Celebrate and Bake

Is there such a thing as too many chips?



All set for the oven



Between several co-workers finishing their classes last week (some for good, others like me for now) and a couple birthdays to boot, there seemed to be a lot to celebrate last week.  So, after finishing up my final projects, I broke loose by doing one of my favorite things..BAKING.  I did not have any super fancy or exciting ingredients lying around, but I did have some Smucker's Natural Super Crunchy Peanut Butter (natural peanut butter is so much better than processed) in pantry as well as a all sorts of Ghiradelli chocolate chips, a half-used bag of peanut butter chips, and some random mini M&Ms (so fun)....All perfect ingredients to make peanut butter chocolate chip cookie bars (except I did not use any whole-wheat flour in my bars).  I love me a good cookie bar because it's soft like a good cookie should be without the hassle of baking batches and batches of cookies all day in the oven.  I spent very little time putting together and baking my bars and got scads of peanut butter and chocolate joy in return.  The bars tasted like a peanut butter,honey, and chocolate sandwich without the bread and bursting with chippy goodness, and the recipe made so much that I did not feel guilty at all setting aside a couple wedges for myself and a fellow Maryland cookie lover.

Pure chippy delicousness

Everyone at work praised the cookie bars' tastiness (though many now I think I'm peanut butter-crazed), and I loved finally having the time to catch up with my kitchen after a semester of separation.  Dear oven, let's not grow apart again.