Peanut Butter Cheesecake Cookie Bars

Name: Peanut Butter Cheesecake Cookie Bars
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter, softened; 1/2 cup shortening; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 cup brown sugar; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 2 1/2 cups flour; 1 cup peanut butter chips; 1 cup extra large chocolate chips; 1 - 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 egg; 1/4 cup peanut butter; 1/4 cup peanut butter chips; 1/4 cup chocolate chips; 1 teaspoon shortening

Published: Mar 24, 2013 · Modified: May 19, 2019 by Jocelyn · As an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain affiliate links · 86 Comments

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Eating these Peanut Butter Cheesecake Cookie Bars will send you to your sugar happy place right away. This bar cookie recipe would be a great addition to your dessert table anytime.

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There is nothing that I would classify as too sweet. I am quite a dessert heavy weight (LOL literally).

Now my hubby on the other hand, he takes one or two bites and he is over it. We were at Cheesecake Factory a few weeks ago, and we both ordered cheesecake after dinner.

Now I purposefully only ate a small portion of dinner because one must leave room for cheesecake when you come to a place called The Cheesecake Factory. It is a given.

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Anyway, I had no problem downing my cheesecake and a few bites of my hubby's. He had a few bites and was going on about how sweet it was, and that it was too rich for him.

He even said that he was getting the shakes and the sweats from trying to eat all that sugar. I just had to laugh at him and call him a dessert light weight. I guess I have had a lot more practice holding my sugar with all the desserts I keep cranking out.

After having that cheesecake a few weeks ago, I was craving some cheesecake goodies. One of my favorites from last year were these Key Lime Cheesecake Cookie Bars, so I knew I wanted to make another variation of that recipe.

And since Reese's are my absolute all time favorites, I decided to make another peanut butter version with Reese's peanut butter chips, because clearly you can never have enough of that!!!

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These peanut butter cheesecake cookie bars are purely decadent. Thick layers of chocolate and peanut butter chip cookie dough with a generous layer of peanut butter cheesecake in the middle. Oh yeah!!

I like my bars super thick, but if you like yours thinner, go ahead and bake these in a 9x13 pan. Just make sure to adjust your baking time to about 30 minutes.

I also used the Hershey's baking melts in place of the chocolate chips. I liked biting into the big chunks of chocolate. Who doesn't though...

And of course everything is better with more chocolate right? So, go ahead and drizzle your bars with more melted chocolate and Reese's peanut butter chips!!!

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