Easy and Delicious Peanut Butter Fingers Recipe

A yummy recipe for scrumptious peanut butter fingers that are reminiscent of your elementary school days.

What's not to love about the delicious combination of chocolatey goodness and creamy peanut butter? This mixture of flavors is perhaps one of my favorite treat combos, taking me back to days of school lunch and the amazing peanut butter fingers from the school cafeteria.

Our homemade version of this bite-sized chocolate and peanut butter cookie is a family favorite and perfect for any entertaining occasion. One bite and you'll be reaching for more! So grab an apron and let's dive in to these step-by-step instructions to make this tasty treat.

Why You Will Love This Easy Recipe

• Great for taking to parties or family events
• Finger dessert - no utensils required unless desired
• Budget-friendly
• Feeds a lot
• Quick prep time
• If you love Reese's candy, you'll love this too

Ingredients for Peanut Butter Fingers

This original recipe for peanut butter fingers requires simple ingredients that most will already have in their pantry.

• ¾ cup butter
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 ¼ cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• ¾ cup peanut butter
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 2 cups oats
• 1 cup whipped peanut butter
• 1 bag chocolate chips

Tools Needed

• KitchenAid or another food mixer (a large bowl will work in a pinch)
• Large spoon or rubber spatula
• Measuring cups
• Measuring spoons
• Frosting knife
• 12x16 Cookie sheet or jelly roll pan
• Double boiler pot for melting chocolate chips

Simple Steps to Make Peanut Butter Fingers Recipe

1. Preheat Oven

Begin by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Make sure you allow at least 15 minutes or so to let it heat up and sit at the right temperature.

2. Mix Ingredients Together

Gather all of your wet and dry ingredients except for the whipped peanut butter and chocolate chips, and toss in the bowl of your stand mixer. You can also use a large mixing bowl if you don't have a KitchenAid. Mix all of these ingredients together until combined.

3. Press Mixture into Sheet

Take your peanut butter mixture and press it into the bottom of the pan that has been greased or lined with parchment paper. Make sure that your mixture is distributed fairly proportionate and level.

4. Bake Mixture

When your cookie dough mixture is completely pressed into the pan, put your tray in the preheated oven and bake it for 10-15 minutes until a nice golden brown. When your bars are done baking, remove from the oven and leave the tray out to cool.

5. Make the Whipped Peanut Butter

While the peanut butter mixture is baking, you'll want to make the whipped peanut butter. Put one cup of peanut butter into your mixer to beat. Whipping the peanut butter is easiest with a KitchenAid's flat beater. Spread the extra peanut butter onto your bars then put the tray into the freezer until it's pretty cold and somewhat solid.

6. Melt Chocolate and Add

While your peanut butter topping is cooling in the freezer, make your chocolate topping. Melt chocolate chips on low-medium heat in a boiler pot or another pan. Pour your melted chocolate sauce onto the whipped peanut butter bars and spread with your frosting knife until everything is evenly covered.

Put your tray back in the freezer until the chocolate layer hardens so each layer has a separation. Serve at room temperature!

Variations for PB Fingers

• Healthier option - for a healthier version, you can try substituting regular PB for reduced-fat peanut butter or using a different sweetener
• Use milk chocolate, semisweet chocolate morsels, or even white chocolate chips for your chocolate frosting
• We use old-fashioned oats for this recipe, but you could also try quick oats
• If you don't want the whole sheet covered with a chocolate layer, you can also add enough milk to get your chocolate sauce to a drizzling consistency and drizzle it on the peanut butter instead

What to Do With Leftover Butter Fingers

This is one of our favorite recipes so when we have a family gathering, this treat disappears by the end of the night. But if you are lucky enough to have some left to snack on later, you can store leftovers in a lidded container in the fridge for at least a few days.

You can also try chopping up a few bars and use it for peanut butter granola on your oatmeal or yogurt. You'll know at the first bite that it is just too good to pass up.

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I hope you love this elementary school past time as much as we do.

Happy Baking!

Brooke