Apples of Gold Home School News

     The world is full of great recipes, I know. But there are those that are dear to our hearts, handed down from special people or in memory of special occasions. That’s the way of it with this recipe. I’m making them now. The house smells so good, it may attract bears – it is springtime, after all. Try these next winter, too, with your children gathered around, sipping a cup of home-made cocoa while you read them a good book.

     Grandma Marie Ruby Schoechert’s Scrumptious Peanut Butter Bars

½ c. brown sugar

½ c. white sugar

1 egg

½ c. peanut butter

½ c. butter or margarine/softened

     Blend well, then add:

1 c. oatmeal

1 c. flour

½ tsp. baking soda

     Mix it all well. Place in 9x13 pan and bake at 325 degrees for about 20 minutes or until just ever-so-lightly brown.

     Chocolate/Peanut Butter Frosting:

     In the meantime: mix about 2 cups of powdered sugar with ¼ cup of peanut butter and enough milk to make a very smooth, easily spreadable frosting. You may have to add more milk just before frosting because the peanut butter stiffens it up.

     Remove from oven and sprinkle top with ½ to ¾ bag of chocolate chips. Return to oven for about a minute, just long enough for chips to soften to a spreadable stage.

     When chocolate chips are melted, remove from oven, add frosting while bars are piping hot, and carefully swirl it in with the chocolate chips, making a nice, chocolatey/peanut-buttery topping.

     Eat some while they’re warm. Mmmmm!