Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Grandma's peanut butter fingers

PEANUT BUTTER FINGERS
(Bake-Off Winner -- Sharon Nulsen)
(Gwen Johnson's Recipe - from a little Pillsbury cookbook)

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Makes about 4 dozen small bars.

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup Pillsbury's Best all purpose flour
1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
1 6-oz pkg (1 cup) Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 to 4 tablespoons milk

Cream butter.  Gradually add sugars; cream well.  Blend in egg, 1/3 cup peanut butter, soda, salt and vanilla.  Add flour and rolled oats; mix well.  Spread in buttered 13x9-inch pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes until lightly browned.  Sprinkle immediately with morsels.  Let stand 5 minutes

Combine confectioners' sugar, 1/4 cub peanut butter and milk;  mix well.  Spread melted morsels.  Drizzle with peanut butter mixture.