{"id":664,"date":"2025-03-16T01:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/chocolate-topped-peanut-butter-bacon-bars\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:26:53","slug":"chocolate-topped-peanut-butter-bacon-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/chocolate-topped-peanut-butter-bacon-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate-Topped Peanut Butter-Bacon Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 pouch Betty Crocker\u00ae peanut butter cookie mix<br \/>\n1\/3 cup vegetable oil<br \/>\n2 tablespoons maple-flavored syrup<br \/>\n1 egg<br \/>\n10 slices bacon, crisply cooked, crumbled (about 3\/4 cup)<br \/>\n1\/2 cup chopped peanuts<br \/>\n1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHeat oven to 350\u00b0F. Lightly spray 9- or 8-inch square pan with cooking spray.<\/p>\n<p>In large bowl, stir together cookie mix, oil, syrup and egg until soft dough forms. Reserve 1\/4 cup bacon for garnish. Stir remaining bacon and peanuts into dough. Press evenly in pan.<\/p>\n<p>Bake 20 to 25 mintues or until golden brown. Remove from oven; sprinkle with chocolate chips. Return to oven; bake 1 minute. Immediately spread chocolate over bars. Sprinkle reserved 1\/4 cup bacon over chocolate. Cool completely, about 1 hour or until chocolate is set.<\/p>\n<p>For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store tightly covered in refrigerator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 pouch Betty Crocker\u00ae peanut butter cookie mix 1\/3 cup vegetable oil 2 tablespoons maple-flavored syrup 1 egg 10 slices bacon, crisply cooked, crumbled (about 3\/4 cup) 1\/2 cup chopped peanuts 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bars","category-dessert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2755,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kayeskinner.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}