A Week Of Peanut Butter Recipes: Peanut Butter Fingers

This recipe takes me back to my days in high school, because it came straight out of the school lunchroom recipes in the area I lived. A cousin of mine had a relative that worked in one of the lunchrooms and she posted it on FB. They are so YUMMY and a favorite of the kids.  

As I began subbing in my old junior high, I would eat two of these most everyday I was working. Due to new guidelines implemented recently; they have been declared unhealthy. I am sure all the peanut allergy precautions also have something to do it, which I know from experience can't be taken lightly.

The original recipe is enough for 2 - 9"X13" baking sheets. I have cut that down into a half a recipes. However, if you want to feed a crowd, just double the measurements in the recipe. 

Peanut Butter Fingers 

• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 1 stick of butter, softened
• 1/3 cup of peanut butter
• 1 egg
• 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract
• 1 cup of rolled oats
• 1 cup of flour (I use 1/2 cup of all-purpose and 1/2 cup of whole wheat.)
• 1/2 baking soda
• 1/4 tsp of salt

 

All the ingredients you will need.

 

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9"X13" baking sheet or pan. 

 

Cream together the sugars, butter, and peanut butter. Add the egg and vanilla. Mix well. 

Cream the sugars and butter together.

All mixed.

Add the egg and vanilla.

Mix together.

In another bowl; add the oats, flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix together to combine.

Combine the dry ingredients.

Add to the sugar mixture. Mix until well combined. 

Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture and combine.

All combined.

Spread in a greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 2o minutes until lightly brown. Remove from oven and set on a cooling rack.  

It will take a little elbow power and work to get it spread evenly.

Ready for the oven.

Out of the oven and ready for the icing.

 
Peanut Butter Finger Icing

• 1/2 cup of evaporated milk
• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla
• pinch of salt

All the ingredients you will need. 

 

Add all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix until well combined. 

 

Add all the ingredients and combine.

The finished delicious product.

 

Pour over the finished baked crust while it is still hot and spread.

 

Add the icing to the crust that is just out of the oven.

 

Let it cool completely so the icing will set. When cooled, cut into bars and enjoy!

 

Now you just have to wait until it cools and the icing sets, then you can enjoy!

 

This recipe is fairly simple to make and takes only a few minutes to prepare. Each time I make it, my thoughts go back to when things in my life were really simple. It is simply a perfect recipe!