CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BARS
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Made with a cake mix short-cut, Chocolate Peanut
This dessert snack is ooey, gooey, decadent, and incredibly simple to make.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Something magical happens when you mix peanut
Please tell me if you can eat just! I can’t.
Just look at that thick ribbon of chocolate. And, the crust is buttery with a little crunch and texture.
If you’ve been following me, you know I’m all about quick and easy! Using a cake mix for the crust and topping makes the prep time for these bars very quick. Furthermore, the hardest part is waiting for them to cook.
If you want really pretty squares, you’ll need to wait until they cool completely or even chill them in the refrigerator to get those perfect, bakery-style cuts. However, if that isn’t a priority to you, dive right in as soon as they’re cool enough to handle!
How to Make Peanut Butter Bars with Cake Mix
- Gather your ingredients. This easy peanut
butter bars recipe starts with a chocolate cake mix! If you want to use a vanilla cake mix, that will work as well. - Melt
butter and combine with the cake mix.
- Add peanut
butter . Any creamy, non-stir variety is best.
- Add the eggs. Crack the eggs into a bowl before adding them to the batter. This way, if you have broken egg shells, they won’t end up in the batter.
- Melt the chocolate. I usually microwave the chocolate chips in 30 second bursts at high power, stirring in between each burst.
- Add sweetened condensed milk and stir.
- Bake! Pour batter over the crust mixture in the pan, add the topping, and bake in a preheated 350° oven.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- 15.25 -ounce package yellow cake mix
- 6 Tablespoons butter melted
- 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
- 2 large eggs
- 12 ounce pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Combine cake mix, butter, peanut butter, and eggs in a large bowl. Press into a 9×13 cake pan reserving 1 cup to crumble on top.
- In a small saucepan, melt chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and butter. Stir until smooth, remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour over cake mixture in pan. Spread evenly. Crumble remaining cake mixture over top.
- Bake 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely before cutting into bars.
In your write up, you mention oatmeal. I don’t see oatmeal in the ingredients or the picture instructions, Is oatmeal in these bars? I’d add that the crumble topping is easier to do if yor refrigerate the reserved cup of crust while you prepare the rest of the layers. These are scrumptious without oatmeal when the recipe is followed as written!
That was an error, there is not oatmeal. Thanks for letting me know.
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Chocolate and peanut butter – yum!
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This recipe is one I have to pin to my sweet treats board. There is no competition when it comes to goodies containing PB&Chocolate!
Your chocolate peanut butter bars are to die for! They look so delicious! We appreciate you linking up to our Strut Your Stuff Saturday link party! Please come back again soon! -The Sisters
Yum! Thanks for sharing this on Saturday Show and Tell. I hope you’ll be back again this week with some more great ideas!
-Mackenzie
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Your blog is making me gain weight! Just by looking at it! Chocolate and peanut butter? Two of my favs. 🙂
Thanks all! I can say, they were delish and oh so easy to make! Thanks for visiting!
Looks soooo delish!
these look amazing!I may have to try them!
Your chocolate and Peanut butter bars look so good, always a winning combination! I'll have to make these, hope I don't eat them all myself!
These look delicious. I love PB and chocolate.
Thanks so much for sharing at Heavenly Treats Sunday!These looks so good!
Paula, My peanut butter chocolate loving son could probably live on these. Thanks for sharing them on foodie friday.
Paula,
I just might have to make these right now! They look amazing, and who doesn't LOVE chocolate and PB together! Thanks so much for sharing at Creative Thursday this week. Have a wonderful weekend.
Michelle
I found this from the Happy Hour Projects Linky Party, and I must say “YUM!” I think I actually have all these ingredients in my pantry, so it looks like my kids will be in for a treat soon.
Bonny @ thedomesticatedprincess.blogspot.com