I don't know about you, but at my elementary school they served AMAZING desserts . . . sometimes I find myself craving the lunch ladies' chocolate cake or homemade cinnamon rolls . . . nowadays I don't think that they even serve dessert in elementary school! Poor kids don't know what they are missing . . .
Elyse gave me this recipe a couple of months ago from Mom's old recipe box and it is seriously SPOT ON to what the lunch ladies served! Trust me- you have to try these!
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
2 cups oatmeal (not quick)
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Cream first 3 ingredients together. Add the vanilla, eggs, and peanut butter and combine. Add the remaining ingredients and mix together. Spread dough on a greased jelly roll pan (18x13x1"). Make at 350 degrees for 15 minutes (until golden brown). While hot spread 1 1/2 cups peanut butter on top. Cool so that the peanut butter has become solid again (I usually throw them in the fridge so they set up faster and so I can eat them sooner!). Spread your favorite chocolate frosting on top and cut into bars.
Here is my favorite frosting recipe for these bars:
1 stick (1/2 cup) margarine, softened
1/4 cup milk
1-2 tsp vanilla (depending on your taste)
3 Tablespoons cocoa (I have never really exactly measured)
2-3 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1-2 tsp vanilla (depending on your taste)
3 Tablespoons cocoa (I have never really exactly measured)
2-3 cups of powdered sugar
Mix all ingredients with a hand mixer until smooth and spread on top of bars.
Yum! I'm a sucker for anything with Peanut Butter and I can't wait to try these.
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Those look great! I'm going to try them.
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Looks great! Thanks for stopping by and commenting and following! I'm following you back!
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Oh my, these bars look so good! I love anything with peanut butter. Camille, thanks for stopping by my blog and following. I'm so glad you found some recipes to try. I'm enjoying browsing through your blog and am a new follower. It must be amazing to be a group of 6 sisters. I have 3 daughters and they are the best of friends :) Have a great day!
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Okay...so my mouth is watering as I read this! I loved these too!
ReplyDeletesaved this recipe... yummo! thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteDang...now I'm going to have to try those and apparently, I'm going to have to try the cookies and cream cheesecake bars that are looking at my right now too! =P
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oh my ever since I went to Savannah I've hankering for one of those...
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Oh my yumminess! This looks delish! I am a new follower and would love it if you follow back! Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThey do look tasty!
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Looks like you had a good school. These days its all prepackaged fast food. Kids would love to have lunch ladies like the one you had. Thank you for participating in my linky party at Joy of Desserts.
ReplyDeleteThis looks FAN-TASTIC! I can't wait to try these, they look so yummy!
ReplyDeleteThis looks good. Would come over and share some of your recipes at my link party Cast Party Wednesday tomorrow? I guess I went to the wrong school I don't remember "good" desserts. HA!
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These look delish!
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okay, if these are anything like what my lunch ladies served I will be so happy! They were seriously the best! I am going to have to try these out! I would love for you to come and share these at my Fantastic Friday link party. http://ironvioletdesigns.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteThese sound divine!!
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I am a newish follower. This looks like a great recipe. I am the cookie monster's grandmother and am always looking for new cookie recipes to try. This one looks scrumptious. I am looking forward to exploring your blog further.
ReplyDeletethat sounds so yummy I can almost smell them! Wow, great post, MAria http://caribbeanmissionarywife.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteI have opened this website up two separate times. I am drawn to the deliciousness. I a a follower.
ReplyDeleteIf I enjoyed PB, I'd be all over these! lol They still look good though. Thanks for linking up to this week's Catch a Glimpse party.
ReplyDeleteYUM!!! I want to make these RIGHT NOW. I wish I had the oatmeal! Saving this one for sure!
ReplyDeleteI just found these via Pintrest. They looked so good I had to click over and have a look. Lucky for me I have everything I need to make them.
ReplyDeletethank you i have been looking for this recipe for a long time. my grandma was a lunch lady and made these all the time.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely wicked!! These are not something MY lunch lady would ever make.=) bellesbazaar-heather.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteWow, thanks for this!I made them & everyone loved them & then I couldn't find the recipe again but I did just now, Yeah!
ReplyDeleteWow! These are great! Never heard of them before..my boyfriend loves anything Peanut Butter and Chocolate..so I gave it a try. The only thing i did different was to use DH canned Milk Chocolate frosting. Will be making these again and again ! thanks girls :)
ReplyDeleteThey look yum but omg 2 cups sugar and 1 cup butter. It's far too unhealthy for me to make :(
ReplyDeleteOoo, I have this recipe from Gooseberry Patch. Good!!!
ReplyDeleteMade these for 5th Sunday potluck and they were spot on! We all reminisced about these from the Old Lunchroom Days.
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ReplyDeleteThey are in the fridge setting up - ack - it's so hard to wait! I can't wait to eat them! I love that they have chocolate frosting on top and not just melted chocolate chips. I was really fighting the peanut butter trying to spread it on top - ha ha ha - I tried to plop it all on at once and it just sunk straight down and made a hole, ack! quickly scooped it back up - what a mess! it took a lot of fineness to finally get that peanut butter to spread and not smush the bars.
ReplyDeleteYou must have gone to a better school than I did or just had a better Lunch Lady, I don't remember any of our desserts being so yummy, going to have to give these a try, nothing better than Peanut butter and chocolate!
ReplyDeleteAnyone have that school lunch chocolate cake recipe?
ReplyDeleteI can get it for you on Monday. But it is for 600 servings!
DeleteI need clarification before I make these. There are 1&1/2 cups of Peanut Butter listed in the instructions that I don't find in the list of ingredients. Is this an additional 1&1/2 cups of PB?
ReplyDeleteHi Diane,
DeleteYou add 1 cup of peanut butter to the dough and the other 1/2 cup goes on top of the peanut butter bars after they come out of the oven.