These bars have a lot of ingredients, but when you serve them to the kids with a big glass of ice cold milk, you'll know why it's worth the time.
Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 stick softened butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 12 ounce package chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup jelly or jam
Preparation:
Combine flour, crumbs, baking soda and salt.
Beat butter, sugars and peanut butter in a separate bowl until creamy.
Beat in egg.
Gradually combine flour mixture in and beat well.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Press 3/4 of the dough into a 13 x 9 inch baking dish.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes and remove from oven.
Drop jelly by teaspoonfuls over the dough. Let stand until jelly is warm and spreads easliy, then spread to cover all.
Take remaining 1/4 of dough and drop by teaspoonfuls over the jelly.
Do not spread.
Bake 25 minutes more and allow to cool before cutting into bars.