Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars
Hi guys! While I am out here in California learning all things neuroscience, a few of my blog friends will be here all week sharing some yummy treats with you.
Today, Julie from This Gal Cooks brings you chocolate chip peanut butter marshmallow bars! But before you hear from Julie (and hear all about these delicious looking bars), I just wanted to let you know that she is one of a kind. She is ridiculously nice and approachable! She is also always willing to help with all my million blogging questions (Thanks Julie!) and I’m so lucky to call her my friend. As if that wasn’t enough, she makes me drool every week with her creative recipes. Her meals are on constant rotation on my menu plans…like her easy bolognese sauce is now a staple in my kitchen. I am so glad she is here today to share with you her love for sweets!
Hi folks! I’m Julie from This Gal Cooks and I’m thrilled to be guest posting on Zainab’s blog today! I met Zainab a few months ago and she has become a great bloggy friend of mine! Today I will be sharing a recipe that contains two of my favorite indulgences: chocolate and peanut butter! I hope you enjoy these Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars!
Let me tell you a little about me before we get to these delicious bars! I started blogging in June of 2012. When I first started blogging, I pretty much lacked photography skills. My photo shoots consisted of me quickly snapping a photo with my iPhone. Eventually, I realized that I needed to acquire some photography skills in order to showcase my food in a way that made the food look as good as it tastes! I did some research online, purchased a DSLR camera and a lens and the rest is history! Every day I strive to improve my photos. I try out new layouts, different angles, and sometimes different lighting. I recently purchased a macro lens and it has allowed me to capture shots that my little hundred dollar 50mm lens prevented me from capturing!
- Camera: Canon Rebel T3 DSLR
- Lens: Canon 100mm Macro IS USM Lens, Canon EF f/1.8 50mm lens
I blog about food. I guess it’s pretty obvious with a name like This Gal Cooks! I also enjoy crafts and design but I don’t have much time for them with working full time, attending school part time and blogging full time! My blog contains recipes ranging from savory dishes to sweet treats that will make you swoon. I have a weakness for cookies and a passion for creating delicious, simple meals that often will feed a small family for more than one day. Leftovers and easy meals are a must when you’re a busy gal like me!
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars
These Peanut Butter Marshmallow Bars have all of your favorite sweet treats combined into one delicious dessert!
Ingredients
- ½ C melted butter
- ½ C packed light brown sugar
- ½ C granulated sugar
- 1 C creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1⅓ C all purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 C small marshmallows
- 1 C semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line a 13x9 baking pan with parchment paper. Be sure to leave paper over the edges of the pan for easy cookie bar removal.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the flat attachment, beat together the butter, sugars, egg and peanut butter until well blended.
- In a mixing bowl, beat together the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture and beat until well blended. Fold in the chocolate chips and then the marshmallows.
- Press the cookie dough into the 13x9 pan.
- Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes or until the edges are just turning brown.
- Cool completely. After cooking, lift the bars from the pan and cut into squares.
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Thank you very much Julie for sharing this recipe with us today. Didn’t I tell you guys she makes me drool? These bars are going to be on my to-bake list as soon as I get back home. Be sure to check out Julie’s blog (This Gal Cooks) for more delicious recipes and you can find her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest too. Connect with her and never miss a recipe!
What BEAUTIFUL bars!! They pretty much have all of my favorite mix-ins. You just can’t go wrong with peanut butter and marshmallow!!
No way you can go wrong with these!
These look fantastic! I love chocolate (who doesn’t??!), peanut butter, and marshmallows, so I’m sure I could eat the entire pan in one sitting!
I know right? I can eat a whole pan of these. Looking forward to making them soon! Thanks Jamie.
Hi Zainab and Julie! These bars look fantastic and wow, peanut butter and marshmallows? That sounds like a little taste of heaven! 🙂 So great to see you here, Julie!! Pinning and sharing!
Thanks Cindy!! Julie is amazing and this recipe is one to remember and store! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Zainab! Thank you so much for having me over on your blog today! I hope you are enjoying your time in California. I hear it’s amazing out there, depending on which area you are in! Have a great week. 🙂
Hi Julie. Thank you so very much for guest posting and sharing this wonderful recipe!! California was great but I am so exhausted now. Thanks again dear!! Have a great week 🙂
Zainab, I hope you are having a blast in California and learning lots of smart people stuff. 🙂 hehe. So happy to see Julie over here today! She is awesome and loving these Peanut butter and Chocolate Chip bars, everything delicious in one bit! YUM!
Thanks Krista! I did have a great time and slowly recovering from a slight jetlag tonight. And totally agree, Julie is amazing!! These bars are a clear evidence of that.
Julie these look delicious, I’m a sucker for anything marshmallow! Enjoy yourself and have fun Zainab!
Thanks Emily! I had a great time 🙂
Great guest post Julie and bars of course! Enjoy your time in CA Zainab!
Thanks Deb!
Zainab, I hope you are having a wonerful time in Cal! It sounds like lots of fun!
Julie, what fabulous bars! They look so dense and buttery (must have for bars in my book:) and I love the combo of marshmallows and chocolate chips. Mmm, what a winner!
Thanks Mary Frances! I did have a wonderful time in Cali. These bars are definitely winners :). I love your criteria for bars!
too delicious for words!!! peanut butter, chocolate, marshmallows, cookie bars….everything I could ever want!
All in one bar!!
These bars look fabulous, Julie! Hope you’re having a great time in SD, Zainab!
Have fun at the conference! I already miss going to them. Great recipe today to fill in!
These bars sound great! Thanks, Julie, for sharing some info about your photography!
These cookie bars looks amazing, Julie! 🙂 I am so glad you popped on over here to share them- yum! Pinned & sharing.
Nice guest post, I love Julie’s blog and I’m definitely mad about these bars. They look too good to be true, oh well, I think I need one of these right now!
Have fun in California, Zainab! x
Love these! I really wish I had one of these right now. And Julie, don’t you love your new macro lens? I love it.
Hope you’re having a great time in San Diego! Julie, these bars look delicious and the photos are amazing! Peanut butter and marshmallow…. one of the best combinations ever!
These bars look absolutely scrumptious! The photos are gorgeous; I’m heading over to This Gal Cooks now to say hi! Thanks for introducing us, Zainab!
These bars look delicious, Julie! Your pictures are gorgeous too!! I’m so glad Zainab introduced me to you!!
So funny you mentioned how you would photograph your pics with your iphone, Julie…I’ve been hearing that a lot lately from the other ladies. It must have done really good photos…because I think your photos looked great even back then!
Loving how you made these delicious bars with my favorite ingredient…PB! Pinning. Thanks Julie for sharing with us over here!
These bars look really good and super easy to make.
Dear Zainab, I hope you are having a wonderful time in California. In the meantime, these marshmallow bars look absolutely delightful, Julie. My daughter would absolutely love these. Beautiful photos. Blessings, Catherine
I am inundated with cookies!!! I want them all. Let’s just say I will be spreading the holiday joy with sweet treats.
Wow! This looks so mouthwatering! Love the photos, the chocolate chips looks deliciously crunchy!