The most delicious bar ever! Recipe from
Epicurious, recommended to me by a Fashionism friend.
Ingredients:
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 1/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cup smooth peanut butter
- 3/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup grape jelly or other jelly or jam (I used strawberry preserves)
- 2/3 cup coarsely chopped salted dry-roasted peanuts (I used oatmeal)
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Line 8 x 8 x 2-inch metal baking pan with heavy-duty foil, leaving 2-inch overhang around edges and pressing firmly into corners and up sides of pan and spray with nonstick spray
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt in small bowl
- Using electric mixer, beat peanut butter, sugar, and butter in large bowl until smooth. Add egg and vanilla; beat on low speed until smooth
- Add flour mixture; beat on low speed just to blend
- Transfer half of dough to prepared pan
- Place remaining dough in freezer for 10 minutes
- Using fingertips, press dough evenly onto bottom of pan. Spread jelly over in even layer
- Remove dough from freezer; using fingertips, break into grape-size pieces, work in oatmeal (if using) and scatter over jelly layer
- Sprinkle chopped nuts over (if using)
- Bake bars until top is golden brown, about 30 minutes. Cool bars completely in pan on rack
Using foil overhang as aid, lift bars from pan. Gently peel foil from edges. Cut into 16 squares.
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