Butter bar

There are many recipes for butter bars, but they all have one common ingredient: butter. Butter has been a kitchen staple for centuries, and its use in baking dates back to ancient times.

The first recorded recipe for butter bars comes from an ancient Egyptian text called the Papyrus Ebers, which dates back to 1550 BC. This recipe calls for a mixture of ground almonds, dates, and butter, which was then formed into bars and baked.

The use of butter in baking spread to Europe in the Middle Ages, where it was used to make a variety of cakes, cookies, and pastries. Butter bars became particularly popular in Germany, where they were often made with fruit and nuts.

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Recipes

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World's Best Peanut Butter Bars

  • light brown sugar
  • cocoa powder
  • vanilla extract
  • all purpose flour
  • milk
  • powdered sugar
  • peanut butter
  • sugar
  • salt
  • butter
  • rolled oat
  • egg
  • baking soda
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Butterscotch Peanut Butter Bars

  • all purpose flour
  • confectioners sugar
  • baking soda
  • vanilla extract
  • egg
  • butter
  • peanut butter
  • sugar
  • brown sugar
  • oatmeal
  • salt
  • milk
  • butterscotch chip
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Raspberry Nutter Butter Bars

  • CRUST
  • brown sugar
  • nutter butter sandwich cookie crumb
  • salt
  • butter
  • TOPPING
  • nutter butter sandwich cookie crumb
  • fashioned oat
  • salt
  • all purpose flour
  • butter
  • raspberry jam
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Double the Streusel Apple Butter Bars

  • apple butter
  • brown sugar
  • all purpose flour
  • baking powder
  • fashion oat
  • pecan
  • cinnamon
  • nutmeg
  • all purpose flour
  • butter
  • maple syrup
  • vanilla extract
  • honey apple
  • butter
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Rhubarb–Brown Butter Bars

  • grapefruit juice
  • hibiscus flower
  • nonstick oil spray
  • salt
  • rhubarb
  • vanilla bean
  • fashioned oat
  • all purpose flour
  • blanched almond
  • baking soda
  • sugar
  • dark brown sugar
  • salt
  • hibiscus flower
  • butter
  • sugar
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Lunch Lady Peanut Butter Bars

  • brown sugar
  • sugar
  • butter
  • baking soda
  • salt
  • vanilla extract
  • peanut butter
  • cocoa powder
  • heavy cream
  • milk
  • butter
  • all purpose flour
  • rolled oat
  • egg
  • powdered sugar
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Peanut Butter Bars

  • peanut butter
  • powdered sugar
  • baking soda
  • salt
  • vanilla
  • brown sugar
  • butter
  • sugar
  • butter
  • all purpose flour
  • rolled oat
  • egg
  • cocoa
  • milk
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Caramel-Pecan Cookie Butter Bars

  • dark chocolate chip
  • shortening
  • vanilla extract
  • egg
  • caramel
  • self rising flour
  • biscoff cookie spread
  • butter
  • brown sugar
  • sugar
  • pecan
  • half cream
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Caramel Cookie Butter Bars

  • chocolate chip
  • baking powder
  • vanilla extract
  • butter
  • cookie butter
  • salt
  • caramel sauce
  • baking soda
  • egg
  • all purpose flour
  • brown sugar
  • sugar
  • caramel sauce
  • salt

Ingredient Breakdown

 
butter
all purpose flour
sugar
salt
peanut butter
egg
brown sugar
vanilla extract
powdered sugar
baking soda
milk
rolled oat
baking powder
vanilla
cocoa powder
confectioners sugar
nutter butter sandwich cookie crumb
fashioned oat
pecan
cinnamon
maple syrup
dark chocolate
hibiscus flower
caramel
sweetened condensed milk
sweet chocolate chip
graham cracker crumb
caramel sauce
light brown sugar
oatmeal
butterscotch chip
raspberry jam
apple butter
fashion oat
nutmeg
honey apple
honey
corn flake
white chocolate
black sprinkle
arnott' marie cracker
dark chocolate chips melting
icing sugar powdered sugar
us butter
chocolate candy coating
candy corn
grapefruit juice
nonstick oil spray
rhubarb
vanilla bean
blanched almond
dark brown sugar
peanut butter peanut butter
sweet
graham cracker
whipping cream
coconut
lime juice
egg yolk
lime zest
almond extract
rolo
cream
cocoa butter
corn syrup
black pepper
vanilla paste
ancho chile
cayenne powder
clove
peanut
popcorn
cocoa nib
dark
rice krispies cereal
coconut oil
confectionerand#x27 sugar
heavy cream
miniature marshmallow
reese'
reese' peanut butter cereal
cocoa
sweetened coconut flake
lemon juice
cream cheese
chocolate chips portion
krusteaz molten deep cookie
pouch molten chocolate
dark chocolate chip
shortening
self rising flour
biscoff cookie spread
half cream
chocolate chip
cookie butter

Insights

Staple Ingredients

  • butter 57%

Common Ingredients

  • all purpose flour 39%

Usual Ingredients

  • peanut butter 35%
  • brown sugar 30%
  • salt 30%
  • sugar 30%

Rarey Ingredients

  • egg 22%