Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
Ingredients
1 cup (1 stick)
Kowalski's Salted Butter, at room temperature, plus extra for buttering the pan
¾ cup
sugar
1
egg
1 ¼ cups
Kowalski's Organic Creamy Peanut Butter (from the Grocery Department)
¾ tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
1 ½ cups
flour
¾ tsp.
kosher salt
½ tsp.
baking powder
9 oz.
Kowalski's Jam (your choice of flavor), plus more for garnish, if desired
⅓ cup (approx.)
Kowalski's Classic Peanuts, coarsely chopped
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until fluffy (about 2 min.).
- Add egg, peanut butter and vanilla; beat until combined (about 2 min.).
- Stir in flour, salt and baking powder until thoroughly combined.
- Press ⅔ of the mixture evenly into a buttered 9" square baking pan lined with parchment paper.
- Spread jam on top of peanut butter mixture; crumble and scatter remaining dough evenly over top.
- Sprinkle with chopped peanuts; bake in preheated oven until top is dark golden (35-40 min.).
- Remove from oven; let cool completely.
- Cut into bars; top each bar with about ½ tsp. jam, if desired.
- Store at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
