{"id":9764,"date":"2012-09-18T05:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T10:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2021-05-01T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T12:19:34","slug":"peanut-butter-chocolate-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/18\/peanut-butter-chocolate-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/17\/apple-cake\/food-header-1-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,144\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Food-Header-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?fit=640%2C144&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6237\" title=\"Food-Header-1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=640%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Food-Header-12.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9766\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/18\/peanut-butter-chocolate-bars\/chocpbbars\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?fit=640%2C523&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,523\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chocpbbars\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?fit=640%2C523&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9766\" title=\"chocpbbars\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?resize=640%2C523&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?resize=300%2C245&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/chocpbbars.jpg?resize=183%2C150&amp;ssl=1 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new school year begins and I&#8217;m gearing up for the bake sales! I&#8217;ve been testing out a few new recipes to go beyond the usual cupcake and brownie route. These were easy to throw together and are very rich &#8211; so cut smallish squares. What are you waiting for? Get baking!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 &#8211; 18.25 ounce box yellow cake mix<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup butter, melted<\/li>\n<li>1 cup peanut butter<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 12 ounce package of semi-sweet chocolate chips<\/li>\n<li>1 &#8211; 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons butter<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/2 teaspoons vanilla<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Preheat oven to 325\u00c2\u00ba.<\/p>\n<p>2. Combine cake mix, 1\/2 cup melted butter, peanut butter, and eggs in a bowl with an electric mixer.\u00c2\u00a0Press into a 9 x 13 pan &#8211; reserving 1 1\/2 cups of the mix to crumble on top.<\/p>\n<p>3. In a small pot melt the chocolate chips,\u00c2\u00a0sweetened condensed milk, and 2 tablespoons butter. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>4. Spread the chocolate mixture over the dough with a spatula and crumble the reserved cake mixture on top.<\/p>\n<p>5. Bake for 25 minutes, let cool, and cut into bars.<\/p>\n<p>This is another gem from <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201203133834\/https:\/\/cakemixdoctor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cake Doctor<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new school year begins and I&#8217;m gearing up for the bake sales! I&#8217;ve been testing out a few new recipes to go beyond the usual cupcake and brownie route. These were easy to throw together and are very rich &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/18\/peanut-butter-chocolate-bars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1238,4],"tags":[1960,1179,1959],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovin-from-the-oven","category-news","tag-bake-sales","tag-chocolate","tag-peanut-butter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17060,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/08\/12\/no-bake-peanut-butter-bars\/","url_meta":{"origin":9764,"position":0},"title":"No Bake Peanut Butter Bars","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A recipe for no bake bars in August is a good thing. 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