Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars

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If you’re a chocolate and peanut butter lover, you’ve found your end-all-be-all dessert.
If you’ve tried ‘lush’ desserts like lemon lush or ‘better than…’ desserts, this recipe is a chocolate-peanut butter version.
It’s an almost no-bake recipe (the crust bakes for 10 minutes) that’s easy, goofproof, rich, decadent, and guaranteed to be raved about by your friends and family.
There are so many textures and flavors that make the bars irresistibly dreamy. There’s a crunchy, salty-and-sweet Nutter Butter Cookie crust, topped with silky chocolate pudding, topped with a peanut butter-cream cheese-COOL WHIP layer. I could just eat a bowl of just that.

INGREDIENTS:

• one 16-ounce package peanut butter sandwich cookies (like Nutter Butter Cookies), divided
• 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• one 3.9-ounce package JELL-O Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix (not sugar-free)
• 1 1/2 cups cold milk (use cow’s milk; pudding won’t set up with soy, almond, cashew milk. I used 1% cow’s milk)
• 4 ounces PHILADELPHIA cream cheese, softened (not lite)
• 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
• heaping 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (not ‘natural’)
• one 8-ounce tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed and divided
• 1/4 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup peanut butter chips 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8×8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, spray with cooking spray; set aside.
2. To the canister of a food processor, add 24 peanut butter cookies and process on high speed until broken down into very fine crumbs; set aside.
3. To a small microwave-safe bowl, add the butter and heat on high power to melt, about 30 seconds.
4. Add the melted butter to the peanut butter cookie crumbs and process on high speed to combine, about 30 seconds.
5. Turn mixture out into prepared baking pan and using the back of a spatula, hard-pack the mixture to form a even, flat crust. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven; set aside to cool. While crust bakes, you can move onto steps 6 and 7.
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for full instruction please see : www.averiecooks.com

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