Oh my word – these look amazing.
I love your peanut butter recipes. It’s like you look into my soul and create my dreams.
Oh yum. These look absolutely, addictingly entrancing. I want these now, please! :)
I never think of buying Nutter Butters but I might just for these bars! These are seriously making my mouth water. I love all your creative and delicious peanut butter recipes!
It’s not possible to have too many pb recipes! Love that you used Butter Butters in these. Such an underutilized cookie.
I do not think there could be a better combo! These would be gobbled up in minutes around here!
These look so chewy!! I’d love to sink my teeth into these!
Nutter butters sounds A-MAZING in these bars. Yum. These bars look absolutely sinful! On my must-make list ;)
These look dangerous…and delicious (and worth a couple of extra miles of running)! NutterButters, Biscoffs, and Oreos are about the only commercially made cookies worth crunching on for me and any of those are great texture and flavor in a pan of bars! Hope you have a great time in Vegas!
These look so good. I have everything on hand but the nutter butters but believe me, that is worth a quick trip to the grocery store. :)
I haven’t had Nutter Butters in so long. I bet they are great in these bars!
You are indeed a dangerous woman;)