Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars

Whip upwards beautifully-marbled Peanut Butter together with Chocolate Shortbread Bars. A uncomplicated shortbread crust is layered amongst white chocolate together with peanut butter, together with topped off amongst a marbled swirl of semi-sweet chocolate. They're lilliputian bars of pure deliciousness!

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Now let's speak scrumptious Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars! ... photographed on my gorgeous cherryBLOX cutting board, of course.

These lilliputian bars of deliciousness were a happy accident. An human activeness of pure desperation, actually. Yup, I totally messed upwards a recipe ... annnddddd these were born. With a layer of scrumptious shortbread covered inward a thick layer of white chocolate together with peanut butter, all topped off amongst a marbled swirl of semi-sweet chocolate, how could the accident move anything but happy?

You know those days when you're really curt on fourth dimension ... I mean, similar crunching correct downward to the really concluding 2nd y'all direct keep ... together with you've committed to brand something for an event? Well, the twenty-four hours these bars were born was ane of those days.

I had committed to bringing the sweets for a grouping get-together, which is something I dear to do. 'Cause, every bit y'all know if y'all come upwards past times hither often, I'll direct keep whatever excuse I tin post away to bake. So I decided to brand a peanut butter together with chocolate bark I'd had my oculus on for a while.

Well, let's just move out it at ... the bark didn't work. At all. It tasted totally yummy, but it was ooey-gooey together with didn't educate at all. A total mess. And I didn't direct keep fourth dimension to brand something else. Ugh.

I fretted together with fretted. What was I going to do? I couldn't demo upwards at the get-together empty-handed!

And hence an persuasion struck. What if I turned the {failed} bark into the topping of a bar? I could push clit that off pretty quickly, I thought! {I had all of most forty minutes earlier I needed to move at the get-together.}

I chop-chop mixed upwards together with baked upwards a uncomplicated shortbread crust. Then, I cutting large pieces of the ooey-gooey peanut butter {failed} bark inward sheets together with layed it on exceed of the warm crust ... stuck it dorsum inward the oven for just a infinitesimal or 2 to melt together with adhere the bark onto the crust ... together with hence flash-chilled it all inward the freezer.

Whew! It worked! And it was deeee-licious.

Probably needless to say, I was a wee fighting belatedly for the get-together. But happily, these Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars were a total hit.

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Now, here's how to brand these beautiful bars the non-accident way.

Line a baking dish amongst aluminum foil to create a sling ... you're doing this because it makes it soooooo much easier to cutting the squares. Simply elevator the entire slab out of the pan past times the foil overhang, laid it on a cutting board (ahem ... similar a gorgeous cherryBLOX personalized cutting board), push clit dorsum the foil from the edges, together with cut. Easy-peasy.

Then, press a uncomplicated shortbread dough mixture evenly into the bottom of the pan together with bake it up.

While the crust is baking, melt together some white chocolate together with crunchy peanut butter. Resist the temptation to swallow it all past times the spoonful. It'll move difficult ... but y'all tin post away practise it.

Spread the peanut butter mixture evenly over the shortbread crust every bit before long every bit it comes out of the oven ...

... together with hence drib on some stripes of melted semi-sweet chocolate, similar this:

To create the truly pretty marbled effect, but run a precipitous knife dorsum together with forth through the peanut butter mixture, perpendicular to the chocolate stripes, similar this:

Aren't they pretty?

So, what are y'all waiting for? Go whip upwards a batch of these totally heavenly happy-accident Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars ... your tum volition move hence glad y'all did! And move certain to create your really ain personalized cherryBLOX cutting board to cutting them on. I'm pretty certain these gorgeous cutting boards may just brand these scrumptious bars sense of savor even better.

Marbled Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shortbread Bars

Source: A Tracey creation

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. butter, just slightly softened
1 (12 oz.) package white chocolate chips
1 1/4 c. crunchy peanut butter
1/2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions

FOR THE CRUST: In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, together with salt. Cut butter into pocket-size pieces together with add together to flour mixture. Beat amongst an electrical mixer on irksome speed until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs amongst a sandy consistency. Press flour mixture evenly into the bottom of a 9x13" baking dish lined amongst aluminum foil (let the foil overhang the edges of the pan, creating a foil 'sling'). Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
FOR THE PEANUT BUTTER TOPPING: In a saucepan over medium-low heat, melt together the white chocolate together with peanut butter. Spread evenly over the still-warm crust.
FOR THE MARBLED CHOCOLATE: Melt the semi-sweet chocolate chips (about 45 seconds inward the microwave or inward a pocket-size saucepan over medium-low heat); stir until smooth. Drizzle stripes over the warm peanut butter topping. To marbelize, utilisation a precipitous knife to describe lines through the peanut butter mixture perpendicular to the chocolate stripes.
Refrigerate for most thirty minutes or until set. Use the edges of the foil 'sling' to elevator bars from the pan. Cut into pocket-size squares.

Enjoy!