This time of year we stat trying little recipes for the holidays.  With parties, events and gifts, different recipes come in handy.  We tried a new one today that even the kids enjoyed making.  Its relatively easy and they are pretty good too.

Peanut Butter Candy Bar Brownies - a Southern Living Recipe

1 - (16 oz package peanut shaped peanut butter sandwich cookies (Nutter Butters)

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 - (14 oz) can sweetened  condensed milk

1 - Tbls. vanilla extract

5 -  Packages of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups chopped (refrigerate first)

2 - (2.1 oz.) Butterfingers Bars chopped

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup honey roasted peanuts

1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut.

Combine crushed cookies and butter in a medium bowl.  Press crumb mixture into bottom of a greased aluminum foil-lined 13"X9" pan, allowing foil to extend over ends of pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes.

Combine condensed milk, peanut butter, and vanilla in a medium bowl. stirring until smooth.

Sprinkle chopped candy bars, chocolate morsels, peanuts, and coconut over crust.  Drizzle condensed milk mixture over coconut and candy mix.

Bake at 350 degrees for 27 minutes or until lightly browned.  Remove to a wire rack, and let cool in pan.  Use foil to lift uncut brownies out of pan.  Peel foil away from sides of uncut brownies, and cut into bars. 

The bars are pretty good but really sweet.  The kids enjoyed making them because the measuring was easy.  I think the hardest part for them was waiting for the bars to cool.