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These simple No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Bars are rich and chewy with hearty rolled oats, creamy peanut butter, dark chocolate chips and a touch of maple syrup (optional) for a delicious afternoon snack and more!
There isn’t a peanut butter chocolate treat I have ever met that I didn’t LOVE. These rich chocolate peanut butter oatmeal bars are for sure a favorite in this house and I imagine they will be in yours soon as well.
Inspired by my favorite peanut butter oatmeal balls, these bars are super simple to whip up and have the chocolate melted right into them. YUM!
Check out these other recipes if you love pb and chocolate as well: Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats, No-Churn Peanut Butter Cookies and Cream Ice Cream, and Chocolate Peanut Butter Overnight Oats.
Why You Will Love These Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Bars:
- No baking required.
- Simple, minimal ingredients.
- Kid friendly!
Recipe Ingredients:
Step-By-Step Instructions:
Recipe Tips
- I use natural creamy peanut butter. I find it is always nice and drippy and never dry. That is ideal for any recipe like this. However, since you are heating the peanut butte in this recipe, you may be ok still with a no stir peanut butter. It may be a little bit thicker and more dry.
- Almond Butter works great as well as cashew butter. I haven’t tried it with sunflower seed butter but I imagine that would be great as well.
- All about that drizzle! These are great with a nice peanut butter drizzle! I think it makes them look extra fancy as well.
Try these other simple snack recipes:
- No Bake Samoa Bars
- No Bake Cookie Butter Cookies
- Lemon Coconut Bars
- Copycat Perfect Bars
- Flourless Peanut Butter Chip Muffins
- No Bake Snickerdoodle Cookies
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No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup rolled oats, regular or gluten free
- 1/2 c natural creamy peanut butter, or nut butter of choice
- 1/4 cup 100% pure maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 T cocoa powder
- 3 T butter, melted (or coconut oil for dairy free)
Instructions
- In a small sauce pan, combine peanut butter, maple, vanilla, butter, and dark chocolate chips.
- Heat at med-low heat stirring constantly until chocolate chips are melted.
- Remove from heat and stir in cocoa powder.
- Pour mixture over oats in a mixing bowl and stir to coat oats.
- Press the mixture firmly into a small pan (I use a 6×8 inch or bread pan) lined with parchment. You can also roll into balls, flatten into cookies.
- Chill for about 30 minutes before cutting.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The video showed ‘sea salt’ but it is not listed with the ingredients?!?!?! Such a great recipe! Thank You for sharing!
Oops! You are right!! 1/4 tsp! I am updating this recipe soon so will make sure to add that in. Thanks for catching it!
I don’t see anytihng about the drizzle and where do you even find a 6*8 pan?
Hi! The drizzle is just plain old peanut butter. I added it when I updated the photos but hadn’t updated the recipe to add it as an option. So I have a 6×8 Pyrex glass rectangle dish. However, I have made these in an 8×8 and not pressed it all the way to one edge, leaving a 2 inch space. I’ve also used a bread pan to make them nice and thick. Hope that helps!
What is serving size to = 1000 calories
Hi! I’m not quite sure. I don’t focus on calories due to my history and relationship with food. I’m sure you could plug the ingredient into a counter to get the details. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Just made these as an afternoon snack/treat…SO DELICIOUS!! Thank you for sharing your talent for food and wise words XOXO
Kat, I’m so glad you liked them! They are my new favorite for sure. I brought them to work to share and they were gone in an hour so I took that as a sign of approval. Thanks again for the kind words. 😉
Thank you so much for sharing yourself and showing what it’s like to be vulnerable. I am working on sharing feelings so I really appreciate your openness.
Sherry, I really appreciate this comment! Putting my fears and anxieties down on “paper” has been such amazing and freeing therapy. It’s not easy though that’s for sure so thanks for the encouragement! It really means a lot.