This easy no-bake dessert is the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter! With only 5 ingredients these chocolate and peanut butter Buckeye Bars are fast, easy and DELICIOUS! This recipe belongs on every holiday dessert tray.
Buckeye Bars Recipe
Also called Buckeye Bars, Flat Buckeyes, Pan Buckeyes and No-Bake Buckeyes these are the easiest version of copycat recipe for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups that I’ve ever had! If you love white chocolate you’ll also have to try our White Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars.
When chocolate and peanut butter are mixed together and there is no-baking involved we want to try that recipe! This recipe has a graham cracker crumb base and we have another similar recipe for Buckeye Cookie Bars with a Lorna Doone cookie base.
Friends are one of the best places to find great recipes! My friend Cheryl from Bible Study pulled three amazing and well-used recipes out of her box to share. These are all keepers, especially creamy peanut butter with confectioners sugar added topped with melted chocolate.
Cheryl’s other go-to family favorite recipes are these Almond Bark Specials, Blueberry Muffins, and these no-bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Dessert Bars.
I couldn’t believe that only 5 ingredients, butter, peanut butter, powdered sugar, graham cracker crumbs and chocolate chips, could be so easy to make and taste so much like Reese’s peanut butter cup! I’ve made this dessert recipe twice already, and I know we’ll be making it many more times in the future!
How to Cut No-Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars
These chocolate and peanut butter bars are really easy to mix up, there’s only one challenge. Cutting these bars is the hardest part. If you cut them too soon they’re gooey. If you wait for the chocolate to harden it breaks in oddly shaped pieces.
So the goal is to cut them just after the chocolate loses gooeyness and just before it hardens.
Using a bench scraper does making cutting bar cookies easier.
As long as you don’t need a perfect look you’ll LOVE these no-bake candy bars! Regardless of how set-up the chocolate is they taste amazing!
How to Make Copycat Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars
- Melt butter and mix in peanut butter, confectioners sugar, and graham cracker crumbs.
- Spread in a lightly greased 9×13 pan.
- Melt chocolate chips and pour over peanut butter mixture.
Tips For Success
- I melt the chips in a microwave-safe bowl using 30-second increments and stir every 15 seconds once the chips have started to melt.
- Have the peanut butter mixture spread out in the pan and ready so that melted chocolate can be poured immediately.
- 1 or 2 tablespoons of oil can be added to the chocolate to help keep smooth if desired
- Cut into bars before chocolate sets-up and becomes hard
OTHER EASY NO-BAKE DESSERTS
- Best No-Bake Peanut Butter Cookies
- Almond Bark Specials
- Creamy Crispy Cookie Treats
- Pay Day Crunch
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Easy Christmas Tree Treats
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats
- Crock Pot Peanut Clusters
- Christmas Chex Mix
I’m so grateful for friends that share great recipes. We hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we have!
Printable Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bar Recipe
5 Ingredient Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter melted
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Melt butter and mix in peanut butter, confectioners sugar, and graham cracker crumbs. Spread in a 9×13 pan.
- Melt chocolate chips and pour over peanut butter mixture. Allow at least an hour for the chocolate to set up.
Notes
- I melt the chips in a microwave-safe bowl using 30-second increments and stir every 15 seconds once the chips have started to melt.
- Have the peanut butter mixture spread out in the pan and ready so that melted chocolate can be poured immediately.
- 1 or 2 tablespoons of oil can be added to the chocolate to help keep smooth if desired
- Cut into bars before chocolate sets-up and becomes hard
Equipment
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If you add a little oil to the melted chic chips, they keep chocolate at better consistency for cutting. Not too gooey, not too hard. A tbsp or so should do it
Just made this last night, but I swear the recipe said pretzel crumbs and less peanut butter?? Am I going crazy? Turned out amazing either way, lol!
So glad the recipe turned out great! I’m going to have to try this with pretzel crumbs, thanks for the idea!
I made this last night and the family loves it
Great! Thanks so much for letting us know!
Could you tell me what size a bag of chocolate chips is? How do I measure that?
Thanks!
Yes! I use a 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips for this recipe. Hope you enjoy it!
I just made these bars with gluten free graham crackers. It was really good. It took a couple of hours for the chocolate to harden.
Excited to make this! Do you leave on the counter to set, or put in the refrigerator to set?
Thanks! We usually leave on the counter to set, but the fridge can help speed up the process. Hope you enjoy 🙂