Recipe: Gingerbread House Inn Butter Finger Bars (using oats)

BUTTER FINGER BARS
From Gingerbread House Inn, Cape May, NJ, Fred and Joan Echevarria

1 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
4 cups oatmeal (not quick oats), uncooked
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13-inch pan.

Mix together butter, sugars, and oatmeal. Pat mixture into pan.

Bake for 15 minutes. Cool.

Melt together peanut butter and chocolate chips together. Spread over cooled mixture. Cut into 2-inch-long bars (approximately 18 bars).

Makes 18 bars
Source: Cape May Cooks: Recipes from New Jersey's Restaurant Capital by Connie Correia Fisher and Joanne Correia