Late Night Baking: Oatmeal Peanut Butter Snack Squares

I need to not start things at 11PM if I want to be able to eat it before bedtime.  Anyway, this is the base recipe, changed as follows:

Ingredient rollcall:

• 1/2c brown sugar (elephant section)
• 3/4c crunchy peanut butter (1c measuring cup)
• 1tbs vanilla extract (shot glass)
• 1c flour (1c dry measuring cup)
• 1c oats (monkey section)
• 1tsp baking soda (walrus section)
• 1/4tsp salt (also walrus section)
• 1/2c milk (2c measuring cup)
• 1/3c+ chocolate chips (alligator section. This was probably closer to 1/2. I just used the leftover chips I hadn't eaten yet)

Beat peanut butter and brown sugar together until creamy.

Add vanilla and mix.

Add all the dry ingredients, and then mix until you get something like that.  It won't look right, but that's ok.

Add the milk and mix it in until everything sticks together.

Fold in the chocolate chips.

Squish it down into the pan that isn't actually 8x8, but you never remember that fact, so you use it anyway.  This is going to magically result in bars that are twice as thick as those in the original recipe picture, which suggests that this pan is actually closer to 6x6.

Bake for ~25 minutes at 350. Then, let it sit for a half hour as the smell of peanut butter fills your apartment and taunts you.

It wasn't quite as good as I was hoping, although it does have a good flavor.  Had the pan been the right size, it would have cooked a bit more evenly, and I suspect that would have helped. It also would be good with the last bit of the clusterfluff, so I think that will be for tomorrow.