Peanut Butter-Oatmeal-Chip Bars

The basis for the recipe came from the bag of the bag of sugar we purchased yesterday at the grocery store in the Village. It's an Intermountain West regional brand of sugar, so don't know if the recipe is published anywhere. I modified it somewhat to suit our tastes.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup brown sugar 
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (I used Kirkland [Costco] organic all-natural)
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup unbleached white flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup old-fashioned oats (I used Coach's Oats, our fave!)
• 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream butter and sugars.
3. Add egg and peanut butter; mix well.
4. Stir in baking soda, salt, flours, and oatmeal until combined. 
5. Press dough into a greased (ideally with butter - use the wrapper from the stick you used to make the dough!) 13"x9" cake pan.
6. Sprinkle chocolate and peanut butter chips on top; make sure they are intermingled.
7. Bake 20 - 25 minutes until light golden brown.
8. Cool; cut into squares to serve.

Not too sweet, and you get to sneak a few whole grains in there! I completely omitted the icing that the original recipe included - seemed unnecessary.

This post is linked to Eat at Home's Ingredient Spotlight: Brown Sugar post.

~Mamie "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!" (Hunter S. Thompson)