No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are truthful elemental to marque with a peanut butter/graham cracker crumb bottommost with cocoa chips topped with a furniture of chocolate. They sensation a batch similar peanut food cups and are perfect for day snacks, picnics, and potlucks.
These bars, on with Chocolate Peanut Butter Grahams are 2 of my favourite no-bake treats.
Only 5 Ingredients
Made with lone 5 ingredients you apt already person connected hand, these delicious bars lone instrumentality minutes to make.
- Peanut Butter– I usage a creamy peanut food similar Jif oregon Skippy. You tin usage crunchy peanut food if that is what you prefer.
- Butter– I usage salted butter, but you tin usage unsalted.
- Powdered Sugar– helps support the creamy, creaseless texture successful the peanut food layer.
- Graham Cracker Crumbs– you tin either process graham crackers successful a nutrient processor, spot them successful a ziptop container and crush them with thing heavy, oregon usage store-bought graham crackers crumbs.
- Mini Chocolate Chips
It’s a bully old-fashioned dessert you’ll privation to marque again and again.
If you’re a instrumentality of that chocolate/peanut food combination, these bars are going to beryllium your caller champion friend.
And due to the fact that they are no-bake, they are large for making each summertime agelong erstwhile you can’t carnivore to adhd immoderate vigor to your kitchen.
How To Soften Butter
To soften butter, fto it beryllium astatine country somesthesia for 45 to 60 minutes. If you request it to soften faster past that, chopped it into cubes and it should beryllium bully successful 30 minutes. If you request it adjacent quicker than that, you tin microwave it astatine 20% powerfulness for precise abbreviated intervals, but you hazard partially melting it.
Storage
Store successful the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks oregon frost for up to 2 months. To freeze, either individually wrapper oregon stack with a portion of wax insubstantial successful betwixt truthful they don’t instrumentality to each other.
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No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups peanut butter divided
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar divided
- 2 3/4 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 2 cups (12-ounce) package mini cocoa chips divided
Instructions
- Grease a 9×13-inch baking pan.
- In a ample mixing bowl, bushed 1 1/4 cups peanut food and the food until creamy.
- Gradually bushed successful 1 cupful powdered sugar.
- With hands oregon woody spoon, premix successful remaining powdered sugar, the graham cracker crumbs, and 1/2 cupful mini cocoa chips.
- Pressed evenly into prepared pan.
- Melt remaining peanut food and remaining mini cocoa chips successful a heavy-bottomed saucepan implicit LOW heat, stirring constantly.
- Spread implicit graham cracker layer. Refrigerate for astatine slightest 1 hr earlier slicing.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe adapted from Nestle
Originally posted April 24, 2017.
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