Peanut Butter Smore's Bars

4.80 from 5 votes

Prep Time10

Cook Time25

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Keyword: chocolate, cookie bars, cookies, gluten-free, graham crackers, low sugar, marshmallows, peanut butter, plant-based, small-batch, smores, smores bars, vegan

Servings: bars

Calories: 182kcal

Equipment

Standard loaf pan or 8x8 baking pan

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

1/4 cup (plant) butter, softened at room temperature (56 g)
1/4 cup peanut butter (64 g) or other nut/seed butter
1/4 cup brown sugar (48 g)
1/2 cup white sugar, or sugar substitute (96 g) I used Lakanto monk fruit sweetener
3 tbsp applesauce or mashed banana (45 g) this is your egg replacer, sub a regular egg or a flax egg
1 tsp vanilla extract

Dry ingredients

1 cup flour (120 g) gf all purpose if desired
1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs (kind of optional) (30 g) or gf alternative, or you can just omit this
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt

Mix ins

3/4 cup chocolate chips, divided (135 g)
1 1/2 cup chopped marshmallows, or marshmallow creme (70 g)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F and line your pan with parchment.
In a bowl or stand mixer cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars until light and fluffy (I used a hand mixer). Add applesauce and vanilla, mix until combined.
In a separate bowl whisk together all dry ingredients and mix into the wet ingredients until a smooth cookie dough is formed. Fold in 1/4 of the chocolate chips.
Evenly press down 2/3 of this dough in your pan, top with marshmallows, sprinkle with chocolate, and cover with patches of the rest of the dough (just use your hands, doesn't need to be perfect).
Bake for 22-25 minutes until lightly golden around the edges. Don't overbake or your marshmallows might melt completely.
Let the cookie bars cool completely before slicing. Enjoy!

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