A bar cookie that combines two favorites
– chocolate chips and peanut butter in vanilla dough. Oats
help to keep them moist – if they last that long. Sure to
be a favorite.
Peanut Butter Chocolate
Bars
- 1/2 cup stick butter, softened
1 cup Equal® Spoonful*
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup 2% milk
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup quick oats, uncooked
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Beat butter, Equal® and brown sugar
until well combined. Stir in milk, peanut butter, egg and vanilla
until blended. Gradually mix in combined flour, oats, baking
soda and salt until blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Spread mixture evenly in well-sprayed
13 x 9-inch baking pan. Bake in preheated 350°F oven 23 to
25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted near center comes out
clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into squares.
- Store in airtight container at room temperature.
Makes 48 bars.
*May substitute 24 packets Equal sweetener
Nutrition Information Per Serving: calories
68, protein 1 g, carbohydrate 7 g, fat 4 g, cholesterol 10 mg,
sodium 42 mg.
Food Exchanges: 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.
Recipe provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the
NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®.
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for more information on the artificial sweetner Aspartame.
