Peanut butter m m bars

96 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2¼ cup Flour
1 teaspoon Baking powder
½ cup Margarine
½ cup Reduced fat margarine
1½ cup Packed brown sugar
1 cup Reduced fat creamy peanut butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 larges Eggs
1 pack Miniature M + M candies
½ cup Chocolate chips; melted

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a cookie sheet with cooking spray.

Sift together flour and baking powder; set aside. With an electric mixer at high speed, cream margarines and brown sugar together well. Beat in the peanut butter and vanilla; blend well. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add the flour mixture; mix until blended. Fold in the miniature M + M 's.

Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until the edges begin to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool thoroughly on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Drizzle melted chocolate over bars and refrigerate just until chocolate is set. Store in airtight container.

Freezes well.

Adapted from: Peanut Butter and Chocolate Bars, A to Z Bar Cookies by Marie Simmons p. 79 1994

Recipe by: LSS Collection

Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97 #331 by Linda Shapiro <lss@...> on Dec 21, 1997

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