The other night I dug through my recipe box for something sweet to make and came across a recipe for Peanut Butter Fingers. I’d never made it, don’t remember eating it and don’t remember requesting the recipe either. But I read it over – butter, sugar, peanut butter, oatmeal and chocolate. Sounded like a good combo.
The recipe said it was from my mom so I called her up to ask if she could tell me a bit about the bars.
She said it sounded delicious but had no recollection of the recipe at all.
I told her the directions were written in her hand-writting.
Nope. No memory.
I told her there is even an ingredient suggestion written in by her.
Still nothing.
Maybe genetics are to blame for these memory shortfalls??
I went ahead with the bars anyway.
Glad I did. Chewy, peanut buttery with a bit-o-chocolate.
Peanut Butter Fingers
recipe “from my mom”
Cream together:
1 cup softened butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
Add:
2 eggs
2/3 cup peanut butter
Stir in:
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
2 cups oatmeal
Spread batter in a 9×13 pan and bake at 350 for 20 minutes
Immediately when you remove the pan from the over, sprinkle:
12 ounces milk or semi chocolate chips (or a combination of both) over the top
Blend together:
1 cup powder sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 to 4 Tbsp milk
Spread over melted chocolate chips
Cool, cut and serve.
I think the cooling part is optional. : )
*In the pictures, I was going for artistic not appropriate portion size. Lets be real. You would need to eat like 10 of those little squares to get the good sugar fill.
Uh oh. Little sneak.
A cute little sneak.
Take care.
-amy c
