No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars taste like Buckeyes or Reese's cups in bar form. This recipe includes a dash of cinnamon for extra flavor.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 minuteminute
Total Time 11 minutesminutes
Servings 36
Author Cookie Madness
Ingredients
1 ½cupsgraham cracker crumbs
½teaspon cinnamon
2sticks8 oz butter, use regular salted type or add ¾ tsp. salt to recipe
1 ½cupspeanut buttercreamy or chunky
2teaspoonsvanilla extract
2 ½ to 3 ½cupspowdered sugar
1 12-oz.bag chocolate chips or 12 oz good quality milk chocolate
Instructions
Line a 9x13 inch pan with foil.
Mix the crumbs with the cinnamon. Set aside.
Melt the butter in a large saucepan or in a microwave-safe bowl. Combine melted butter, peanut butter and vanilla and stir until fully blended, then stir in the graham cracker crumbs.
Add the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time and taste test at 2 cups. You may not want to use the full 3 ½ cups, but you'll need to use enough to make a stiff dough. Press mixture into the pan.
Melt the chocolate chips in microwave using 50% power and stirring every 30 seconds or in the top of a double boiler set over barely simmering water. Pour melted chocolate over peanut butter mixture. Chill for one hour. Do not chill too long or the chocolate will get too hard to cut.
When the chocolate is set but not completely hard, lift from the pan and cut into small squares.