Project Dessert

Yield: 1 cookie sheet

Time: Prep – 12 minutes, Cook – 18-20 minutes

3/4 cup margarine

3/4 cup creamy peanut butter

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 tsp water

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp vanilla sugar

1 1/2 cups flour

1 1/2 cups cooking oats

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

• In bowl, cream margarine, peanut butter, sugars, and water.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla sugar, and then add rest of ingredients.
• Spread onto cookie sheet and bake at 325 for 18-20 minutes

Topping:

1 1/4 cup chocolate chips

1/2 cup peanut butter

• Melt together chocolate chips and peanut butter and spread over warm bars.

Tips: When spreading the batter in the cookie sheet make sure to spread everything evenly in the pan. For the topping I used baking chocolate instead of chocolate chips which I find is easier to melt. These bars tasted really good but they tend to crumble easily.

Price to make: $2.88

Yield: 8x8 pan

Time: Prep – 10 minutes, Cook – 30 minutes

8oz margarine

1 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

2 cups flour

1 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup apricot preserves

• Cream margarine.
• Gradually add sugar, and then egg yolks.
• Blend mixture well.
• Gradually add flour.
• Fold in most of the nuts, while saving some for topping.
• Spread half of batter into 8x8 pan.
• Spread apricot preserves on top and then rest of batter.
• Top with remaining nuts.
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until  lightly brown on top.
• Cut into bars while still warm.

Tips: After spreading half of batter and the apricot preserves I found it very difficult to spread the other half of batter. When I tried it just pushed around the apricot has the batter is thick and the apricot very soft. Once the bars were done and cooled down they got a little tough to work with as I had cut them and then left them in the pan. When I finally got them out they tasted really good!