Looking for an easy holiday dessert recipe? Try these scrumptious, no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars:
- Only 4 simple ingredients needed
- Vegan and flourless with no refined sugar
- Rich peanut butter cup flavour and fudgy texture
- Quick to make with no baking required
Don’t those sound amazing? Read on to learn all about this crowd-pleasing dessert.
What are No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars?
These bars have an irresistible chocolate peanut butter flavour, similar to peanut butter cups. But unlike most peanut butter bar recipes, these are:
- Made without graham crackers, powdered sugar, or butter
- Naturally sweetened with just maple syrup
- Bound together using oat flour instead of regular flour
This makes them vegan, flourless, and free of refined sugars. Pretty amazing for such a decadent treat!
The Simple Ingredient List
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To make the bars, you only need:
- Creamy peanut butter
- Maple syrup
- Oat flour
- Bittersweet chocolate chips
Oat flour is just oats blended into a powder, so it’s perfectly safe to eat raw, and using it keeps the recipe non-bake.
Easy Preparation Method
Preparing the bars is super simple:
- Combine the peanut butter and maple syrup
- Mix in the oat flour to form a dough
- Put the dough mixture into a pan that has parchment paper lining the bottom and sides.
- Melt the chocolate chips with a little peanut butter
- Pour the chocolate mixture over the dough base
- Refrigerate for 2-3 hours to set
That’s it! No oven is required. Just a few basic steps for an amazingly rich dessert.
The Perfect Holiday Treat
With their fudgy peanut butter cup flavor, these bars hit the spot for any chocolate peanut butter lover. They make an ideal dessert for holiday gatherings and celebrations.
The best part? Since they’re so easy and don’t require baking, kids can even help make them! It’s a fun family activity.
So if you want a crowd-pleasing vegan dessert without any fuss, give these decadent no-bake peanut butter bars a try. Your guests will never guess they’re actually pretty healthy!
What’s your favourite kind of holiday dessert? Would you make these no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars?
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