Peanut-Butter Marble Square Bars

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Title: Peanut-Butter Marble Square Bars
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 24 servings

2 1/2 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c Margarine or butter; (2
-sticks) or
1 c Shortening
1 c Peanut butter
1 c Granulated sugar
1 c Packed brown sugar
2 Eggs
2 tb Water
1 c Semisweet chocolate chips

Recipe by: St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12/2/96 Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix
flour, salt and baking soda. Set aside.

Mix margarine and peanut butter. Add granulated and brown sugars. Mix well.
Add eggs and water; beat well.

Stir flour mixture into peanut-butter mixture.

Spread dough evenly in an ungreased 15-by-10-by-1-inch jelly-roll pan.
Sprinkle with chocolate chips.

Put the pan in the oven for 2 to 3 minutes or until chips are soft and
spreadable. Take the pan out of the oven and run a knife back and forth
through the dough to marbleize chocolate. Return to oven; bake an
additional 15 to 20 minutes.

Yield: 24 servings.

Tester's note: This blend of favorite flavors is moist, rich and quick to
prepare.

Judith L. Beyer, Cleveland Naval Junior ROTC. Beyer and her students
developed this recipe.

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