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| No Bake Peanut Butter Crack Bars |
There is nothing better than peanut butter and chocolate, and best of all, this is no bake!
So easy to make and so delicious!!! It’s just hard to wait while they chill.
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| No baking required |
There’s many versions of this all over the ‘net, but none of them have this nice crispy crackly topping. Just like eating a Nestle’s Crunch Bar!!! But you can leave out the crisp rice cereal if you prefer. To me it just adds a little interesting point to something already indescribably delicious.
Great snack for summer (hey, no oven!!!) or any time!
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No Bake Peanut Butter Crack Bars
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Total time
Author: Judith Hannemann
Serves: 9
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1¼ cup graham cracker or saltine crumbs
- 1 cup peanut butter, smooth or chunky
- 1 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 cup dark chocolate morsels
- 2 tbs creamy peanut butter
- 1 tsp vegetable shortening
- ¾ cups crisp rice cereal
Instructions
- Line the bottom of an 8 x 8-inch square pan with parchment or aluminum foil.
- Mix the melted butter with the cracker crumbs, the one cup peanut butter and confectioner's sugar. Turn into prepared pan and spread evenly in pan. Chill for about 1 hour.
- Place chocolate morsels, 2 tbs peanut butter and shortening in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on HIGH for 1 minute. Stir until mixture is smooth. You may have to return the bowl to the microwave for another 15-20 seconds if morsels are not completely melted.
- Add the rice cereal to the chocolate mixture, stirring to coat well.
- Spread on top of chilled peanut butter mixture and return to refrigerator to chill until firm, about 3 hours.
- When well chilled, cut into 9 bars.
- Serves 9
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| No-Bake Peanut Butter Crack Bars |
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Marcie FlavortheMoments says
July 18, 2013 at 8:13 pmThese look delicious! I love that they're no-bake, and I just love peanut butter and chocolate.
mamateeche says
August 6, 2013 at 5:30 pmSounds yummy, similar to ones we have made for years, though I like the layer idea. I wouldn't recommend using vegetable oil for much of anything. Coconut oil or organic butter are much better choices 🙂
kelley says
September 1, 2013 at 8:00 pmconfused about how much peanut butter for this..calls for it twice in recipe, yet the amount is strange is it split for each instruction, 1 tbsp then? of 2 tbsp 2x?
Judith Hanneman says
September 1, 2013 at 8:03 pmThe one cup of PB is for the BOTTOM layer. The *topping* contains the 2 tbs of additional PB
Judith Hanneman says
September 1, 2013 at 8:12 pmI edited the recipe Kelley so it makes it clearer.
Mary Meyer says
January 18, 2014 at 1:08 pmCould you double this recipe for a
9×13 pan? Or would that make them to thick?
Judith Hanneman says
January 18, 2014 at 2:54 pmI'm sure you could Mary and my guess is they'd be about the same thickness. A 8" or 9" square pan is usually called for when you halve a recipe from a 9 x 13.
Kevin says
September 6, 2014 at 1:30 amJust made a batch. Foodgasmic!
Judith Hanneman says
September 6, 2014 at 1:51 amGlad you like them!
Linda Smith says
September 16, 2014 at 11:43 amI just found this recipe yesterday & made them right away ! THEY ARE FANTASTIC!!!!! I'll be making these often cause we LOVE peanut butter & chocolate !! Thank you so so much !!!!
Judith Hanneman says
September 16, 2014 at 3:02 pmI love pb & chocolate too!! Many versions of these around but I threw in some rice krispies for crunch and body! Glad you all liked them!