Peanut Butter Squares

Here's a recipe that is sure to delight peanut butter lovers!  While I have taken my love of peanut butter to extremes--trying it on toast, soup, raisin bran, ice cream, oatmeal, chocolate, rhubarb cobbler, pumpkin/sweet potato pie, apple pie, and even green salad--this super peanut-buttery recipe from one of my mother's cookbooks is one of my all time favorite concoctions!

Peanut Butter Squares

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/3 cup shortening

1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup milk

1-1/2 cups flour

1-1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).  Cream the peanut butter, shortening, and brown sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.  Stir in the milk.  Add the dry ingredients all at once and mix till the batter is smooth.  Spread into greased 15x10x1-inch baking pan, and bake for about 20 minutes.

Peanut Butter Frosting 

6 tablespoons peanut butter

4-1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/4+ cup milk

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Combine ingredients, adding milk while stirring until frosting reaches proper consistency.  Once the peanut butter squares have cooled, spread frosting over them.

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."  --Wallace Irwin