No Bake Tasty Chocolate & Peanut Butter Bars
These tasty chocolate and peanut butter bars require no bake time! In the summer, I try to create recipes that don’t require me to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I’d rather spend my free time outside! Plus, who wants to turn on the oven and make the house hotter on a blistering summer day?
Not only are these bars yummy, but they’re the perfect spring and summer treat. In my opinion, the bars contain one of the best snack ingredients – peanut butter and are super easy to make. Kids will love coming in for a snack to eat these after a couple of hours of fun play outside!
Ingredients
1 C. finely ground oatmeal (I used our food processor to grind the oatmeal)
1 C. powdered sugar
1/2 C. butter, melted
1/2 C. creamy peanut butter + 2 tbs.
1 C. semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
1.Line a 8×8 or 9×9 baking dish with foil or parchment paper.
2. Combine the oatmeal and powdered sugar.
3. Next, add in the melted butter and peanut butter and stir well. The mixture will be slightly thick, that is OK.
4. Press the peanut butter mixture evenly into the bottom of the baking dish.
5. Place the semi-sweet chocolate chips and 2 tbs. of peanut butter into a microwave-safe dish. Heat in 30-second increments, stirring until completely melted.
6. Pour the melted chocolate and peanut butter mixture evenly over the top of the bars in the baking dish.
7. Place in the refrigerator for several hours allowing the bars to harden.
8. Once hard, cut into squares.
*Makes 9 large squares or 18 smaller squares. Store in the fridge.
Yum! These look absolutely delicious! I might have to make some of these this weekend for my hubby!
I love that they are no bake. Chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite combination in the world!
Peanut butter and chocolate – a marriage made in heaven! I can’t decide if I’ll cut them into smaller bars so I can have 2 or the larger ones so I can have a BIG one! They look delicious! Pinning this one!
I could probably eat that entire pan! Those look so good. I love recipes that are easy like that. Thanks for the recipe!
Those look so good! I love chocolate and peanut butter, and I can’t say no to “no bake”!
I love these no bake cookie bars! I used to get them at my daughter’s basketball games all the time!
These are amazing! I have made these before but instead of oatmeal, I used graham crackers! Love this recipe.
I used to make these Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. Mmmmmm loved them and wish I could still eat things like this.
The combination of chocolate and peanut butter is deadly to my waistline but I love it. I will definitely have to give these a try. They look easy which is always a plus!
Here’s a conundrum…I love peanuts but I don’t like peanut butter (unless I use it as an ingredient for cooking and it becomes part of the sauce). I like your recipe and will perhaps make it an extra chocolate bar for me. 🙂
Well these are tempting. Why do chocolate and peanut butter have to be such a good pair?
These look really good. I have tried to make bars similar to these, but it didn’t turn out well.
I’ve actually been wanting to make these. I’m so glad I saw your recipe. Going to bookmark this now. They look so good!
This sounds like such a great sweet treat. Love no bake things for the warm Summer months!
These look delicious! I have the oatmeal, peanut butter, and sugar lying around. I think I’ll hit up the grocery store for some chocolate chips and try these bad boys out for myself!
Yum! I’m going to have to try these. We have kids obsessed with peanut butter so I’m sure they’d love these! They look delicious!
Those came out so perfect! I didn’t realize that they were pretty fairly easy to make. Definitely a great snack for the kiddos.
Peanut butter and chocolate are the perfect flavor combination. These look amazing!
These are, and always will be, one of my all time favourites! I absolutely love the chocolate peanut butter bars AND the fact that they’re no bake. Saves a lot of time…which means there’s more of it that I can spend eating 😛
I am a chocoholic and I love peanut butter as well. Needless to say, that is my kind of dessert! Yum-o!
Oh these look so delicious! I’d love to make a batch of these for myself and my little one, he loves peanut butter and chocolate 🙂
These are the most delicious peanut butter bars. I love that they are no bake too
omg! These sound absolutely delicious!!! My hubby is peanut butter obsessed and I’m constantly searching for peanut butter recipes. I will have to try this out 🙂
I like that they’re no-bake. They look really delicious.
Nice and easy, just the way I like it sometimes. We do a lot of baking for work so sometimes when I want a sweet treat, I don’t feel like baking it. This will be great for those times.
I love anything chocolate and peanut butter. I will have to try these. Can’t believe you don’t have to bake them!
This looks amazing, I’ve always been obsessed with chocolate and peanut butter!! Gotta try it.
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