Oh my dear people. Oh. My. Dear. People. I am absolutely in love. (With this recipe. Right. Like I would have held out on you if I had a man.) I found this recipe on the blog called "The Girl Who Ate Everything." Kind of makes you feel like I have a second blog, there with that title, doesn't it??? It's not me. But she's my kindred spirit in food, and I couldn't be happier about the discovery of THIS bad boy. And it really is a bad boy. Let's just skip over the thought of nutritional information, shall we? It's not good for you. But it is GOOD. Make no mistake about that.
I was just going to be satisfied to have this on my pretty little Pinterest board and go back to it over and over...but I needed it in my favorites list. NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDED it. You hear me? I made this last week for work, where it was promptly gobbled up and raved over. Then I made a second batch, which I gave away (well, mostly)...and I've had several people ask for the recipe. So....with all credit and props to the Girl Who Ate Everything...here are (drumroll) the chocolate peanut butter bars.
The Recipe
1 box yellow cake mix
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup creamy peanut butter
2 eggs
1 package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
2 Tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons vanilla
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine cake mix, melted butter, peanut butter, and eggs in a large bowl. Press into a 9x13 pan reserving 1 1/2 cup of the mixture to crumble on top. In a small pan, melt chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and butter. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. Spread chocolate mixture over the crust pressed in the pan and then crumble the 1 1/2 cups of reserved cake mixture on top evenly. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool completely before cutting into bars.
Guess what I forgot to actually put in BOTH times I made this? The vanilla. Good grief.
Start by melting the stick of butter.
Add the cake mix and stir it up. It will be very thick.
Add the peanut butter - even thicker.
Add the eggs and stir it all up well. It will be almost like cookie dough.
I put a sandwich baggie over my hand and pressed the dough into the bottom of the 9x13
I just used a regular sauce pan for the sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, and butter.
Stand over it and stir all the time while it melts together....you don't want it to burn to the bottom of the pan! Then add the vanilla. You know. If you remember.
Went back to the baggie trick to pull out "tufts" of the crust to place around on the top.
I call it artsy. You may think it looks like a five year old baked it. Trust me. It tastes good no matter what it looks like.
When it's done baking, it will still be kind of gooey until it cools. But it really is done. Even if it doesn't look like it.
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