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 – The Recipe
Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies
Ingredients
- 150 g 37% milk chocolate – I used G&B
- 40 g unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp pure peanut butter
- 1 tsp honey
- 60 g crisped rice
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a large bowl set over hot, but not boiling water.
- Add the butter, peanut butter and honey. Stir until everything is melted and combined.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the crisped rice until all are covered.
- 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
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.
I can see why these are popular! I must make some for Ryan, he’s a fan of chocolate and peanut butter too 🙂
I’m sure he will love them, the trouble is in trying to limit your intake!
Bloomin heck Choc, these sound good. I WILL be making these.
They really should come with a warning Kath; I’ve made two batches already this week.
Wow, these sound delicious! Wish I had one right now.
You know what? I rather wish I had one now too 😉
Do you think I could make these with cornflakes instead of Rice Krispies?
I think you should give it a try and report back Hannah.
This is a proper nostalgic treat – love it (could go some right now!) Thanks for sharing with Credit Crunch Munch
It really is a piece of nostalgia Elizabeth, but a very tasty one 🙂
I love rice Krispy treats, and these with the chocolate and peanut butter sound amazing!
Thanks Michaela
Choclette, I don’t care if they were crumbly! I’d have gobbled them right up. Thanks for taking part in Treat Petite 🙂
Well it’s true, the crumbliness was their only flaw Stuart 🙂
A classic combination Choclette- no wonder your Mother-in-Law loves them- did they go down a treat (quite literally!)?
To be honest Kate, she was lucky to get any of them – it was quite a long car journey 😉
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.
Thanks Luca – not quite up to the sophistication of your entry, but jolly delicious nevertheless.
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
Not a fan of peanut butter? Oh you strange woman Karen 😉 Do you give in and make peanut buttery treats for the family?
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!
Now that is a fantastic idea Katie – munchies here I come!!!
These look wonderful and not at all crumbly!
Thanks Jennifer – they didn’t stay in one piece when bitten into, but that wasn’t really too much of a problem 😉
oh memories of childhood there for sure. They look an improvement on normal chocolate ricecrispy cakes
I find any sort of rice crispy type treats hard to resist, but these ones are particularly moreish Fiona.
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!
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.
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 =)
Thanks Laura – you are right, these are eminently edible in whatever form 😉
Yummy! I used to love these as a kid and can quite happily eat them now too : )
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.
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
Oh no, that doesn’t sound good news. Nuts is quite a hard one to avoid. Good luck.
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
Now making something you are not keen on is a sign of true love Kate – I’m sure they will appreciate it.
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…
Well peanut butter AND chocolate has to be a winner then Vanesther 🙂