Seriously, you won't want to miss out on these Loaded Peanut Butter Bars! They are so soft, extra thick and definitely loaded with peanut butter flavor, delectable white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Reese's Pieces Candy. A really scrumptious peanut butter bar lover's dream.
I took my “Phenomenal” Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies and made them into bars, because this actual peanut butter cookie recipe is literally, the bomb!
They are my favorite bakery-style peanut butter cookies and you can whip these up in no time for your favorite peeps!
These are the perfect party bars for your Halloween bash, Thanksgiving holiday and weekend baking! Can you believe Halloween is coming up already? It will be Christmas before you know it. Yikes!
The autumn festive colors fit right into your fall theme, but hey!...you can definitely make these all year round, because I don't think too many people are going to turn these down. They taste incredibly delicious and tempting.
Ingredients You Need
- butter
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar
- peanut butter
, creamy or crunchy
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour
- measure the flour correctly
- baking soda
- salt
- white chocolate chocolate chips
- peanut butter chips
- Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
- Reese's Candy Pieces
How To Make Loaded Peanut Butter Bars
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment paper lightly sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Using a mixer, mix the butter, sugars, peanut butter, eggs and vanilla together until combined.
- Add in the flour, soda, and salt in and mix until just combined. Make sure you measure flour correctly, or cookies will be dry & crumbly. (Fluff flour, spoon flour into cup and level off with a knife.)
- Fold in most of the chocolate chips & & Reese's PB Cups and Candy Pieces. (Reserve some for the tops.)
- Transfer dough to pan. Add some additional chocolate chips & Reese's PB Cups and Candy Pieces on top if you wish.
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes, or until top is set. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
- Allow bars to cool in pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing and serving.
Pan Sizes - Servings
- Good thing we made these into a 9x13 pan-size
.It seems like the perfect batch size for peanut bar snacking, sweet cravings and especially parties and holidays, giving you plenty of servings, maybe some leftovers if you're lucky. 24 bars worth, unless you want bigger.
- For a smaller batch, use an 8 or 9 inch pan
-size for 9 to 12 bars.
A Major Key Player Tip
Make sure you measure the flour correctly to get the perfect texture for soft and thick bars. Adding too much flour make bars, cookies and cakes crumbly and dry. These are perfect with a cold glass of your milk of choice. So many to choose from these days!
- Fluff up the flour in it's container before scooping it out, so the flour isn't packed.
- Spoon the flour gently into your measuring cup.
- Level the flour out with a knife by sliding it across the top of the measuring cup.
Storing & Freezing Bars
- Bars will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Because you love peanut butter treats, you'll be happy to know these Scrumptious Peanut Butter Loaded Bars are easy to prepare. If you're a total chocolate chip lover, you may want to snag the recipe of these Sheet Pan Perfect Chocolate Chip Bars as an added bonus! Let's have some bars!!
More Peanut Butter Bars to Crave!
- Reese's Pieces Magic Bars
- Sheet Pan Peanut Butter Chocolate Blondie Dream Bars
- Sheet Pan Perfect Peanut Butter Cup Cookie Bars
- Delish Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars
- Best Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars
- Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies
- M&M Christmas Cookies
- Soft Batch Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Reese's Pieces Cookies
- Reese's Cream Cheese Bars
- Biscoff White Chocolate Cookie Bars
Scrumptious Peanut Butter Loaded Bars
Ingredients
- ¾ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter creamy or crunchy
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour measure the flour correctly" in this post if you need instruction)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter chips
- 8.5 oz Reese's Baking Cups and Candy Pieces if you can't find, use mini Reese's PB Cups and Reese's Pieces Candy instead
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F. Line a 9x13 baking pan with parchment paper lightly sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Using a mixer, mix the butter, sugars, peanut butter, eggs and vanilla together until combined.
- Add in the flour, soda, and salt in and mix until just combined. Make sure you measure flour correctly, or cookies will be dry & crumbly. (Fluff flour, spoon flour into cup and level off with a knife.)
- Fold in most of the chocolate chips & & Reese's PB Cups and Candy Pieces. (Reserve some for the tops.)
- Transfer dough to pan. Add some additional chocolate chips & Reese's PB Cups and Candy Pieces on top if you wish.
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes, or until top is set. A toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
- Allow bars to cool in pan for at least 30 minutes before slicing and serving.
- Bars will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Notes
Texas Sheet Cake please! 🙂
Recipe inspired by my "Phenomenal" Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
Christie says
Yes please! I would love to try this because I am a big Peanut Butter lover!
keLly lynns sweets and treats says
Wowzers!! These are loaded with deliciousness! Pinning!!
Kim Lange says
Thank you Kelly! These are definitely loaded!
Valentina says
Kim, these sound amazing. Loaded indeed. With a few of my favorite things! 😀 They would not be safe around me. ~Valentina
Kim Lange says
Agree with not safe around one person! haha! Thank you Valentina! xo
Ben @ Havocinthekitchen says
Oh my goodness, these peanut butter bars sound absolutely delicious and look stunning! I am a huge peanut butter lover and I also love the texture of blondie bars, so this version packed with so many delicious things is right up my alley! Needless to say, these yellow and orange candy make the dessert so pretty and autumn-like.
Kim Lange says
Thank you Ben! You nailed the description and what I was going for! Thank you so much my sweet friend! xo