No need to bake your cookie dough anymore. Make some Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars with a PB Chocolate frosting and call it done. This egg free cookie dough recipe is 100% safe and 100% delicious.
Sometimes you crave peanut butter cookies. Sometimes you crave chocolate chip cookies. And sometimes you just want to eat the cookie dough. Today brings it’s all together in one dessert.
Why Eat Cookie Dough Bars
The long standing traditions of sneaking bites of chocolate chip cookie dough from the mixing bowl while making cookies proves that there’s just something about cookie dough that’s extra appealing.
Maybe it’s the soft texture that instantly releases the sweet buttery flavor, or just the fun of eating something you’re not “supposed” to eat, but everyone LOVES cookie dough!
I created a completely egg-free peanut butter cookie dough that you can chill, slice and eat, with no baking required.
Of course, I also added a layer of chocolate peanut butter topping to make them even more indulgent! These cookie dough bars are every cookie dough lover’s dream dessert.
Ingredients You Need
- Sweetened condensed milk – NOT regular milk or evaporated milk
- Peanut butter – Creamy shelf-stable peanut butter works best in this recipe.
- Chocolate chips – I used mini morsels for the cookie dough and regular sized for the topping. Want even more peanut butter? You can substitute peanut butter morsels in the cookie dough portion of the recipe.
- Butter – Using unsalted butter allows you to control the salt in the finished treats!
- Flour– be sure to heat treat the flour before using!
How to cook raw flour
One note before we get to making the Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars: you need to cook the raw flour first to make sure any unsafe bacteria are killed.
You can do this in a couple of ways. My favorite way is to heat the flour in the microwave.
- Put the flour in a microwave safe bowl and heat it for 30 seconds at a time, stirring between intervals, until the flour reaches 160 degrees F.
- You can also toast your flour in a 350 degree oven for about 5 minutes to make it safe to use in these raw cookie dough bars.
Once your flour has been heated enough to kill any nasty microbes lurking around, let it cool completely, then get ready to make the best-ever Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars!
How to Make Cookie Dough Bars
Make the cookie dough.
- Cream together butter and brown sugar until well combined. Add the peanut butter and vanilla extract and continue to mix until the mixture gets fluffy. Now add the flour and condensed milk and beat to combine. Fold in the chocolate morsels.
- Press the dough into a square baking dish.
Add the topping.
- Melt the other chocolate morsels and the remaining peanut butter together in the microwave and then stir to make sure everything is fully combined.
- Spread the mixture evenly over the cookie dough. Place the pan in the refrigerator and chill for at least 3 hours or as long as overnight. Once firm, cut the bars into bite sized pieces and enjoy!
Tips and Tricks
- Store your Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars in a covered container either at room temperature or in the fridge. They’ll stay good for about a week.
- Make sure to spread the chocolate topping in an even layer over the cookie dough. Use a flat spatula or the back of a spoon to make sure all the parts of the dough are covered.
- If you want a straight up peanut butter cookie taste, feel free to leave the chocolate chips out of the dough or replace them with peanut butter morsels.
More Cookie Dough Desserts
- Peanut Butter Cookie Dough truffles are safe little bites of deliciousness!
- Peanut Butter Cookie Dough dip with Reese’s! Creamy and absolutely amazing!
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes: fluffy clouds of cookie dough frosting!
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Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars Recipe
Ingredients
For the Cookie Dough:
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- ¾ cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk 14 ounce
- 2 cups mini chocolate chip morsels
For the frosting:
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chip morsels
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat softened butter with brown sugar until fully combined. Add vanilla and peanut butter, beat until fluffy. Add flour and sweetened condensed milk. Beat until everything is blended well. Fold in the mini chocolate chip morsels.
- Press into an 8inx8in baking dish.
- In a microwave safe, medium sized bowl, add peanut butter and chocolate chips for the frosting. Melt for one minute. Stir and spread over the cookie dough.
- Refrigerate for 3 hours (or overnight). Cut into bite sized pieces. Store in a covered container for up to a week.
This looks amazing! I love cookie dough, and I never thought to pair it with peanut butter! This is perfect!
Cookie dough gets eaten so much at our house too. Love these fun no bake bars…I actually have a new version made after seeing your instagram a few weeks ago. But Karly is right…so many comments about raw flour. I had no idea it was a big deal…but it still doesn’t stop me from eating it 🙂
These are honestly my idea of heaven! Delish and a great combination of flavours 🙂
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So awesome!!! Weeks??? OMG. I better start doing eggless more often!
I just had a similar conversation with a friend who grew up in a house where eating cookie dough was strictly forbidden! I need to pass this recipe on to her!
YEPP. No need to bake cookies when there are such DELICIOUS
*uses for cookie dough!!! These bars look craaaazy dangerous!
(sorry about the split comment, I accidentally hit the enter key on the last one! lol)
Ahhhhhhh, I need this in my life in such a major way!!!
I ain’t scared – bring on the cookie dough! 🙂 These bars sound great! And I actually read Gingerbread Bagels before she stopped blogging too – crazy!
These are seriously making my mouth water! I might just make a double batch of cookie dough so I can make these, and then keep some cookie dough in the fridge for when the craving hits. 🙂
Geez, that is scary! Although I am terrible about eating raw dough and yeah, I sort let my kids do too. Well forget that, now I’ll just make these bars instead!
Not kidding…I’m little drooling over here.
Oh my!!! I wish I could have some!
Pinning and making – I need these in my life ASAP!
I never used to be one to be mindful of raw cookie dough either until in recent years. Now I always pause and think about it. But these bars, these bars Aimee!! They are brilliant and I need to add them to my stack of printout recipes!
These look amazing! Thanks for the link to Alyssa’s version…PB is a no-no for me so with that, I can enjoy them too!
Those bars look absolutely amazing! Now I am super hungry this morning.
So, apparently, the big concern is actually the raw flour, not the raw eggs! I had no idea of that until many, many of my readers let me know this in an egg free cookie dough recipe. So, you know. Brace yo’self. 😉
These look amazing and I would totally risk my life for them.
Yeah, I used to eat raw cookie dough as a kid, never got sick, but when I grew up and found about the egg/salmonella thing I stopped. When I started seeing all of these eggless cookie dough recipes around I got excited, but then I too saw the raw flour info, so I’m not sure of what to do and have yet to try one of these recipes.
When you bring flour home freeze it will help kill any weevils in there.
I have been freezing my flour for years. Started it because I kept getting bugs in it. Now I bring it in from the store and immediately stick it in the freezer. Once you freeze it, you can keep it a container for months or even years and no bugs.
Since I use a bag of flour within a week or two, I guess I’m not so concerned 😉
I eat strawberries fresh from the garden, the bugs in flour don’t scare me. LOL!!! I’m such a thrill seeker 🙂
You are hilarious, Aimee! I’m the same way. .. about the bugs AND using that much flour within a week.
I made this yummy treat today so I could leave some out for the milkman tonight. I couldn’t stop eating this to put it in the baking dish. .. so delish!
Glad to hear you enjoyed the recipe Gloria!!! Hope your milkman enjoyed it too!
They look amazing and those cuts. They’re so clean and perfect. Like surgeon’s hands with a razor sharp scalpel. I love it when bars are just SO perfectly cut. It makes them taste better : ) Will be pinning multiple places!
I thought my life was complete. Until I saw these.
No bake, 4 steps and peanut butter cookie dough? I <3 you.
Pinned!