Eat your feelings with these Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. It’s a 3 ingredient dessert that fulfills all those late night cravings.
I love easy desserts. This one is an “eat your feelings” dessert at its finest. It’s super easy to make and it’s one of the most popular flavor combinations in the world: chocolate and peanut butter. You can’t go wrong with this. It’s like eating a giant Reese’s candy bar and it’s amazing.
I’d like to say these last a few days sitting on the counter, but let’s face it, they don’t. They get consumed well before they ever have a chance to go bad.
TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS
This picture and recipe has been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. Crazy, huh? While most of the people that make it have no problems and enjoy this decadent dessert, here a few troubleshooting tips:
Peanut Butter
Depending on the brand of peanut butter you use it may require more powdered sugar than listed. Add enough powdered sugar to get a thick consistency that will hold a shape. Natural peanut butters work in this recipe as well as chunky peanut butters.
Chocolate
For this recipe you can use either milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips. Cheap chocolate produces terrible results so be sure to choose good quality chocolate chips. Some of those store brands of chocolate chips are actually chocolate flavored chips which makes a big difference. I personally use Ghirardelli or Guittard Milk Chocolate.
Cutting
What you see in the picture didn’t require any special cutting method. If they are refrigerated for a long time and get too cold, they will be very difficult to cut. Once the chocolate has hardened, these bars can be stored at room temperature which means they should cut easily.
Sticking
This is either your pan or your chocolate. I have used a glass pan as well as a metal nonstick pan with no problems. I do not line it or spray it with anything. Some pans, especially ones with scratches, cause sticking problems, as well as cheap chocolate. If you are worried, line the bottom of your pan with wax or parchment paper.
If you liked this recipe, you may also be interested in these other dessert recipes for chocolate peanut butter lovers:
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Cupcakes
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Milkshakes
- No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Bars
- Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies
- 6 Ingredient Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
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these are awesome only one thing i would change is how to melt the chips i found it faster to do it in a bowl over top of a pot of boiling hot water on the stove was awesome thanks for the great recipe
I've used both and loved them each. Personal preference I suppose ( or just whichever you have on hand. Milk chocolate runs pretty sweet.
Do you use milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet?
Whatever floats your boat! If you want them to be like regular peanut butter cups (the ones in the orange wrapper) use milk chocolate. They also have a dark chocolate which would use the Hershey's Special Dark chips.
Doug
@Carrie– Let me know the almond butter works. Might try with sunflower butter if yours come out good!
Just made em and the chocolate is too hard to slice, or even bite into. easy recipe, but chocolate need to be softer!
Did you refrigerate them at any point? I find that if you let them harden naturally on the counter you avoid getting the chocolate too hard to cut.
If you like them refrigerated, or need to so you can get them cut in a hurry, then add milk or cream to the chocolate. (1:4 or 1:5 — 1 part milk/cream to 4 parts chocolate; etc.)
Doug
Add some oil to your chocolate
It will make them less hard
That is so easy yet so delicious. I love the recipe and thanks a lot for the share.
YUM!!! I am soooo making these!!! With dairy free chips and considering almond butter… if they don't taste good, I will remake them, hahaha! 🙂 Hoping I can pin these!
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Oh yum, these look so good!
Loveeee it 🙂
Oh my!