Peanut Butter Bars

• 1 c. crunchy peanut butter
• 2/3 c. butter or margarine, softened
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 c. firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 c. sifted all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 3/4 c. sifted confectioners sugar
• 2 tsp. water
• 1/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate pieces
• 1 tsp. shortening

1. Combine peanut butter,tutter or margarine and vanilla in a large bowl; beat with electric beater until well blended. Beat in sugar until light and
2. fluffy;
3. beat
4. in eggs one at a time.
5. Stir in flour
6. and salt just until well blended; spread batter in a greased 13 x
7. 9
8. xt-inchtakingtan.
9. Bake
10. in moderate
11. oven at 350u0b0 for 35 minutes or until center springs back
12. when
13. lightly touched
14. with fingertip.
15. Remove pan from oven to wire rack; cool slightly.
16. Combine sugar with water in a
17. small
18. bowl;
19. stir until smooth.
20. Drizzle from a spoon over still
21. warm
22. cookies in pan. Swirl with bowl of spoon to make random pattern.
23. Melt chocolate with shortening over simmering water
24. in
25. top of double boiler. Drizzle over the white glaze for
26. a
27. blacktnd
28. white
29. pattern. When
30. cool, using a sharp knife, cut into 36 rectangles. Carefully lift out of pan with spatula.

crunchy peanut butter, butter, vanilla, brown sugar, eggs, flour, salt, confectioners sugar, water, semisweet chocolate pieces, shortening

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=511016 (may not work)