Shelly's Recipe

THE MOTHER LOAD LAYERED COOKIE BARS - Easy

Category: Bars

Layer 1: Sugar Cookie
1 roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough

Preheat oven to 350. Press sugar cookie dough into bottom of a 13x9 inch baking dish that has been lined foil and sprayed with cooking spray.

Layer 2: Double Chocolate Chip Cookie
(The recipe below makes double what you’ll need for the bars, use extra for cookies)
1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/4 cups cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Cocoa Powder)
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Slowly add eggs and vanilla until well combined. In another bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Slowly add to wet ingredients then stir in chips. Layer 1/2 the recipe over sugar cookie layer, pressing gently.

Layer 3: Peanut Butter
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg

Place all ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined. Press over chocolate cookie dough.

Layer 4: Chocolate Chip Cookie
1 roll refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough

Spoon the dough evenly over peanut butter cookie dough but do not press, just leave uneven. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until center of dough is cooked mostly through. Edges will be brown. I covered pan with foil during the last 15 minutes of baking.

Let cookies cool completely. Lift out of pan with edges of foil. Drizzle top with 1/2 cup melted chocolate chips if desired and cut into bars.