Double Frosted Peanut Butter Bars

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 2/3 cup margarine, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup flour, sifted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
• 2 teaspoons water
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon shortening

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees. grease 13x9 pan.
• 2 combine peanut butter, margarine, and vanilla in a large bowl. cream well.
• 3 beat in brown sugar til light and fluffy. add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
• 4 blend in flour and salt.
• 5 spread batter in prepared pan. bake 30-35 minutes or til center springs back when lightly touched. cool slightly in pan on wire rack.
• 6 mix powdered sugar with water in small bowl, stil til smooth. drizzle from spoon over cookies in pan; swirl with back of spoon to make random pattern.
• 7 melt chocolate chips and shortening over simmering water in top of double boiler. drizzle over the glaze for black and zig zag pattern. when cool, cut into rectangles.