Peanut Butter Oatmeal Dream Bars

Oh Me.  Oh My.  There. Is. No. Words.  I think I finally found the mother of all peanut butter desserts.  No Lie.  This will be my new go to recipe for anyone requesting a dessert!  Of course I found this floating around Pinterest hiding away in my Dessert Board drooling over it for months.  But I try not to make desserts too often, because I'm the one sitting at home trying to hide them from myself all day.  But my friend was having a charity bake sale, so heck it was worth every calorie!  I have something similar posted in my Dessert section called PATCH BROWNIES,  that are super good.  But when you combine Sweetened condensed milk and chocolate, that's a lot of SWEET, which the Patch brownies do!  But these Peanut Butter Oatmeal Dream Bars combine Sweetened Condensed milk and Peanut Butter, oh wow!  That was the ticket.  Then it's crumbled with Reeses Peanut Butter cups & Chocolate Chips.  I highly recommend buying the King size Peanut Butter cup package, or the holiday Peanut Butter Cups such as the reeses eggs that are out right now, because there is a much higher peanut butter to chocolate ratio that makes it that much more better!  Did that sentence make sense?  Any who....

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Dream Bars:

1 Cup Melted Butter
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp. Baking Soda
2 1/4 Cup Quick Cooking Oatmeal
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1 tsp Salt
1/2 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 King Size Reeses Peanut Butter Cup Candy Bar
1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350.

Line a 9×13 pan with tin foil and spray lighlty with PAM.

In a medium mixing bowl, stir together melted butter, sugar, soda, oatmeal, flour & salt until it’s crumbly.

Set aside about 1 cup or a little more.

Press the rest of the crust into prepared pan. Bake crust for 10 minutes. 

While crust is cooking, in a small bowl, stir together the peanut butter and sweetened condensed milk.

Once crust has baked, evenly pour and spread peanut butter filling over the baked crust. Be gentle so you don’t pull up the warm crust while you spread the filling. 

Evenly sprinkle the reserved crumbs on top of the peanut butter and sweetened condensed milk mixture. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, remove from oven and sprinkle the chopped candy bars and chocolate chips evenly over the top. Return to oven to bake for another 5-10 minutes or until topping is light golden brown and candy bars/chips are melting.

Allow to cool to make cutting and serving easier.