Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

4.80 from 5 votes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

My Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Bars are the perfect healthy sweet treat to satisfy those cravings. It's the best combo of sweet, salty and nutty with only 5 ingredients.

Prep Time10

Chill Time3

Total Time3 10

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: brownies and bars, freezer

Servings: bars

Ingredients

1 cup dark chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup puffed rice cereal
1 cup chopped pretzels

Instructions

In a large microwave-safe bowl combine chocolate and peanut butter. Melt in increments of 30 seconds for a total of 1.5 minutes or until the chocolate is smooth (stirring in between).
To the bowl add chopped nuts, puffed rice cereal and pretzels and stir to combine.
Press the mixture into a parchment paper lined square baking pan, and freeze overnight.
In the morning, remove the pan from the freezer, carefully cut it into squares and enjoy straight out of the freezer!

Notes

If you wish to use a double boiler to melt the chocolate you may! .In a double boiler over medium-low heat, melt together dark chocolate and peanut butter, stirring until chocolate is fully melted.
If you wish to make smaller squares you can halve each bar for a total of 24 pieces!

*I have included an estimation of the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget that both your body and soul need nourishment! The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.

Nutrition

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