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"You may not be able to tell, but this picture features a carefully rigged cooling device. The kids were so anxious to eat these, after baking them with me, that we put the pan on a cooling rack under the ceiling fan in the living room. These are crumbly right when they come out of the oven, but they firm up to a perfect bar texture after they cool. Am I fooling myself when I think that the oats and peanut butter make this a perfectly acceptable afternoon snack? It&amp;#039;s certainly good for our spirits.  The recipe is off the Williams-Sonoma website, but I added the chocolate chips:   First we beat 1 stick (1/2 cup) room-temperature butter with 1/2 cup peanut butter and 1 cup brown sugar. We mixed in 1 egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, then turned to the dry ingredients.   In a separate bowl we mixed 1 cup each oatmeal and all-purpose flour (I think you could sub in whole-wheat flour without too much trouble), 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon salt. I mixed this into the wet ingredients, then added 1/2 cup chocolate chips. I pressed this into a parchment-lined-and-nonstick-spray-coated baking pan. Mine was a 9-inch square, which was a bit bigger than the 8-inch the recipe called for. (I had thinner bars as a result; I need to get an 8-inch pan.) Baked at 350F for 30 minutes, then let cool completely before cutting into bars. More of the two great tastes that taste great together: 10 Dreamy Peanut Butter-Chocolate Treats \u2014 Kim Walker "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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