Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars Food

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE BARS

Steps:

• beat butter and peanut butter for 30 seconds. add sugars and beat until fluffy. add remaining ingredients, except chocolate chips, in order given. spread into 9 x 13 pan. bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. sprinkle with chocolate chips and let stand for 5 minutes. spread chocolate and cool. prepare icing by beating ingredients together for a drizzling consistency. drizzle over chocolate layer and cut into bars.

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Have ready at least 2 baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
• Cream butter until smooth.
• Add peanut butter and both sugars and beat until combined well.
• Add egg and beat well.
• Stir in flour and baking soda gradually until well combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
• Using a meatball scooper or a spoon, scoop out small portions of dough and drop onto parchment lined cookie sheets, leaving 2" gap between each cookie.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until cookies are just firm around the edges- don't overbake- if you wait until they are brown on top, they will be too hard.
• Slide parchment sheet, cookies and all, carefully off pan and onto your counter, set a new piece of parchment paper onto your baking sheet and repeat until all dough is baked.
• Meanwhile, as the next batch bakes, remove baked cookies from the parchment and let cool completely on wire racks.
• Wipe off the crumbs from the old sheet of parchment and you can reuse it for your next batch.
• These will keep about 3 days stored in a cookie tin (for crisp cookies) or an airtight plastic container (for softer cookies).

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHIP CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• To make the crust: Using a food processor, crush graham crackers into tiny crumbs.
• Add sugars and pulse until combined.
• Add butter and pulse until mixture begins to come together.
• Press into bottom and up sides of a 9 inch glass pie plate.
• Bake for 8-9 minutes, remove and allow to cool to room temperature.
• While crust is cooling, make the filling: Using stand mixture, beat cream cheese, sour cream, peanut butter, vanilla and powdered sugar.
• Fold in Cool Whip Free and mini-chocolate chips by hand; careful not to over mix or the cool whip will lose its fluff.
• Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes, the longer the better!
• Remove from fridge immediately before serving.

CHOCOLATE CHIP PEANUT BUTTER CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Prepare a springform pan.
• To make the crust: combine crumbs with melted butter.
• Press into bottom of the prepared pan.
• For the filling: with an electric mixer, combine all ingrediemts (except chocolate chips).
• Beat for about 5-6 minutes until smooth and creamy.
• Add in chocolate chips; mix to combine.
• Pour into crust.
• Bake until set, about 55-60 minutes.
• Let stand at room temperature for about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile prepare the topping: blend all topping ingredients together, and spread over cheesecake.
• Bake for another 10 minutes more.
• Let cake cool at room temperature, then refrigerate for 5 or more hours (overnight is better!).

PEANUT BUTTER CHIP BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 9x13-inch pan.
• Mix together the peanut butter and butter.
• Add the the brown sugar and mix well.
• Add the eggs, honey, and vanilla; mix until smooth.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, and ginger.
• Gradually add the dry ingredients to the batter. Don't mix too much.
• Fold in the chocolate chips.
• Pour into the pan and bake at 350°F for 30-35 minutes. Do not over bake!
• Cool before cutting.