Reese’s Potato Chip Cookie Bars – the best salty/sweet treat for peanut butter lovers- EVER! Incredibly easy yummy bar recipe loaded with peanut butter cups!
It’s time for peanut butter bash again! Are you excited? I sure am because I love love love peanut butter! This month the challenge was to pair peanut butter with potato chips. Sounds like a perfectly salty/rich & sweet combo that I had to jump in on. So I decided that another yummy bar recipe would be the best way to combine these awesome flavors. I made one of our favorite shortbread bar recipes & added chocolate chips, chopped mini peanut butter cups & crushed potato chips. I love this recipe because it’s so incredibly easy to make & they are just so good that they only last a few hours at best. No kidding! I no sooner photographed these & served them after dinner & the next thing I knew the container was GONE! Lickedy split!
Reese’s Potato Chip Cookie Bars
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Oh the buttery goodness of shortbread paired with chocolate! I love it so much. I suppose that’s why these are so incredibly addictive. Adding that bit of salty crunch in the potato chips just put these over the top. Usually, the richness of chocolate & peanut butter would slow us down. But adding the chips cut the sweetness just enough that it made it so easy to just keep grabbing one after another & another. Bad right? Well – I was just extra good for the rest of the week to even it out. No guilt!
For this recipe I used these items…
REESE’S Peanut Butter Cups Miniatures
Reese’s Potato Chip Cookie Bars
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Ingredients
- 2 sticks butter - softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1-3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup crushed potato chips
- 8 mini Reese's peanut butter cups- chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Line 9x9 baking pan with parchment - set aside
- In mixer bowl - combine butter & sugar & beat until fluffy
- Add in vanilla & flour - beat well
- Fold in chocolate chips
- Spread out into prepared pan
- Top with chips & peanut butter cups
- Bake 30-35 minutes or until just set & golden on top
- Remove & allow to cool to room temperature before cutting
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You really have to give these a try – I guarantee they will be a new family favorite!
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Tamar says
Oh man oh man!! These sound too good to be true!
ps hope you’ll link up at Little Things Thursday!
Emma @ Bake Then Eat says
What a great way to combine peanut butter and potato chips. These bars look so good!
Terrie Guillou says
making these bars that look so yummy right now. Are there no eggs? when I mix the flour, vanilla, butter and sugar it’s really dry, not forming into a dough??
Gina Kleinworth says
Hi Terrie, I know it seems odd to not have eggs, but it’s a classic shortbread recipe. It is a little more dry than you would expect with a cookie bar – but the butter does all the magic.
Julie says
I had the same question. The dough was extremely stiff and after baking and cooling, the bars came out of the pan in crumbles 🙁
Gina Kleinworth says
I’m sorry to hear that Julie. Were you scooping your flour (which compacts it & adds more to the measuring cup) or did you spoon into the measuring cup & level off? It’s important to do the latter so you aren’t inadvertently adding more flour than called for, which would make these more dry than normal.
Leslie says
You are so going to be the death of my diet. These look and sound delicious!