Original Toll House Peanut Butter Brownies (1980)

• 12-oz package peanut butter morsels
• 2-1/4 cups flour
• 2-1/2 tspns baking powder
• 1/2 tspn salt
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 tspn vanilla extract
• 3 eggs
• 6-oz package semi-sweet chocolate morsels

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Over hot (not boiling) water, melt 1 cup peanut butter morsels; stir until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt, and set aside.  

In a large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract; beat until creamy.  Stir in melted peanut butter morsels.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add flour mixture.  Stir in semi-sweet chocolate morsels.

Spread evenly into a well-greased 15x10x1-inch baking pan.  Bake 30 minutes.  Remove from oven, and immediately sprinkle top with remaining 1 cup peanut butter morsels.  Let stand about 5 minutes until morsels become shiny and soft.  Spread morsels evenly over top of brownies.  Cool completely.  Cut into 2-inch squares.  Makes 35 squares.

(Origin - "Toll House Heritage Cookbook: A Collection of Favorite Dessert Recipes," a Rutledge Book, 1980.)

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