 Hey y'all, it's Timmy with Colored Valley Cooks. And today we're making one of my very favorites, lunch room peanut butter bars. And you gotta use your jiff peanut butter, right? So we're gonna make a creamy icing, some chewy peanut butter bars. Let's get started. All right, when I make these, I start out with the sugar and the eggs. So we're going to bring up our mixing bowl and I am going to put in two eggs. All right, now I'm gonna add a half cup packed brown sugar and a whole cup of regular sugar. Cup of sugar, packed brown sugar. We'll turn it on. Add a little vanilla cup of peanut butter. In an Amazon store, and there's a link on the description post. A couple of tablespoons of butter. The recipe calls for margarine, but of course you can use butter. And what you're gonna do is add one and one and a half cups of self-rising flour. If you have regular flour, there's an option in my recipe book, this is in volume two, so that you can add baking powder and salt. And I'll have that in the recipe description in this post as well. So we're gonna put in one and one half cups of self-rising flour. Remember back when the lunchroom ladies made some good food when you were in school and this is one of my favorite things that they made. Lunchroom lady peanut butter bars. We're gonna spray a brownie pan. Do not put them in a larger pan. They won't be thick enough to be chewy. So you want an 11 by seven like this or a nine by nine. As long as that diameter adds up to around 18 inches, you're good. All right, so we're gonna put our peanut butter bars in here and spread them out. And this is one of my very favorite desserts. It's in the second cookbook. Me and Chris, the Lord, I used to make these all the time when I was younger because I was so skinny it didn't matter. Now you can remember having these at school and back when we were in school, the lunchroom ladies really did make a lot of good food. They made fried chicken and homemade rolls and good old chocolate cake with cooked icing. I'm gonna wet my spatula so I can spray this. It's really thick. But a lot of y'all remember those days. I don't think they cook like they used to. I know when Chris was, well, he was actually a football coach then, not an administrator. And we lived in Trenton, Georgia. That was in about 2000. About 2000. Their lunchroom ladies up there, it was Northwest Georgia, the very corner. Their lunchroom ladies, oh my gosh, they could cook. And I would go over there and I would eat with him in the lunchroom, probably at least four days a week, okay? For lunch, I was pregnant at the time. Here's your peanut butter bars. We're gonna bake these at 350 degrees for 35 minutes and then we're gonna let it cool. And while they're cooking, we're gonna go ahead and mix up some icing. So we're gonna use a half a cup of margarine. It needs to be room temperature and I'm using butter. I used to use margarine a lot more than I do now. Now I use mostly butter. So here goes a quarter cup of peanut butter. We're gonna put in a little bit of vanilla. We're gonna go ahead and start creaming this together. I'm gonna get out some actual canned milk. Two cups of powdered sugar, which is about a half. It's really about a pound, okay? So we're just going to add half of the two pound bag. This makes a good bit of icing, so you may have some left. You can make some chocolate cupcakes out of a cake mix and just pin up your icing on with chocolate chips, with the icing that you have left. Now we're gonna put in just a couple of tablespoons of milk, get it creamy. That's three to four. This is a beater that you're not supposed to have to scrape the sides with, but I find that no matter what, you really are better off scraping. We're nice and creamy now. It is time to spread this delicious icing on these bars and cut them up. So you don't want a whole lot, because like I said, it's really rich already. So I typically just put a blob on here and spread it out then. Kids like it better thin. I like it thick. The kids like it to be thin. And this is better than any peanut butter cookie that you ever ate too. There's nothing better than these things to me for dessert, period. It's one of my very favorites. So I hope that y'all take the time out to make these lunchroom lady peanut butter bars. I usually don't go to the edge because it's always crusty on the edge like a pancake. And so now we're gonna cut them. I'm gonna show you how they look. So if you don't wanna hurt your pan, these are stiff enough. You can actually pick them up like this. And when you store these, make sure that you put them in something airtight. If you don't, they're gonna dry out and not be good at all. Make sure you use fresh ingredients too. Good peanut butter. Not old peanut butter. If you got old stuff. Makes a difference in how it's happened to pastes. Really does. Don't try to see how chewy they are. Delicious peanut butter bars just like you remember from school. All right, it's time to eat them y'all. There's a few recipes that are on my top 10 list. This one has to be one of them. If you don't make anything else, make you some peanut butter bars using CVC's recipe. You'll be reminded of being in that lunchroom as a kid and taking a bite of that delicious peanut butter, tasty treat. Oh, have a great day. And thanks for watching. Call her belly cooks. Where we cook, like mama did. Bye y'all, love ya.