Best School Cafeteria Peanut Butter Bars Recipes

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RETRO SCHOOL CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS



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It's taken me a while to find this recipe. There are many versions of "the peanut butter bar" but, I believe this recipe comes the closest to what I remember eating in the 1960's (via our elementary school lunchroom). Boy those ladies could really cook back then!

Provided by Deborah Olson

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Bar Cookie Recipes

Time 1h5m

Yield 20

Number Of Ingredients 15

1 ⅛ cups white sugar
1 ⅛ cups brown sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 large eggs
¾ cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ⅔ cups rolled oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch salt
2 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
2 tablespoons milk, or more as needed
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 15x10-inch baking pan.
  • Cream white sugar, brown sugar, butter, and eggs together in a mixing bowl. Mix in peanut butter and vanilla extract. Add flour and blend well. Add oats, baking soda, and salt and mix to combine. Spread into the prepared pan.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool or chill in the refrigerator, about 30 minutes.
  • While bars cool, blend powdered sugar, butter, milk, and peanut butter together in a bowl, adding more milk to give frosting the desired consistency. Frost cooled bars and cut into 20 pieces.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 387.9 calories, Carbohydrate 52.4 g, Cholesterol 49.2 mg, Fat 18.3 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 5.8 g, SaturatedFat 8.7 g, Sodium 136 mg, Sugar 36.9 g

SCHOOL CAFETERIA PEANUT BUTTER BARS



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Remember those flat peanut butter bars you used to get in your school cafeteria lunches? Well, here they are!

Provided by Julesong

Categories     Bar Cookie

Time 28m

Yield 1 batch bars

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
3/4 cup peanut butter (such as Jif or Skippy smooth or chunky, your choice, and NOT reduced fat, "natural peanut butter" no)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional)
1 cup milk chocolate chips (optional)

Steps:

  • Combine flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
  • Cream together the butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.
  • Beat in egg.
  • Gradually beat in flour mixture.
  • (If you'd like, you can add 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips to the mixture, but I know*my* school could never afford such luxuries as chocolate!) Spread batter into a 13x9x2 inch pan.
  • Bake at 375F for 15 to 18 minutes.
  • (If you'd like to go the extra mile past what your school could probably afford to make for your lunches, you can take 1 cup of milk chocolate chips and put them on the surface of the peanut butter bars just after you've removed them from the oven. The bar) Let the bars it cool in the pan on a rack then cut into bars.
  • Enjoy!
  • Note: reduced fat peanut butter for this recipe is not recommended, as it might make the bars drier than you'd like.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 4564, Fat 288.8, SaturatedFat 138.9, Cholesterol 674, Sodium 4457.1, Carbohydrate 437.5, Fiber 18.4, Sugar 225.9, Protein 82.7

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