The Best Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

These Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars are made with a shortbread base and filled with jam and peanut butter chips. They’re the perfect back-to-school treat!

 Back to School

Back to school is around the corner and there’s nothing that makes me think of “school” more than peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I used to have it for lunch nearly every day, and it’s still something I love to whip up today. It’s also one of my favorite flavor combinations to use in desserts – peanut butter and jelly cake, peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies, peanut butter and jelly muffins, peanut butter and jelly cupcakes, and these easy peanut butter and jelly bars.

The Best Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

These easy-to-make PB&J bars are so simple to make and taste just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If you’re like me and love this simple sandwich, you’ll go nuts for these yummy bars! The shortbread crust and crumble is much like the white bread, stuffed with a jam flavor of your choice (I used raspberry jam) and peanut butter chips.

I highly recommend that you use the Hershey’s Peanut Butter Chips when you’re making these bars. They are the best of the best and taste better than any other peanut butter chip I’ve tried.

Ingredients You’ll Need for Easy Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

That’s it! It’s a short list, which means this dessert bar recipe is a breeze to whip up. About 15 minutes prep time and 30 minutes bake time.

How to Make Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

After the bars have baked, allow them to cool for about 15 minutes before serving. They’re delicious served warm and also at room temperature.

PB&J Bars

5 from 1 vote

These delicious Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars are literally the classic sandwich in dessert form!

Servings 15 bars

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Ingredients

  

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• 3 cups (360 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons (6 g) baking powder
• 1 cup (226 g) cold unsalted butter
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 1/2 cup (487 g) strawberry jam, or flavor of your choice
• 2 1/2 cups (450 g) REESE'S Peanut Butter Chips, divided

Instructions

 

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9×13″ baking pan. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, and baking powder. Set aside
• With a pastry cutter, or in your food processor, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add eggs and blend well.
• Press half the mixture onto the bottom of the prepared pan, and then spread the jam over the crust.
• Sprinkle 1 ¾ cup of the peanut butter chips over the jam. Stir the remaining reserved crumb mixture with the remaining peanut butter chips and sprinkle over the top.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Author: cakebycourtney