Easy no-bake peanut butter crunch bars. I love a no-bake treat. I’ve been making protein bites or energy bites for a few years now, and sometimes I’m too lazy to make balls. Making them into bars is even easier and no less delicious.
This recipe is based on one from Dada Eats. I love the addition of lightly salted rice cakes. Total game changer! A little square makes such a delicious treat. Sweet and a little bit salty!
In case you are new here, I join my friends Cindy and Mary Ann every Sunday, and we each share our favorite finds of the week! Mine had to include these bars and a few other things that caught my eye!
The Ingredients You’ll Need to Make These Peanut Butter Crunch Bars
- Peanut butter
- Lightly salted rice cakes
- honey
- Dark chocolate chips (or your favorite kind of chocolate or a combination).
- coconut oil
- Flakey sea salt
Special Equipment Needed:
- An 8×8 pan with square edges (square edges make it easier to cut the bars).
- Parchment paper – Cut the exact pan width of two rectangles, but leave enough on the ends for overhang.
- Binder clips (optional, but it does keep the parchment paper in place).
- A heat-proof glass bowl can be used with a pan as a double boiler or in the microwave.
- Silicone spatula
No-Bake Peanut Butter Crunch Bars
A no-bake treat that gets its crunch from lightly salted rice cakes.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 8 minutes
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter (or any nut butter)
- 4 lightly salted rice cakes
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 1/4 cups of dark chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- Flaky sea salt
Instructions
- Melt the peanut butter in a heat-proof bowl over a pot of simmering hot water on the stove or you could melt it in the microwave.
- Add the honey and stir to combine.
- Mix in the crumbled rice cakes.
- Line an 8×8 baking pan with parchment paper.
- Spread the peanut butter and rice cake mixture evenly on the bottom of the pan.
- Then melt the chocolate chips and coconut oil over a pot of simmering water or in the microwave until smooth.
- Pour the chocolate over the layer of peanut butter and sprinkle with a bit of flaky sea salt.
- Refrigerate for at least an hour and cut into squares. Serve cold and store in the refrigerator.
If you liked Easy no-bake peanut butter crunch bars, you might also like this recipe: Tahini Chocolate Chip No-Bake Protein Bites recipe.
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This Tree Stump Outdoor Table
When I posted about my new black tree stump outdoor side table, I had not yet received it. I did a round-up of a few favorites in this post, but I have to say, this $100 Target table is my favorite.
It’s so pretty that I could see a couple of them, or even three, as a grouping of coffee tables between a pair of sofas. I kind of love that look of a trio of round tables. Modern, yet it works with traditional. But we love it outside too!
Gallery Walls
I have been a fan of gallery walls since I was a child. My friend’s mom had a gallery wall mounted on wool felt pieces as frames. I think they were art cards from museum gift shops, but I could not be sure. This was in the 1970s, so who knows? But this little corner of art left a big impression on me.
I loved this article on gallery walls from Elsie Green. You will probably recognize a few from Pinterest. I have a Pinterest board on Gallery Walls and have pinned a few of these over the years. Follow me on Pinterest here!
Gallery Wall at Elsie Green
You might like this post on Gallery Walls on Big Walls.
And this one…A Shop Tour of Elsie Green
Cafe Curtains
I’m a huge fan of cafe curtains. Nothing fancy. In fact, the simpler, the better. I’m considering adding them to my kitchen and dining room windows instead of shutters. If only I could sew!
Remodelista – Trend Alert: Cafe Curtains Get a Glow Up
Check out this article from Remodelista on the popularity of unfussy cafe curtains.
A Dining Room with Simple Cafe Curtains
You might like this post that I wrote featuring my friend Karen Angelo. Karen used leftover fabric to make simple cafe curtains in the dining room of her Connecticut cottage.
A Connecticut Cottage Inspired by Remodelista
Let’s see what Cindy and Mary Ann found this week in their travels!
Cindy Hattersely Design
Classic Casual Home
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My mouth is watering. I love your wooden Target table. I saw it in person at our Target…it’s great. They had a good-looking concrete one too.
Yes! They had quite a few nice outdoor tables and pots…It was so cold that I couldn’t even think outdoors! One hot day and I ordered it!
Those peanut butter numbers look amazing! I bet Summer would love making those! That Target table is fantastic. I think i need one for my courtyard!
Cindy! The table from Target is the coolest!I could see a few in your courtyard!
xx
Hi Annie,
Thank you so much for a lovely post. Love those cafe curtains l had them in my first apartment and made them by hand as l did not have a machine. The recipe looks divine but l am being good so l will love from afar.
Take care,
Francesca,
Isn’t that amazing that you made them by hand?! I’ll bet they were beautiful! It’s so funny how things have a way of coming back in style. Although it does seem that now if you love something, that’s all that matters. No rules! Thanks so much for stopping by today!
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Annie! These peanut butter crunch bars … oh my gosh! I could eat the entire pan. I’m trying to cut back so I can eat with abandon on vacation … but as soon as I’m back this will be on the menu!!! xo
Juliet, these are so rich that one little square is all you need. Where are you going on vacation? Maybe you mentioned it in your post today…on my way to read it now!
xx
These look DELICIOUS! I love a good bar and would have never thought to use rice cakes! Totally trying these!