Recipe : Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares

Having received  a new cookery book to review - Parragon's Bake Like The Best : The Essential Baking Bible - I flicked through to find a recipe to try out and came across these rather tasty Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares. They were very simple to make and I had everything I needed in the cupboard, which was a great bonus. (You can read my review of the book here.)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares

makes 20 

ingredients :

300g milk chocolate

350g plain flour

1tsp baking powder

225g butter

350g soft light brown sugar

175g rolled oats

70g chopped mixed nuts

1 egg, beaten

400g can condensed milk

70g crunchy peanut butter

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4.

Finely chop the chocolate. Sift the flour and baking powder into a large bowl. Add the butter and rub in using your fingertips to make breadcrumbs.

Stir in the sugar, oats and nuts. Put a quarter of the mixture in a separate bowl and add the chocolate. Set this aside and add the egg to the remaining mixture.

Press the eggy mixture into the base of a 30 x 20cm baking tin. Bake for 15 minutes. Meanwhile mix together the condensed milk and peanut butter. Pour this over the biscuit base and spread evenly. Sprinkle over the remaining mixture (from the bowl with the chocolate) and press down lightly.

Return to the oven and bake for a further 20 minutes until golden brown. Leave to cool in the tin then cut into squares.

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