These simple no-bake chocolate peanut butter crispy bars are given additional bursts of flavour by adding peanut butter and a little honey. Such salty and sweet crunchy bites of delight.
My mother-in-law has a penchant for Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups – well who doesn’t? So along with the chocolate marshmallow crispies I made for our trip up to the New Forest a couple of weeks ago, I also made some chocolate peanut butter crispy bars.
The recipe for these comes from the same book, Mast Brothers Chocolate: a family cookbook and goes by the name of chocolate crunch. The combination of chocolate peanut butter and crisped rice sounded too good to miss.
Crispy Bars or Krispie Treats?
It’s very hard to know what to call these gorgeous rice crispy bars. They’re more commonly known as krispie treats because of the well known brand rice krispies. But krispies is a brand name which I’d rather not use as a name for my snack bars. So I’ve gone with crispy bars. But I could equally well call them chocolate peanut butter crispies or chocolate crunch bars.
What name do you prefer?
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Bars
Everything in the book is in US measures and as I didn’t want to make the vast quantity the Mast Brothers suggested, I had to have a couple of goes at this recipe before I got it right. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
The first batch of chocolate crunch was so crumbly, I ended up with a pile of bits as soon as I tried to cut them into squares. Very tasty bits to be sure, but not the easiest things to eat. I tweaked the recipe and had much better success the second and dare I say it, third time around. The combination of salty peanut butter and sweet milk chocolate is a particularly good one and these crunchy bites of delight are very hard to resist.
They are, of course, incredibly easy to make. It’s as simple as melting chocolate, butter, honey and peanut butter in a pan, then stirring in a load or crisped rice. The most difficult part is waiting for these chocolate peanut butter crispy bars to set.
Other No Bake Chocolate Treats You Might Like
- Bounty full chocolate biscuit birthday cake
- Chocolate & lime cheesecake surprise
- Chocolate puffs (gluten-free)
- Lemon sherbert tiffin (gluten-free)
- Malted superfood bars
- Raw chocolate truffles
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies. PIN IT.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies – The Recipe
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies
Ingredients
- 150 g milk chocolate (I used Green & Black's 37%)
- 40 g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tsp honey
- 60 g crisped rice
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a large bowl set over hot, but not boiling water.150 g milk chocolate
- Add the butter, peanut butter and honey. Stir until everything is melted and combined.40 g unsalted butter, 2 tbsp peanut butter, 1 tsp honey
- Remove from the heat and stir in the crisped rice until all are covered.60 g crisped rice
- Spread into the bottom of a 20cm/8″ silicone cake mould and leave for at least an hour in a cool place to set.
- Turn out onto a board and cut into 16 small squares.
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
Sharing
Because of the predicted hot weather in August, this month’s Biscuit Barrel over at I’d Much Rather Bake Than … is all about no-bake. As it happens the month has been particularly cold. But that’s OK, no bake is always a welcome, if indulgent, treat.
Likewise Treat Petite have also chosen no bake for this month’s challenge. Hosted by Cakeyboi and The Baking Explorer.
As no baking is required and money saved from not having to turn on the expensive oven, I am sending these chocolate peanut butter crispies off to Credit Crunch Munch. This month it is being hosted by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary.
Donald White says
Popup ads kept covering recipe info. Had to “bounce around” to get all the info. I might not return to this site again.
Choclette says
Hi Donald. Sorry to hear this. It shouldn’t be happening. Can you let me know what device and browser you’re using?
Emma Cooper says
I can see why these are popular! I must make some for Ryan, he’s a fan of chocolate and peanut butter too 🙂
Choclette says
I’m sure he will love them, the trouble is in trying to limit your intake!
Kath says
Bloomin heck Choc, these sound good. I WILL be making these.
Choclette says
They really should come with a warning Kath; I’ve made two batches already this week.
Gin says
Wow, these sound delicious! Wish I had one right now.
Choclette says
You know what? I rather wish I had one now too 😉
Hannah says
Do you think I could make these with cornflakes instead of Rice Krispies?
Choclette Blogger says
I think you should give it a try and report back Hannah.
Elizabeth says
This is a proper nostalgic treat – love it (could go some right now!) Thanks for sharing with Credit Crunch Munch
Choclette Blogger says
It really is a piece of nostalgia Elizabeth, but a very tasty one 🙂
Michaela Kenkel says
I love rice Krispy treats, and these with the chocolate and peanut butter sound amazing!
Choclette says
Thanks Michaela
Stuart Vettese says
Choclette, I don’t care if they were crumbly! I’d have gobbled them right up. Thanks for taking part in Treat Petite 🙂
Choclette says
Well it’s true, the crumbliness was their only flaw Stuart 🙂
Kate@whatkatebaked says
A classic combination Choclette- no wonder your Mother-in-Law loves them- did they go down a treat (quite literally!)?
Choclette says
To be honest Kate, she was lucky to get any of them – it was quite a long car journey 😉
Luca Marchiori says
Oh these take me back! They look yummy. Chocolate and peanut butter is such a devilishly delicious combination. May very well have to try. Thanks for posting.
Choclette says
Thanks Luca – not quite up to the sophistication of your entry, but jolly delicious nevertheless.
Karen S Booth says
I am not a peanut butter lover, but M and H are, so here’s a recipe that they would both love! They look so easy to make too! Karen
Choclette says
Not a fan of peanut butter? Oh you strange woman Karen 😉 Do you give in and make peanut buttery treats for the family?
Katie says
Look delicious. I can’t resist peanut butter things. Shame they were a bit crumbly, but put them in a bowl and munch on them like popcorn – yum!
Choclette says
Now that is a fantastic idea Katie – munchies here I come!!!
Jennifer Ferris says
These look wonderful and not at all crumbly!
Choclette says
Thanks Jennifer – they didn’t stay in one piece when bitten into, but that wasn’t really too much of a problem 😉
Fiona @ London-Unattached says
oh memories of childhood there for sure. They look an improvement on normal chocolate ricecrispy cakes
Choclette says
I find any sort of rice crispy type treats hard to resist, but these ones are particularly moreish Fiona.
belleau kitchen says
woman. you are killing me with these gorgeous treats. I too have a HUGE love for anything Reeces… maybe these are so simple to make that I won’t bother… yeah right!
Choclette says
Dom, I am trying so hard NOT to make any of these for us because I know we would go through them way way too quickly.
Laura Denman says
Crumbly or not these are immediate winners with that chocolate/peanut butter combination! I only ate some peanut butter cups yesterday but now I want some more thanks to these. Plus, those crumbly bits are chefs perks =)
Choclette says
Thanks Laura – you are right, these are eminently edible in whatever form 😉
tam says
Yummy! I used to love these as a kid and can quite happily eat them now too : )
Choclette says
Yes, I think these are a treat for ALL ages. I’m just trying hard not to make some for myself because I know I’d go through them way too quickly.
Barefoot Mahala says
they sound delicious. No-one in my family likes peanut butter though, except me, and I’ve recently discovered I’m allergic to nuts. I might have to give the marshmallow ones a go for the kids instead. #UKBloggers
Choclette says
Oh no, that doesn’t sound good news. Nuts is quite a hard one to avoid. Good luck.
Kate Fever says
I am not a peanut butter fan, but my husband and my youngest son love the stuff – definitely going to make these for them! #UKBloggers
Choclette says
Now making something you are not keen on is a sign of true love Kate – I’m sure they will appreciate it.
bangers-and-mash.com says
We’ve switched off our Aga for the summer so I haven’t done any baking the last couple of months and the children are not happy! This recipe though will make them VERY happy – particularly as they are both huge fans of anything containing either peanut butter or chocolate…
Choclette says
Well peanut butter AND chocolate has to be a winner then Vanesther 🙂