Good Eating Monday: Easy Peanut Butter Cookie Bars!
Today's Good Eating Recipe is my creation: Peanut Butter Cookie Bars! I'm not so good with baking cookies---I either get busy or forget and miss the timer going off, so my cookies end up being a little on the dark side. That's why I prefer "bar cookies" in a 10 x 13 pan. So I decided to figure out how to turn two packets of Betty Crocker Peanut Butter Cookie Mix into a 10 x 13 pan of bar cookies. Peanut Butter Cookies are, in themselves, a fairly dry dough, since you roll them into balls in your hands to make them. To make them work in a 10 x 13 pan as bars meant increasing the liquids called for on the cookie mix packs just enough to make the mix spreadable in a pan, yet not so much to make them cakey. They need to retain that peanut butter cookie texture to be just right as a bar. So, it took me 3 tries to get the right ratio. The first try was too thick, but tasted perfect; the second try was too cakey and the final try was just right. You'...