Peanut Butter Fingers

Growing up our cousin's came over for Sunday Dinner for close to 10 years and at least once a month I requested she make these bars.

Ingredients:
1/2 C. oil
1/2 C. brown sugar
1/2 C. white sugar
1 egg
1/3 C peanut butter
1/2 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Mix the above ingredients. (I do it by hand with a pastry crust thingy blender - I just whisk it a few times.) (You know the thing with the slots?) You could use a mixer too. I'm just too lazy to put it together.

Next add:
1 C. flour
1 C. oatmeal

Mix together with a spoon. When it is mixed together enough that it's not very messy, I use my hands and kind of knead it in the bowl.

Then I spread it with my fingers in the pan.
Bake at 350 degrees in a preheated oven ONLY 15 MINUTES. It might seem like it's not done but it is and it is nice and soft this way.

Take it out of the oven and sprinkle chocolate chips on immediately while hot.

Put on the topping:
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1/4 C. peanut butter
2-4 Tbsp. milk

I mix this so that it is on the thicker side - just so that it slowly pours off the spoon when I lift the spoon up to check how it pours off. If it's too thin, I add a little more powdered sugar and peanut butter.
Drizzle the topping on the bars and cut while hot so the knife can cut through the melted chocolate.

Courtesy of: Retta Raddant