Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars
"If you’re a chocolate and peanut butter lover, you’ve found your end-all-be-all dessert. It’s an almost no-bake recipe that’s easy, goofproof, rich, decadent, and guaranteed to be raved about by your friends and family. There are so many textures and flavors that make the bars irresistibly dreamy. There’s a crunchy, salty-and-sweet Nutter Butter Cookie crust, topped with silky chocolate pudding, topped with a peanut butter-cream cheese-COOL WHIP layer. There are peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and Nutter Butters for added crunch and a boost of peanut butter flavor...."
INGREDIENTS
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one 16-ounce package peanut butter sandwich cookies (like Nutter Butter Cookies), divided
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1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
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one 3.9-ounce package JELL-O Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix (not sugar-free)
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1 1/2 cups cold milk (use cow’s milk; pudding won’t set up with soy, almond, cashew milk. I used 1% cow’s milk)
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4 ounces PHILADELPHIA cream cheese, softened (not lite)
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1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
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heaping 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter (not ‘natural’)
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one 8-ounce tub COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed and divided
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1/4 cup milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips
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1/4 cup peanut butter chips
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