Peanut Butter Bars Recipe
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Peanut Butter Bars make quick and delicious treats! This no bake peanut butter bars recipe has only 5 ingredients, is ready in less than 30 minutes and makes 20 to 36 bars.
Looking for more delicious easy dessert recipes? I think you’ll love my no-bake cookies, easy fudge, Hello Dolly Bars, and peanut butter balls.
What is it about Peanut Butter Bars that make the world just feel right? Since Sam was just a wee one, we’ve been making these peanut butter bars together. He’d sit on the edge of the counter, swinging his feet as we poured all of the ingredients for the peanut butter base into a large mixing bowl to mix it all together.
His favorite part of making these bars was always dumping the confectioner’s sugar into the bowl, the cloud of white sugar dust bringing out his contagious giggle every single time.
Peanut Butter Bars Recipe
These peanut butter bars are so simple and quick to make, but taste like they were super hard to make. That’s why Sam and I have been making them together for so many years. Five ingredients is all it takes to make these babies!
These bars are perfect for holidays, game days, potlucks, tailgating, and serving on your dessert table anytime. They are also great for gifting and disappear quicker than you would ever imagine! We also love to make them on camping trips in the RV.
I also remember that my Mama would sometimes make them just to tuck into my lunch box. When I’d open the lid to discover one inside, I felt like the luckiest girl alive. There’s just something about that whole peanut butter and chocolate combination that’ll do that for you.
How to Make:
To make these, you’ll need the following:
- Butter, melted
- Graham Cracker Crumbs
- Confectioners’ Sugar
- Peanut Butter
- Chocolate Chips
Mix. You’ll add the first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix until well combined and smooth. Then spread evenly into a 9×13 baking dish.
Melt. Combine ingredients for the peanut butter bar chocolate topping in a medium glass bowl. Melt in the microwave for 1 minute at a time on 80% power. Remove from the microwave and stir until smooth.
Chill. Spread the smoothed, melted peanut butter chocolate topping on top of the peanut butter bar base and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Remove from the freezer and cut into individual bars. The size will depend on the number of bars you’d like to serve. This recipe makes from 20 to 36 bars.
Storage Tips
To store. Store on the counter or in the refrigerator if warm in your area to prevent the chocolate from softening.
To freeze. Portion into freezer-safe container(s), label, and freeze for up to 3 months.
Here’s my recipe for Peanut Butter Bars. I know you are going to love them!
Peanut Butter Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226 g) butter, melted
- 2 cups (200 g) graham cracker crumbs, 2 sleeves ground to a fine crumb
- 2 cups (227 g) confectioners’ sugar
- 1 1/2 cups (405 g) peanut butter
Peanut Butter Bar Chocolate Topping
- 1/4 cup (68 g) peanut butter
- 2 cups (340 g) chocolate chips
Instructions
- Combine first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl until well-combined and smooth. Spread evenly into a 9×13 baking dish.
- Combine ingredients for the peanut butter bar chocolate topping in a medium glass bowl. Melt in the microwave for 1 minute at a time on 80% power. Remove from the microwave and stir until smooth. Spread on top of the peanut butter bar base and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Remove from the freezer and cut into individual bars. The size will depend on the number of bars you’d like to serve (20-36 bars)
Notes
Make Ahead and Freezing Instructions
To store. Store on the counter or in the refrigerator if warm in your area to prevent the chocolate from softening. To freeze. Portion into freezer-safe container(s), label, and freeze for up to 3 months.Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Other Favorite No Bake Peanut Treats:
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Ive made these twice and both times they are to soft what am I doing wrong. There fine in the fridge but if taken out they become very soft
Hi Beverly,
I’m sorry they were too soft. I’ve not had that problem, so not exactly sure why it happened. If your peanut butter had a high oil content, it could have caused them to be too soft. I use Jif when I make them in case that helps you. Thanks!
These tasted great but when I took them out of the fridge the peanut butter part became very soft. The chocolate remained hard what happened
sarah- could not have said it better myself! kudos to you… i hope isobelle read your comment! 🙂
Nice. I want to try it, but could you give me the exact grammes of the ingredients, please?
Good grief, I’ve been making these bars myself since I was 8, 32 years people so I’m going to say it’s my recipe
I just saw on a big facebook recipes group how you stole this from an old recipes on allrecipes.com and claimed you were the author and I must say that’s pretty darn low! You got balls as big as church bells to outright lie to your innocent readers like that. I hope you are exposed for the fake you are. Shame on you! The good Lord is watching.
Hi Isobelle,
Goodness, I’m sorry that you feel that way about me when we’ve not even met. My mother was making these peanut butter bars with me when I was a little girl in the 70’s and it has been a recipe I’ve been making since with my own son. I do agree with you on one point of your comment. The good Lord is definitely watching. God bless you and have a great day! Robyn
Isobelle Hi you don’t know me either, but to let you know that allrecipes do get their recipes from a lot of people from all over the world. so in all reality allrecipes take other people’s recipes and put them in their book’s . so I think that was very unfair of you to say that to Robyn. so please before you make a comment next time do your research.
I’m from Australia, Robyn – and I love this recipe. Thankyou. I have seen near identical recipes to yours in my country. That doesn’t make this recipe any less yours. Especially since it was handed down from your Mum.
As to the rude Isobelle – careful, your ignorance is showing. You need to research what the AllRecipes site is actually all about. Perhaps more time spent on that and less time spent combing gossipy social media pages and hunting people down so you can be self righteous and rude.
There’s nothing worse than passive aggression wrapped up in a cloak of Christianity. Drop the act. Robyn may be too sweet and polite to tell you that, but frankly there’s nothing more ludicrous than a judgemental, aggressive and vindictive Christian. It’s utter hypocrisy to the faith you espouse. Your behaviour shows me you are no more a Christian than I am. And I’m a dye in the wool atheist.
I am going to make these. Just love peanut butter. I now live in Australia, so no Graham Crackers. I will be using arrowroot biscuits (cookies) as a substitute.. Will let you know how it turns out. Thank you for the recipe…
These bars are seriously so wonderful!!
Hey I tried these out but I did them a little bit differently as I made the biscuit base without the peanut butter then had the peanut butter whipped with the sugar on top and then the chocolate on top.
It was tasty. I think it would be nice with some actual nuts under the chocolate so I may try that next time. Also I may try your method of mixing the biscuits in with the peanut butter and seeing how that turns out.
I found that I couldn’t taste the chocolate much but I was using super value chocolate so perhaps next time I will try something upmarket 😉
Regardless, I really enjoyed the recipe!
Easy to make & very delicious. Great recipe!