Chocolate-Cream Cheese-Peanut Butter Bars

Name: Chocolate-Cream Cheese-Peanut Butter Bars
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters butter or margarine; 227 grams package cream cheese, softened; 158 milliliters crunchy or creamy peanut butter; 1 egg; 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® peanut butter cookie mix; 177 milliliters powdered sugar; 296 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 3 Tbsps vegetable oil; 1 Tbsp water; 118 milliliters whipping cream

Chocolate-Cream Cheese-Peanut Butter Bars requires approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 36. This hor d'oeuvre has 189 calories, 3g of protein, and 13g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have vegetable oil, egg, creamy peanut butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, stir cookie base and topping ingredients until soft dough forms. Shape 6 (1-inch) balls of dough. On ungreased cookie sheet, place balls 2 inches apart; flatten in crisscross pattern with fork.

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Press remaining dough in pan.

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Dough

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Bake cookies and base 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 10 minutes. Reserve cookies for topping.

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Base

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Oven

In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips and butter uncovered on High 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and stirred smooth.

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Chocolate Chips

Butter

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Bowl

Spread evenly over bars. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes.

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Spread

In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, peanut butter, powdered sugar and whipping cream with electric mixer on low speed until blended. Beat on high speed about 2 minutes or until light and fluffy.

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Powdered Sugar

Whipping Cream

Peanut Butter

Cream Cheese

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Hand Mixer

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Spread over chocolate layer.

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Chocolate

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Crush reserved cookies; sprinkle over cream cheese layer. Press in lightly. Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes. For bars, cut into 9 rows by 4 rows. Store covered in refrigerator.

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Cream Cheese