Yummy Peanut Butter Bars

A quick and easy recipe for peanut butter bars topped with chocolate glaze!

If you love chocolate and peanut butter, you'll love this easy recipe for peanut butter cookies baked in a pan topped with a simple chocolate glaze. It's a winning recipe for peanut butter and chocolate fans everywhere.

Did you know the US is the world's largest supplier and consumer of peanut butter?

I'm not surprised. We consider it a staple at our house, often enjoying it on toast for breakfast or as a comforting sandwich at lunch. We also love to turn peanut butter into a savory sauce for kebabs.

But our absolute favorite way to eat peanut butter is when it is baked into sweet treats such as these bars, peanut butter brownies, and peanut butter cookies.

I can't find a jar of peanut butter large enough to satisfy our cravings.

Go ahead and whip up a batch of these chocolate topped easy peanut butter bars and watch how fast they disappear. These yummy bars can be made with either creamy or crunchy peanut butter, whichever you prefer.

This recipe is adapted from Sylvia's Cakes & Breads: Famous Recipes from a Small Maine Kitchen, a wonderful cookbook, now out-of-print, I picked up years ago while visiting my parents on the coast of Maine.

Tools for the Cookie Baker:

A High Quality Stainless Steel Spatula for lifting cookies from your cookie sheets.

If counter space is tight, you'll love these Stackable Cooling Racks - perfect for cookies, bars, brownies and any other baking you might be doing.