Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
These no bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars are so delicious, your family will beg you to make them over and over again!
I am serving in my third year as a Harvesters Ambassador. Harvesters is the community food network that serves the greater Kansas City area, providing over 42 million meals each year. From working with Harvesters, I’ve learned that there is a great need for food assistance in the summer, which surprised me! Up to 18 million kids in our country are at risk for insufficient meals during the summer months. This is because they lose access to free and reduced school lunch programs during this time.
As a parent, I try to frequently have the conversation with my son about children going hungry in our community. He’s still pretty little, so I try to relate our conversation to something he loves dearly. Right now, that’s peanut butter! My little guy loves peanut butter and chocolate everything , like these no bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars, and his favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
So, when we visit our local Price Chopper, we always pick up some extra peanut butter, and put it in the donation barrels. Peanut butter is something that my son loves, but it’s also a wonderful item to donate. It’s shelf stable, and stretches a long way. It’s also filling and full of protein, perfect for filling hungry bellies when meat might not be feasible.
Besides donating canned goods, there are other ways to help! This web-site provides great resources on how to have these tough conversations with your children. Once you have the conversation, you can talk with your children about how they’d like to help. Harvesters has many ways to help solve the summer nutrition gap, including giving food, giving time, or giving money. You can find all of the options to help on Harvesters web-site under “Take Action.”
I hope that you enjoy these delicious Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip bars! If you have any questions on how you can help fix summertime hunger in our community, drop me a comment.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
These peanut butter chocolate chip bars are so easy to make! The layers come together quickly for an easy peanut butter chocolate dessert!
Ingredients
- 13 graham cracker sheets
For the peanut butter layer:
- 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ¾ cup creamy peanut butter layer
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter (softened)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
For the chocolate layer:
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Instructions
- Prepare a 9x9 baking pan by lining it with foil and then spraying the foil with non-stick spray.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine peanut butter, butter, salt, and powdered sugar. Mix together until crumbly.
- In a microwave safe bowl, add the chocolate chips and vegetable oil together. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir and microwave again for 30 seconds at a time, until the chocolate chips are melted.
- Line the bottom of your pan with graham crackers. Then, spread about a ¼ cup of chocolate across the top.
- Next, take your peanut butter mixture and make balls with the peanut butter in your hand. Smash the balls flat and lay them out on top of the chocolate layer, covering the entire pan.
- Spread another ¼ cup of chocolate on top of the peanut butter. Make another layer of graham crackers and then top with the remaining chocolate.
- Place into the freezer for 30 minutes.
- When ready to eat, allow the bars to sit out on the counter for 5-10 minutes first, then slice and serve.
- Store leftover bars in the freezer..
Notes
These are messy to make but once they've hardened in the fridge, they should cut clean!
Nutrition Information
Yield 9 Serving Size 9Amount Per Serving Calories 574Total Fat 34gSaturated Fat 13gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 18gCholesterol 14mgSodium 266mgCarbohydrates 68gFiber 4gSugar 49gProtein 8g
The nutrition for this recipe is calculated by an app and may be incorrect.
Bless you for working along with Harvesters and donating to help the children, well, and adults. Those Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars look delicious and although, sweet nutritious as well.
Thank you very much Gladys. I really love helping Harvesters out.
I don’t really like peanut butter. But this recipe is so easy! I’ll keep this to cook for the neighbor.
These look so yummy! And I can make them with gluten free Graham crackers so I can eat them too! Can’t wait to try it out.
What an awesome opportunity to work with Harvesters! These Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars look and sound amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Oh this sounds amazing! I’m going to make this for 4th of July!
These look so good! I’m not that big of a fan of chocolate, but i do love peanut butter.
We absolutely love peanut butter and chocolate together. My kids would definitely go wild for these!
Chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite combination. I’m going to have to try these.
I want to go make this right now! Looks so delicious.
What a wonderful post! These look so nice, I love the chocolate & peanut butter combo. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I love trying out quick treat recipes for my family and I am sure they will appreciate this decadent looking bar. Plan to make it tomorrow for them 🙂
Do you know what a good UK substitute for the Graham crackers would be? I’d like to make this but they are not a regular ingredient here.
It sounds like ginger and digestive biscuits are similar, but not exactly the same? Those are the recommendations I keep seeing!