Peanut Butter Blondies

Ingredients:

• 4 tbs butter
• 1/2 cup peanut butter (I used crunchy because it's all I had)
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
  

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
   
2. Line an 8×8 pan with foil and lightly spray with PAM. (I didn't do this. I don't know what the point of lining a pan with foil is. Anyone have any idea?)
   
3. In a medium microwave safe mixing bowl melt the butter for 20-30 seconds until almost/all melted. Allow to cool for 5 minutes.
4. Stir the peanut butter into the butter until creamy and smooth.
   
5. Add the brown sugar to the butter/peanut butter and stir until smooth.
   
6. Add the egg and vanilla and stir to combine.
   
7. Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the peanut butter mixture and stir just to combine.
   
8. Gently fold in chocolate chips.
   
9. Pour into prepared pan and use a greased spatula to evenly spread mixture in pan and level the top.
   
10. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until set in the middle.
    

I actually doubled this recipe and baked in a 9x13 pan (without foil lining). The double batch baked for about 35 minutes, but next time I may take them out a few minutes earlier. Double batch made 28 nice size squares.

I found the recipe on a few blogs including Baking Blonde.