These chocolate peanut butter bars are simple to make and sprinkled with lots of great stuff! Try these chocolate peanut butter magic bars when you want to impress someone.
March 25 is Chocolate Peanut Butter Day! This fun, 2nd annual event is hosted by Carla from Chocolate Moosey and Miriam from Overtime Cook. Look for links to more chocolate peanut butter recipes at the bottom of this post.
We’re now at the point in our lives where the kids weekend get togethers with friends sometimes include friends of the opposite sex.
It always adds a fun wrinkle to the weekends.
It also is the single thing on this planet I have found which motivates The Fruitarian to clean his bedroom. It also motivates him to hound me about making treats for date night. Apparently he’s told his friends about the blog, and now everyone is demanding amazing sweets.
I recently made a different batch of magic bars (this one with raspberry!) and they turned out SO delicious, but alas, too ugly for my high blogging standards. It’s actually sort of funny that I just said that, because, let’s face it, my standards are not that high.
BUT, it did make me want to try again to make a magic bar that was not too ugly to photograph.
I do kind of love how these turned out. They don’t have that perfectly gorgeous, not-one-peanut-out-of-place feel, but they do make me want to dive in face first nonetheless.
It’s exactly what I did, by the way. Face first. No lie.
I’m sure The Fruitarian’s friends thought I was nuts that I had to photograph these bars before I served them. But they were patient enough. It’s worth it for chocolate and peanut butter.
Just about anything is worth it for chocolate and peanut butter. And you know who agrees with me? These bloggers! They made amazing chocolate peanut butter treats for you too!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bites by Carla from Chocolate Moosey
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies by Miriam from Overtime Cook
Chocolate Peanut Butter Twix Cake by Susan from The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
{Healthy} Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Bars by Kayle from The Cooking Actress
Chocolate Drizzled Peanut Butter Tiger Paws by Renee from Kudos Kitchen by Renee
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Dip by Becca from It’s Yummi
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cake by Erin from The Spiffy Cookie
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie by Lisa from Snappy Gourmet
Espresso Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting and a Rum Drizzle by Barb from Creative Culinary
Chocolate Peanut Butter Tandy Cake by Cindy from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
Chocolate-Glazed Peanut Butter-Stuffed Doughnuts by Coleen from The Redhead Baker
4 Ingredient Chocolate & Peanut Butter Candy by Colleen from Souffle Bombay
Ganache-Stuffed Peanut Butter Bars by Karen from The Food Charlatan
Microwave Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Pancakes by Taylor from Food Faith Fitness
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Icing by Shashi from Runnin Srilankan
Chocolate Filled Peanut Butter Cookie Cups by Stacy from Food Lust People Love
Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Lava Cakes by Anita from Hungry Couple
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Ice Cream by Renee from Magnolia Days
Crispy Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bites by Lauren from Healthy Delicious
Tagalong Dip by Liz from That Skinny Chick Can Bake
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake Nancy from gotta get baked
Small Batch Chocolate Peanut Butter Doughnuts by Sarah from What Smells So Good?
Funky Monkey Banana Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Balls by Brianne from Cupcakes & Kale Chips
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies by Diane from Created by Diane
Chocolate, Peanut Butter, & Roasted Banana Shake by Jennie from The Messy Baker
Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars by Jen from Jen’s Favorite Cookies
Chocolate Doughnuts with Peanut Butter Glaze by Lauren from Lauren Kelly Nutrition
Have fun sifting through this list. I know I will!
Want more? Try these chocolate peanut butter treats!
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk, 14 oz.
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup peanuts (I used the lightly salted kind)
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter chips
- ½ cup crisp rice cereal
- Place cake mix and melted butter in a mixing bowl, and mix until mixture is wet and a little crumbly. Press into a greased or lined 9x13 pan.
- Pour sweetened condensed milk over the chocolate mixture, spreading if necessary to reach to the edges.
- Place peanut butter in the microwave for 30 seconds, to melt. Pour peanut butter over the sweetened condensed milk.
- Sprinkle with peanuts, chips, and cereal, pressing down if necessary. Bake at 350F for 30-40 minutes. Let cool completely before cutting into 12 large or 20 small bars. (Bars may be a bit soft and gooey.)
I’d want to dive in face first on these bars too. Yum!
Don’t you just love how our kids want us to cook for their friends?? OR the friends come sniffing around just to see what we make, lol! Too cute! Love the swirl and the cake-like consistency, any kid or adults would love these!
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“Perfectly gorgeous, not-one-peanut-out-of-place feel” bars are overarted – these (with condensed milk) however – are mouthwatering!!!
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These seriously look dangerously good, Great recipe for today!
What a delicious snack! And so easy to make!
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Chocolate butter peanut bars are just great
I haven’t had magic bars in years, love this creative twist on them!
Theese bars totally look delicious and like a surefire way to snag you a daughter-in-law ;P lol!
I think I told you this already, but I’ve never made magic bars before and only ate them once or twice in my life. I think I need to fix that in my life with this recipe! 😀
I’m surprised there were even 9 available to photograph! Love these gooey bars!
I love the addition of rice krispies! I could probably eat the entire pan full.
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So many layers of awesome!
Hey, those kids have no right to be making any demands. If you need to photograph the bars before they descend upon them like a bunch of free-loading jackals, by gawd, they’re going to wait 😉 You should’ve still posted the “ugly” raspberry bars because a) I highly doubt they were that hideous-looking and b) who cares so long as they taste good?! I kinda want to purposely make ugly food to post on the blog,just for kicks! These bars look delicious, Jen! I love anything with chocolate, PB and rice krispies!
These are definitely snack happy material!
I love the whole idea of magic bars, these look fantastic
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