Peanut Butter Fingers

I thought it fitting for my first "Fabulous Food" to have a peanut butter recipe.  This is one or our favorite desserts; my Grandma’s recipe for P.B. Fingers…She used to be a school lunch lady when they would make lunch from scratch – so these are the real thing…YUM!  This recipe will make 2 cookie sheets full.

Crust:

1 ½ cups butter                      

1 cup sugar                           

1 ½ cups brown sugar            

3 eggs                                    

1 Tbls vanilla                         

1 ½ cups peanut butter
1 ½ tsp baking soda
¾ tsp salt
3 cups flour (add another ½ cup if dough is too moist after mixing everything in)
3 cups oats

Cream butter and sugars.  Add vanilla and eggs.  Add peanut butter and mix, then add all dry ingredients.  Spread on 2 cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 5 minutes.  Rotate pans and bake another 5 minutes.  Just bake to a very light brown – almost doughy.  Do not overbake!

(After I bake these I will usually cover one in plastic wrap and freeze it for the next time I need a dessert – then you just pull it out, thaw, and put the p.b. and frosting on)

Spread thin layer of smooth peanut butter on top – it is easier to do when the crust is still a little warm.

Then put chocolate frosting on top:

Frosting:

½ cup butter

½ cup  evaporated milk

½ cup cocoa

3 ½ to 4 cups powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

Enjoy!