High-Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Recipe (4 Ingredients) High Protein Recipes Shortcut Recipes Desserts Cookies Snacks Budget Recipes

These delicious peanut butter chocolate chip cookie bars will blow your mind. Just four ingredients? Yes! In the oven in less than 10 minutes? Yes, it's true! This is one dessert recipe you've got to try right now. This simple high-protein dessert recipe for chocolate chip peanut butter squares is the best shortcut peanut butter chocolate chip cookie bar and a favorite from the iconic Pillsbury Bake-Off. Try them once and you'll be hooked. These rich cookies are so good, and so easy to make! Plus check out the health benefits of protein.

The decadent high-protein chocolate chip peanut butter cookie bars are made with four simple ingredients: refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough, powdered sugar, creamy peanut butter and vanilla extract. The cookie dough is used as the crust and the topping for these bar cookies, which makes them so easy to prepare. Beat the powdered sugar, peanut butter and vanilla to make the creamy delicious filling. So simple! Plus check out the health benefits of peanut butter. 

Serve these peanut butter cookie bars for dessert or as a sweet snack. Be sure to make enough to share with friends, family and neighbors. Enjoy the yum!

Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes plus 1 hour to chill 
Cook Time: 30 to 35 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
Servings: 12

Ingredients

• 16 ounces (1 roll) refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Here's how to make it:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325 degrees F for a glass dish). Set out an 8- or 9-inch square baking pan.
2. In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer on medium speed, combine the powdered sugar, peanut butter and vanilla until well blended.
3. Cut cookie dough in half. Break up half the dough into small pieces and press the dough evenly onto the bottom of the ungreased baking pan.
4. Spoon the peanut butter mixture into the pan. Use the back of the spoon to press it evenly across cookie base. (You can try other nut butters in this recipe, such as almond butter or cashew butter.)
5. Crumble the remaining half of the cookie dough into as many small pieces as possible. Sprinkle dough pieces over the peanut butter surface. Use your fingertips to gently work the dough, spreading it carefully and as evenly as possible to cover the peanut butter layer.
6. Bake cookies for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown and firm to the touch. Remove baking pan from the oven. Allow bars to cool in the pan on a cooling rack for at least 30 minutes. Refrigerate pan until bars are chilled, about 1 hour.
7. Use a sharp knife to cut cookies into four rows by four rows (or any other size you wish.) Remove bars from the pan with a spatula. Store cookie bars in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

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