5 Ingredient Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars

This easy no-bake dessert is the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter!  With only 5 ingredients these chocolate and peanut butter bars are fast, easy and DELICIOUS!  This recipe belongs on every holiday dessert tray.

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No-Bake Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars

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.

Also called Buckeye Bars, these are the easiest version of copycat recipe for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups that I’ve ever had!

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 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.

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

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

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5 Ingredient Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars

This easy no-bake dessert is the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter!  With only 5 ingredients these chocolate and peanut butter bars are fast, easy and DELICIOUS!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars, no bake dessert

Prep Time 15 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Servings 20 bars

Calories 350 kcal

Author Jennifer @ Plowing Through Life

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter melted
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
• 2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Melt butter and mix in peanut butter, confectioners sugar, and graham cracker crumbs.  Spread in a 9x13 pan.

2. Melt chocolate chips and pour over peanut butter mixture.  
   

Recipe 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