Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Soft, thick, and chewy, these Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars combine creamy peanut butter, peanut butter chips, and chocolate chips in one easy 9x13 pan. A no-fuss bar recipe that is always a crowd favorite.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 30

Total Time 40

Servings servings

Calories 368kcal

Author Jason Decker

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a 9×13 baking pan with parchment paper, set aside.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
In the bowl of a stand mixer on low speed with the paddle attachment or in a large bowl with an electric hand mixer, cream the butter with the peanut butter until smooth.
½ cup unsalted butter, ½ cup creamy peanut butter
Add the granulated and brown sugar to the bowl and stir it in until combined.
¾ cup granulated sugar, ¾ cup light brown sugar
Add the eggs one at a time until fully mixed in along with the vanilla.
2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Next, add the dry ingredients a little at a time to the wet ingredients until fully mixed in.
Lastly, add the peanut butter chips and chocolate chips, stir until just combined.
1 ½ cups peanut butter chips, 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Press the cookie dough into the prepared pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and they are golden brown.
Let cool completely then lift the bars out using the parchment paper to help. Cut into bars and serve.

Notes

You can halve this recipe if you’d like and bake in a 9×9-inch pan.
Use any of your favorite chocolate chips, we use semi-sweet but milk and dark chocolate will also work.
Other mix-ins can be added, see above for ideas.
You can use crunchy peanut butter instead of creamy if you’d like.
If you want less of a peanut butter flavor you can leave it out of the batter, see above on how to replace it.
We have not tested with natural peanut butter so I do not know the outcome of using that.
These can be frozen, see above on how to do that.

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