This Delicious Copycat Tagalong Bars with a shortbread cookie base, which is baked to a crisped brown perfection. Top that with a soft, fluffy peanut butter layer, and then finish it off with a delicious milk chocolate layer.
If you’re a girl scout cookie lover, these Tagalong Bars were made just for you! With a shortbread cookie base cooked to perfection, soft fluffy peanut butter, and topped with a delicious milk chocolate layer, they taste just like the real deal.
TIPS ON MAKING PERFECT SHORTBREAD
- Room temperature butter
- Sift your flour to remove any lumps
- Use two butter knives to pull the butter apart until a dough of evenly sized crumbs begins to form. Be patient! This step can take a while. A pastry cutter works great in this step, too!
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 2/3 cup butter (softened but not melted)
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 teaspoons milk
- 2 cups milk chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a 9 x 9 inch pan with cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, mix together sugar and flour, and cut the 2/3 cup butter in with a butter knife. Keep cutting it in the mixture until it has formed evenly-sized crumbs.
- Press the mixture into the bottom of the 9 x 9 inch pan, and bake for 20 minutes – until the edges start to turn a golden brown.
- Remove from oven and let it cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, mix together peanut butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.
- Spread over the top of the cooled shortbread mixture (it may be kind of thick, so you may have to flatten it with your fingers).
- In a microwave safe bowl, mix together the chocolate chips and vegetable oil. Microwave for 1 minute, and then remove and stir. Continue to microwave the chocolate mixture in 15 second intervals until it is completely smooth.
- Pour chocolate over top the peanut butter layer and let it cool.
- Once the chocolate has hardened, cut into squares with a warm knife (that will give them a cleaner cut).
