Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are loaded with rich chocolate and creamy peanut butter! With only 30 minutes to bake, you’ll want to make this indulgent cookie bar recipe right away!
We had a busy, busy weekend full of Halloween parties and I made these delicious peanut butter chocolate chip bars to take to one Saturday evening.
These bars are fantastic, just like our turtle cookie bars or cranberry crumb bars, they are always the first sweet to be devoured at parties. You just can’t go wrong with pairing PB and chocolate, am I right?
Ingredients
This is an easy recipe made with pantry staples.
- flour
- salt
- baking soda
- brown sugar
- peanut butter
- butter or margarine
- sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract
- chocolate chips
- peanut butter chips
Step by step
- Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl and set aside. In a stand mixer (affiliate link) mix brown sugar, peanut butter, butter, and sugar until smooth.
- Add in egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed until just combined. Reduce mixer speed to low and add in flour mixture.
- Remove from mixer and mix in chocolate and peanut butter chips by hand. Spread the batter in the pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes until golden and center is done.
- Cool on a rack and slice into 16 bars once cool.
Tips for best results
- You can use either crunchy or smooth peanut butter but do not use natural versions, the end result won’t be the right texture due to the separation of oil.
- Choose any kind of chocolate chip you want, dark chocolate, semisweet, milk chocolate: it’s up to you, they will all turn out delicious!
- For thicker bars use a 9 by 9-inch pan and extend the baking time by about five minutes.
You might also like these Peanut Butter Blossoms, Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies, my favorite PB Pie, or these gluten-free 4 ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies.
If you’ve tried this recipe please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 45 mins
- Yield: 16 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
Soft and Chewy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars are loaded with rich chocolate and creamy peanut butter! With only 30 minutes to bake, you’ll want to make this indulgent cookie bar recipe right away!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 12 oz package chocolate chips
- 12 oz package peanut butter chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease 9 by 13 baking pan.
- Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl, set aside.
- In a stand mixer (affiliate link) mix brown sugar, peanut butter, butter and sugar until smooth.
- Add in egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed until just combined.
- Reduce mixer speed to low and add in flour mixture.
- Remove from mixer and mix in chocolate and peanut butter chips by hand.
- Spread batter in pan and bake 25 to 30 minutes until golden and center is done.
- Cool on a rack and slice into 16 bars once cool.
Notes
- You can use either crunchy or smooth peanut butter but do not use natural peanut butter, the end result won’t be the right texture.
- Choose any kind of chocolate chip you want, dark chocolate, semisweet, milk chocolate: it’s up to you, they will all turn out delicious!
- For thicker bars use a 9 by 9-inch pan and extend the baking time by about five minutes.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 296
- Sugar: 26.2 g
- Sodium: 188.9 mg
- Fat: 15.6 g
- Carbohydrates: 37.3 g
- Protein: 6.1 g
- Cholesterol: 11.6 mg
Keywords: peanut butter chocolate chip cookie bar
This recipe was originally shared in July 2013 and updated with new photos and additional information in November 2019.
SO good! This is probably one of my favorite desserts on your website!
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So great, I tried this recipe years and years ago and just recently found it again and I’m so glad I did!
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These really are good with a different yummy taste. I used dark brown sugar and butter. Thanks!
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Oh wow…these look fantastic! Would love for you to share at our Kitchen Fun & Crafty Friday link party…just posted!:)
Oh my word yum! PB is huge in the house, so I definitely need to make these for my littles.
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So, Chocolate and peanut butter are pretty much my favorite combo. Needless to say, I am really glad you posted this. Looks delicious!!
Looks absolutely delicious!
These look so yummy! My hubby is a big peanut-butter fan… I’m sure he and the boys would just gobble these up. I might have to sneak a few, too. 😉