Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Blondies

Recipe Rating:	1 Rating5
Categories:	Cookies, Other Desserts
Keywords:	brownies, bars
Serves:	20 bars
Prep Time:	10 Min
Cook Time:	30 Min

Ingredients

1 1/2 c	flour
1 tsp	baking powder
1/2 tsp	salt
1/2 c	unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 c	light brown sugar
2	eggs
4 tsp	vanilla extract
1/2 c	peanut butter (your preference, creamy or crunchy)
12 oz	reese's pieces (i think it's about 12 oz. i use a little over 3/4's of a 15 oz bag)

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Kelli Thomas

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Ralston, NE (pop. 5,943)

kelli1

Member Since Jun 2011

Kelli's Notes:

Yum. The rich taste of peanut butter with Reese's Pieces candies. I dare you to try to eat only one.

We are a household of peanut butter lovers. Entire jars of peanut butter have been known to go missing in a week and my 3 year old refers to the jar of Jif as "my peanut butter." My husband puts peanut butter on his pancakes- no joke. Needless to say, these bars never last very long. These bars would also be good with chocolate chips in place of the candies as well.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 13 x 9 pan. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl. Set aside. In a large bowl, beat butter and brown sugar until combined. Add the eggs, vanilla, and peanut butter.

Stir the flour in by hand. Then fold in the Reese's Pieces. (Note: the original recipe calls for a 12 oz bag of mini Reese's Pieces, but I cannot find those at the store, so I just use regular Reese's Pieces).

Spoon into prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

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Theresa Overton Treeissaved

Nov 28, 2012

Kelli, these look wonderful. I am looking for a recipe that I grew up with. We had them often in school. I believe that they were called Peanut Butter Bars. The looks of this one seems to be the same minus the Reese's pieces. I think I will try it without them to see how close it is. I tried for years to find them and have come close but just not exact... Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. :)