Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

The most amazing chewy oatmeal peanut butter bars loaded up with peanut butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.  These are so simple to whip up!

Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

These are fantastic!!  If you love oatmeal cookies then you will love these.  And if you love peanut butter cookies you are going to flip for these oatmeal peanut butter bars. 

They are everything you’d hope for in a cookie bar.  Thick, super chewy and beyond easy and to make.

How Do You Get Cookie Bars to Be Chewy and Not Dry?

My best tip for baking cookies or cookie bars is to bake them just a minute or two shy of being done. 

The reason why: cookies continue to bake even out of the oven. 

So if you want chewy cookies, under bake them every so slightly.

What type of Oats Do I use?

You’ll want to use regular run of the mill old fashioned rolled oats. I would stay away from the steel cut oats.

Rolled oats absorb liquid better than steel cut. And using quick oats would give you a different texture.

Since quick oats cook a lot faster than old fashioned, the oats could disintegrate into the cookie.

More amazing cookie bars to try

• Caramel Apple White Chocolate Blondie Bars – if you love caramel apples, these are the bars for you!
• Dark Chocolate Chip Ginger Bookies
• Coffee Cake Bars With Streusel Topping – tastes just like a piece of coffee cake, but a convenient bar size
• S’Mores Cookie Bars
• Mad Scientist M&M’s Oreo Cookie Bars – created by a 4 year old, they rock

How To Make Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

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Chewy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

The chewiest most amazing oatmeal peanut butter bars loaded up with peanut butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter chips. These are so simple to whip up!

Tara Moore

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time15 mins

Total Time30 mins

Course: Dessert

Keyword: brown sugar, chocolate chips, cookies, flour, oats, peanut butter, peanut butter chips, sugar

Servings: 12 bars

Author: Tara Moore

Ingredients

• 1/2 c butter room temperature
• 1/2 c white sugar
• 1/2 c brown sugar
• 1/2 c creamy peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 c flour
• 2 c oats
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 c semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 c peanut butter chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350
• Cream together softened butter with white sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy
• Add in the peanut butter, egg and vanilla
• Mix until combined
• In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking soda and salt – to this add the oats
• Pour in the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until almost combined but not totally
• Add in the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips, mix gently
• Line a square pan with parchment paper
• Scoop the batter into the baking pan and press into all the corners so its even
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, bake a minute or two less than what “done” would be for a chewier cookie bar texture
• Remove from the oven, let it cool for 30 minutes then transfer to a baking rack by lifting up on the parchment paper
• Serve by cutting in to squares!

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