You can get your Peanut Butter fix without turning the oven on when you make these Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars. So simple it’s criminal.
Once I open that jar of crunchy peanut butter it’s hard to stop eating it. It makes me crave sour dough toast with peanut butter and honey. Heaven help me if I ever come across a jar of Reese’s peanut butter chocolate spread that I have seen while poking about the internet, because there is every possibility I could explode. So, as I told you in my post last week, when I was making that rather snazzy Chicken Satay tray bake, I decided my own version of chocolate and peanut butter bars was in order.
Now this no bake peanut butter chocolate slice/ bar is certainly nothing new and it is likely that you couldn’t say it was healthy but THIS version has very special qualities. Yes it has, it is not only a way to avoid turning on the oven, it also requires no special skills at all to make it, this is but this is still not what makes it different. These are Gluten Free Peanut Butter and Chocolate No Bake Bars. They were made entirely with my own selfish needs in mind. I had a few intolerants arriving to visit and an oven full of Chicken with Peanut sauce.
I added a few chia seeds to the mix as well just to add a bit more crunch and the perception of health ( how did that work?). It is easy to fool visitors. The best thing about this great old favourite slice is the fact that it keeps for a fair while. It is still an excellent old fashioned recipe but now it has a new gluten free life.
All you need to do is look around for some gluten free cookies. Rice cookies are perfect
Gluten Free No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars
Ingredients
- 170 gm icing sugar / powdered sugar
- 400 gm rice cookies gluten free , 2 pkts
- 250 gm crunchy peanut butter 1 cup
- 250 gm butter melted
- 2 Tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200 gm dark chocolate chopped
- 40 gm butter extra
Instructions
- Break up the rice cookies in a food processor or by crushing in a bag with a rolling pin.
- Put them into a bowl and mix with the powdered sugar and chia seeds
- Meanwhile put the peanut butter, and vanilla into another bowl and mix in the warm melted butter till combined Stir in the crushed biscuits mixture.
- Scoop into the prepared tin and push down till flat and even
- Melt the butter and chocolate ( I use the microwave on short bursts) till only just warm and melted together. Spread over the peanut butter mixture till smooth and even.
- Refrigerate till set
- Cut into even pieces with a sharp knife
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum Tania! Littlej loves this combination so I can definitely see this as a school holiday treat 🙂 xo
Chocolate and peanut butter are a winning combination. I also love a no-bake recipe. Beautiful photographs, Tania xx
These sound and look amazing and I can eat everything in them – in small amounts though. The chia seeds are an extra plus.
Thanks for linking up with our Fabulous Foodie Fridays party Tania! xx
Peanut butter, sourdough and honey…..my mouth is watering, Tania. These bars look so very inviting!
This is practically health food isn’t it? Better give me an extra big piece 🙂
I love chocolate and peanut butter together. I ran out of PB the other day and had a slight panic. I go for smooth although I wouldn’t chuck either out of bed 🙂
It’s like a gluten free version of the bars I make! Yay! I LOVE THEM!
Yes last summer I did a list of no bake desserts in the hope I would get the time to put them into a book. Time went by and I noticed them appearing more and more including your beautiful ons and Bake Play Smiles lovely white chocolate ones, so I went back to the drawing board to try and make them just a little different.
How clever are you making this yummy slice gluten-free! This is a great idea! I need to do more gluten-free cooking!
Thanks Lucy!
I lol’d at ‘perception of health’. What if I left them out completely, does that mean I’m going straight to dietary hell??
These look terrific!
Ha you are a funny thing. Thats how it works isn’t it if it has a superfood in it it has to be healthy no matter what?
These bars sound almost too good to be true. You’ve given me a serious peanut butter craving. 🙂
Ha thanks thats exactly what I mean
I hear you on peanut butter! I usually buy the peanut only varieties, but if I ever have the type with sugar/salt added, I have to bake with it or the jar is eaten plain way too quickly! These look delicious and just the thing for when that next happens 🙂