Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Bars Recipe

Mushy, chewy, and LOADED with goodies, these peanut butter Monster Cookie Bars are made in a single bowl and prepared in below an hour. When you’re a fan of chocolate, peanut butter, and oats, you’re gonna love them!

These bars do comprise flour, however in case you want a gluten-free model, attempt my oatmeal monster cookies.

3 Tasty Cookies in 1 Bar!

When you love oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies, and chocolate chip cookies, these bars are for you! They even have some colourful M&M’s tossed in to make them further enjoyable!

Melted butter makes them good and chewy, and the oats add an excellent texture. And naturally with two sorts of chocolate chips plus the colourful candies, they’re positive to please any chocoholic.

Easy methods to make chewy monster cookie bars:

1. PREP – Soften the butter in a massive bowl within the microwave. Spray a 9×13″ pan with cooking spray. Preheat your oven to 350°.
2. WET INGREDIENTS – Whisk the brown sugar into the melted butter till no lumps stay. Add the eggs, peanut butter, and vanilla; whisk till clean.
3. DRY INGREDIENTS – Add the flour, baking powder, rolled oats, chocolate chips, and M&M’s. Reserve a number of the chocolate chips and M&M’s to press on prime of the bars.
4. BAKE – Press the monster cookie dough evenly within the backside of the ready baking pan utilizing moist arms. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and M&M candies. Bake at 350° for about 35 minutes, or till barely set within the center.
5. COOL – We really get pleasure from these bars ooey gooey and heat, however they’re simpler to chop after they’re fully cool. It’s as much as you!

Storing leftover monster bars

These bars will final for 4-5 days at room temperature if saved in an hermetic container. For optimum freshness, you may wrap them individually in plastic wrap and they’ll last as long as every week.

It’s also possible to freeze the bars. I like to recommend letting them cool fully, wrapping in plastic wrap, and putting them in heavy-duty freezer baggage. They are going to final within the freezer for 4-5 months. Allow them to thaw at room temperature.

PRO TIPS:

• For greatest outcomes, use common creamy peanut butter like Jif or Skippy. Pure peanut butter doesn’t work fairly as effectively.
• If all you could have is crunchy peanut butter, add an extra 1/3 cup or the bars are typically dry.
• Earlier than measuring peanut butter, spray your measuring cup with cooking spray and it’ll slide out a lot simpler!

VARIATIONS:

• For much more peanut butter taste, stir in chopped roasted peanuts, peanut butter chips (my favourite!), or Reese’s items.
• In case you have leftover leftover halloween sweet bars, you can chop them up and use them rather than the chocolate chips or M&M’s.
• I make these with quaint oats as a result of that’s what I’ve available, however fast oats would additionally work.
• Want a giant batch to feed a crowd? You possibly can double the recipe and bake them in a rimmed cookie sheet. Lower the baking time by about 10 minutes.

MONSTER COOKIE BARS RECIPE

These scrumptious monster cookie bars are all the time an enormous hit at potlucks, picnics, and bake gross sales!