Cafeteria Peanut Butter Bars Recipes

RETRO SCHOOL CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 15x10-inch baking pan.
• Cream white sugar, brown sugar, butter, and eggs together in a mixing bowl. Mix in peanut butter and vanilla extract. Add flour and blend well. Add oats, baking soda, and salt and mix to combine. Spread into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool or chill in the refrigerator, about 30 minutes.
• While bars cool, blend powdered sugar, butter, milk, and peanut butter together in a bowl, adding more milk to give frosting the desired consistency. Frost cooled bars and cut into 20 pieces.

THE REAL CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream butter and white sugar and brown sugar. Blend in peanut butter, eggs, vanilla, and baking soda. Add flour and oatmeal. Mix well.
• Spread batter in greased 15"x10"x1" pan. Bake for 20 minutes.
• Remove pan from oven turn the oven off. Sprinkle chocolate chips over the top of bars. Return to oven and allow to sit for 8 minutes or until chocolate is melted. Spread to smooth chocolate, and allow to cool.
• To make the peanut butter icing: Mix together powdered sugar, remaining peanut butter, and milk until it makes a spreadable consistency. Cover the bars and enjoy!

CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• 1. Mix the sifted powdered sugar, brown sugar and melted butter together well. Fold in the creamy peanut butter until blended.
• 2. Spread the peanut butter mixture into a buttered pan; 9x13 for thicker bars, cookie sheet for thinner bars.
• 3. Melt the chocolate chips and 1/2 cup butter and pour over the peanut butter mixture. Spread around to make it even.
• 4. Refrigerate for 1 hour, until chocolate has solidified most of the way, and cut into bars with an unserrated knife.
• 5. Return to the refrigerator over night until set. (I return to the freezer for faster set time).

SCHOOL CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
• Cream together the butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.
• Beat in egg.
• Gradually beat in flour mixture.
• (If you'd like, you can add 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips to the mixture, but I know*my* school could never afford such luxuries as chocolate!) Spread batter into a 13x9x2 inch pan.
• Bake at 375F for 15 to 18 minutes.
• (If you'd like to go the extra mile past what your school could probably afford to make for your lunches, you can take 1 cup of milk chocolate chips and put them on the surface of the peanut butter bars just after you've removed them from the oven. The bar) Let the bars it cool in the pan on a rack then cut into bars.
• Enjoy!
• Note: reduced fat peanut butter for this recipe is not recommended, as it might make the bars drier than you'd like.

NO BAKE CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except the chocolate chips in a large microwave safe bowl.
• Microwave until butter and peanut butter are melted, one to two minutes (time will vary by microwave).
• Remove from microwave and use a large spoon to stir all of the ingredients together until they form a ball of dough that leaves the side of the bowl.
• Pat into a 9x13 pan.
• Pour chocolate chips into another microwave safe bowl and microwave at 30 second intervals, stirring after each, until completely melted. Spoon over top of peanut butter mixture and spread evenly.
• Allow to cool completely at room temperature until chocolate hardens again or place in the refrigerator for faster hardening.
• Cut into squares and serve to some awfully happy people!