Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

By ChrisPergament

Ingredients

• 2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 3/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup butter
• 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
• 1 cup choc. chips
• 1 egg
• 1 (14 oz) can swetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup peanut butter

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 350.

Combine oats, brown sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda in large bowl. Cut in butter with pasty blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in peanuts.

Reserve 1 1/2 cups crumb mixture. Stir egg into remaining crumb mixture. Press onto bottom of 13x9 baking pan.

Bake 15 min.

Stir together sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter in small bowl until well combined. Pour evenly over partially baked crust.

Stir together reserved crumb mixture and choc chips. Sprinkle evenly over peanut butter layer.

Bake an additional 15 min. Cool. Cut into bars.