If you're dealing with baking fatigue or just want to try one of the best no-bake cookie recipes, grab some Ritz crackers, peanut butter and your favorite chocolate. These three ingredients come together to make one outstanding cookie. They go by the name White Chocolate Ritz Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies, but you can use any kind of chocolate, white, milk or dark.
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Texture and Flavor
White Chocolate Ritz Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies are not overly sweet, but so satisfying because they have everything in terms of texture. You've got the crunchy cracker, creamy peanut butter and smooth chocolate, plus sweet and salty flavors. I've loved these since I was a kid and still do. Plus they're always a hit at cookie exchanges.
Choosing Your Chocolate
I have made these with melted white chips, Hershey Bars leftover from Halloween, and high quality chocolate from different parts of the world. Half the fun of making them is picking the chocolate. I do recommend white chocolate over chips, though. White chips will work, but they don't set up rich and creamy like melted bars or better yet, couverture. For milk and dark chocolate you have tons of options.
Low Sugar Version
Ritz Crackers aren't sugar free, but you can lower the overall sugar content of these treats by using a creamy peanut butter without sugar and something like Lily's brand sugar-free chocolate. I made a few using a melted Lily's caramel flavored bar and they were so good.
Round Silicone Molds
I made a small batch of these because I'd been craving them all day. About halfway through the project I was so frustrated by my inability to neatly dip chocolate that I jumped in the car and drove to Hobby Lobby for a round silicone mold. This was a life changing purchase for less than $5! The cookies look so much better now. I'm very happy with my new mold. If you can't pop by the Hobby Lobby, there are lots to choose from online. They are called Oreo Molds.
Chocolate Transfer Paper
If you are looking for a really cool way to decorate your Ritz sandwiches (or chocolate covered Oreos) try some Chocolate transfer paper. I bought some really cute Christmas patterns of Etsy and they are a snap to do. This was my first one. I'm still getting the hang of it, but overall they are pretty easy and they look so neat.
How to Store These Candies
These freeze quite well, but if you are going to be eating them in the next couple of days they're fine in a cookie tin.
Recipe
White Chocolate Ritz Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients
- 48 ct Ritz Crackers
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- 24 oz your favorite white, milk or dark chocolate
Instructions
- Spread 24 of the crackers with peanut butter and top with remaining crackers to make 24 sandwiches. To keep the peanut butter from melting, you can stick the shaped sandwiches in the freezer while you prepare the chocolate.
- Put all of your shaped sandwich cookies on a plate in the freezer for about 20 minutes so that they will be cold when you dip or mold them. After 20 minutes, transfer them to a freezer bag and dip as many as you want at a time.
- In the top of a double boiler or in a bowl set in or over a skillet of simmering water, melt the chocolate. If using the microwave, melt smaller amounts at a time using 50% power and stirring often. How you melt the chocolate will depend on the type you are using. If using chips, add about 1 teaspoon of coconut oil for every 4 oz.
- Put a big spoonful of melted chocolate in the bottom of a mold. Set a sandwich directly in the center, pressing down so that the chocolate flows from the bottom and up around the sides. Spoon more chocolate in the center.
- Alternatively, set the sandwiches on a rack set over a lined baking sheet. Spoon melted chocolate over and let it drip down.
- Let the chocolate set and room temperature or chill to set quickly. If using sprinkles, add sprinkles or decorations before the chocolate is completely set so that they will stick.
Anna says
Darlene, thank you!
Darlene says
It is great to learn that the bowl of chocolate can be set directly in the skillet of simmering water since I rarely find the right bowl to fit over the pan of water, and I don't own a double boiler. I am grateful, as usual, to learn something new from you, Anna. Thanks for generously sharing all your tips, recipes, and research!
Anna says
Darlene, I love that you took the crackers to the store to measure. If you want the exact mold I have you can order it from Hobby Lobby. About the water, I recently learned that you can set the chocolate melting bowl directly in the skillet of simmering water. It's an option for people who might not have the right size bowls to stack or a double boiler. But you are right, putting the bowl over the pot of water is the usual method and probably better, so I made it say "set in or over". I usually use the microwave.
Darlene says
What a great idea to make these in a round silicone mold! I wish I had a Hobby Lobby close by. The molds sold at Michael's and Joann's are too small to fit a Ritz cracker (I know because I took a wrapped cracker with me to the stores. LOL) Dipping, tapping, and scraping the excess chocolate off the bottom of your fork for each cracker sandwich is time-consuming. (Btw, I believe you meant to say "over" and not "in" a skillet of simmering water in your chocolate melting instructions.)
Anna says
Sue, Oreo truffles are underrated. I always forget about that recipe. The low sugar version of these is really good. I used Ritz Crackers, Teddie brand peanut butter and the Lily's Caramel Sea Salt Chocolate which has a great flavor....until you get the aftertaste. But it's still good if you are watching sugar intake. I'm making another batch today.
Sue K says
I have not ever made these. They do check a lot of boxes for things I like. Crunchy, salty, sweet. Yum! I’m also intrigued by your version with the Lily’s Caramel chocolate.
Another thing I’ve never made is those Oreo truffles. I am embarrassed by how much I like them. I don’t make them because I know I’d have a hard time leaving them alone. I only eat them at parties and then I only have one.