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PB&J Bars with Strawberry Jam

Your favorite sandwich just became a cookie! These PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving.

 

Your favorite sandwich just became a cookie! These PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving.

PB&J Cookie Bars

I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately. You’ve probably noticed a couple of recent cookie bars recipes.

And now I’m going to give you another one.

Cookie bars (or bar cookies, whatever you want to call them!) are my favorite dessert to make because they’re so easy. When it comes to baking, I prefer easy.

I’m one of those people who forgets to watch the clock.

Cookie bars are a little more forgiving when they’re in the oven a couple minutes too long. (Yes, I know I can set the timer. I just forget most of the time.)

My husband made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the other day for us to eat on the way from our ski condo to the UConn – SMU championship game. It got me to thinking about how good PB&J cookie bars would be.

 

UConn game

 

Here’s the view from our nosebleed seats. I think we were like 3 rows from the very last one.

Unfortunately, UConn lost. It was an exciting game…they almost came back at the end!

And then I made these yummy PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam today.

They’re going fast. I hope you enjoy them too!

 

PB&J Bars with strawberry jam 2

Your favorite sandwich just became a cookie! These PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving.

PB&J Cookie Bars

PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks of butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups of light brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 cups of oats
  • 1 cup strawberry jam or preserves

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Line a 13 x 9 glass baking pan with foil, with extra over the edges. When your bars are done, you can simply lift them out of the baking dish.
  3. Grease your foil with butter.
  4. Using a stand mixer, beat the butter until smooth.
  5. Add the brown sugar, peanut butter, and baking soda and continue to beat until combined.
  6. Then add vanilla and egg, continue to combine.
  7. Add flour to mixture slowly and continue beating until well mixed.
  8. Remove bowl from stand mixer, fold in oats, and mix in by spoon.
  9. Set aside about 1/2 cup of the dough, and press the rest of it into the bottom of your pan on top of the foil.
  10. Spread strawberry jam or preserves across the top of the dough.
  11. Sprinkle pieces of reserved dough across the entire top.
  12. Bake for approximately 35 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick cleanly,
  13. Remove from oven, allow to cool.
  14. Once cool, remove from pan, and cut into bars or squares.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 5455Total Fat: 199gSaturated Fat: 85gCholesterol: 342mgSodium: 4102mgCarbohydrates: 865gSugar: 532gProtein: 79g
The classic sandwich becomes a cookie! PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving. #cookies #barcookies #peanutbutterandjelly
The classic sandwich becomes a cookie! PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving. #cookies #barcookies #peanutbutterandjelly

Your favorite sandwich just became a cookie! These PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving. Perfect back to school snack recipe!

Your favorite sandwich just became a cookie! These PB&J Cookie Bars with Strawberry Jam are easy to make, and a delicious way to satisfy your sweet tooth craving. Perfect back to school snack recipe!

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KR

Monday 27th of February 2017

Oo I love strawberries :) and thanks for sharing recipe. Seems easy to do and very delicious

Donella

Tuesday 31st of January 2017

Oh my... I know they're a dessert, but I could totally have them for breakfast, right? Right? ;-) They look amazing... I know my hubs will love them.

Michelle L

Friday 27th of January 2017

Those look seriously delish...something I would love to try.

iamzoewatson

Friday 27th of January 2017

I have all the ingredients to make this right now! YAY me! Thanks for posting this on the #funtasticfriday link party! I'm sure my kids will appreciate me stumbling upon this today!

Audrey@That Recipe

Tuesday 24th of January 2017

You are right, these are a great after school snack. Or a while the kid is at school snack for me. Just sayin'

Thanks for sharing on Creative K Kids #TastyTuesdays

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