"Now I've searched across this great continent for this recipe, but after 10 years I've ultimately resigned myself to the fact that it's the ultimate in protected secrets of the lunch ladies union."
That smooth thick peanut butter cookie crust layered with creamy chocolate frosting just out of my grasp year after year! My desire for it was so great, I even considered sneaking into the school during lunch time and stocking up on a few. Then, when I reconsidered that plan, I realized how pathetic and desperate it was.
Well... no more! I can now proudly announce that I've concluded my quest!
High School Lunch Peanut Butter Bars
I found this recipe off of the Taste of Home website via Pinterest.
Cookie
¾ cup butter
¾ cup peanut butter
¾ cup brown sugar
¾ cup sugar
Cream together until light, airy and fluffy
Add
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
Add
1½ cups flour
1½ cups oatmeal
¾ baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
Mix just until combined
Drop dough into a 15x10 pan
Evenly spread and flatten dough (easiest to use your palms)
Bake a 325°F for 15-20 minutes, until lightly browned
Let cool in pan, then frost
Frosting
½ bag of powdered sugar (+/- )
¼ cup butter
¾ cup peanut butter
1½ cups melted chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla
¼ - ½ cup of milk
Mix with beaters until light and fluffy
Spread over cookies
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Oh man! I love me some lunch lady bars!!! Stomach growling.
ReplyDeleteThese look great, but I don't recall ours being baked. I will try these, however, because like you I have searched high and low for a recipe to replicate the old school lunch "peanut butter treats", as we called them. Thanks for sharing this!
ReplyDeleteall of a sudden I'm taken back to the days of plastic trays, shorts tables, and stuffing vegetables in my empty milk carton! Can't wait to give these a whirl! (how are you anyway???)
ReplyDeleteLots of errors in this recipe. What kind of oats? Quick cooking? Old fashioned? Do you grease the pan first? How much baking soda? 3/4 of what (I am assuming teaspoon)?
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