These Magic Peanut Butter Bars are straight out of heaven, full of melty peanut butter, chocolate chips, and more. You will love this amazing layered chocolate peanut butter dessert!
What you are seeing here is a graham cracker crust covered with melted peanut butter, layered with mini chocolate chips, chopped peanuts and pecans, sweetened condensed milk, and mini peanut butter cups. There is more peanut butter drizzled on top, for good measure.
Have I used the word heavenly yet? They are heavenly.
I love magic cookie bars but I know not everyone likes coconut, which is a staple ingredient in classic magic bars.
Peanut butter desserts are a favorite for many, so, I came up with this peanut butter magic bar recipe as an alternative and it has gotten rave reviews!
Ingredients
- Graham Crackers
- Butter
- Sugar
- Peanut Butter
- Mini Chocolate Chips
- Mini Peanut Butter Cups
- Pecans and Peanuts (optional)
- Sweetened Condensed Milk
Equipment Needed
| 9x13 Baking Dish | Medium Mixing Bowl |
| Silicone Spatula | Small Microwavable Bowl |
How to Make Magic Peanut Butter Bars
- Mix melted butter, graham crackers, and sugar together.
Pack tightly into a 9x13 baking dish. - Drizzle ¼ cup melted peanut butter over the graham mixture and then sprinkle half of the mini chocolate chips and half of the chopped nuts on top of that.
- Drizzle sweetened condensed milk.
- Cover with the reserved chocolate chips, nuts, and peanut butter cups.
- Drizzle with more peanut butter and bake at 350 degrees.
- Let cool completely before cutting and serving.
How to Store
- Chill bars in the fridge to help them set more quickly.
- Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.
If you make these magic peanut butter bars, please leave us a comment and a positive review! They mean a lot to us.
Peanut Butter Magic Cookie Bars
Video
Equipment
- Mixing Bowls
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs
- ⅛ cup sugar
- ¼ cup peanut butter
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1 cup mini peanut butter cups
- 2 tablespoon peanut butter for drizzling
- 1 cup peanuts and pecans mix optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix melted butter, graham crackers and sugar together. Pack tightly into a 9x13 baking dish.
- Drizzle ¼ cup melted peanut butter over the graham mixture.
- Sprinkle half of the mini chocolate chips and half of the nuts over the graham cracker crust.
- Drizzle sweetened condensed milk.
- Cover with the rest of the chocolate chips, nuts, and peanut butter cups.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the crust is set. Let cool.
- Drizzle 2 more tablespoons of melted peanut butter over everything.
- Let bars cool entirely before cutting into them.
Notes
Nutrition
Kara
I didn't think magic bars could get any better, but as a peanut butter fan, I am in heaven. These are so dang yummy!
Toni
This is such an ultimate treat! Such a perfect treat for peanut butter lovers!
Sha
Kids super enjoyed these delightful magic peanut butter bars. They're melty, full of flavors and decadent. Highly recommended!
Melissa
These are absolute perfection!!
Bryce B
These bars were delicious
Kim Bickmore
Such a great idea and so yummy! I love all things PB and Chocolate!
Terry
Wow! Can’t wait to give this a try. Looks incredible!
Phyllis
As stated above....a BIG FAIL...the butter would NOT incorporate with the ground graham crackers. Didn't even make it past step one 😩
I have never left a bad review before but wanted to save someone else the expense of ingredients! Plz double check the amount of butter to graham crackers Sarah! Thx so much!
Was hoping I could add a picture with this review!
Sarah
I'm so sorry about this! I will make the recipe this weekend and figure out what needs to be changed. I appreciate your feedback. :)
Sarah
Hey Phyllis, I wanted to apologize about the bad experience you had with this recipe. I know that can be incredibly frustrating when you spend time and money on a recipe and then it isn't good. I took a day to test and re-work this recipe to make sure it was going to work for people going forward. I have changed the ratio of butter to graham crackers, as well as added nuts to the recipe (optional) so if you ever want to try it again, I'd love to hear what you think about it! My testers insisted it was their new favorite dessert.
Mena kroboth
Don’t make this, there is too much butter, if I would have had more graham crackers I would have added it I also think it needs more peanut butter
Sarah
Hey Mena, I'm so sorry you didn't have a good experience with this recipe. I do think you're right that I had too much butter in the recipe before. I took a day to re-work the recipe and test it thoroughly so that these magic peanut butter bars would be a success for anyone who makes them in the future. I changed the ratio of butter to graham cracker crumbs and added nuts to the recipe (optional, but delicious.) I feel confident that the recipe is great now and my testers loved it. Thank you for your honest feedback, if you hadn't commented I wouldn't have known to make these changes.
Tom
I think the recipe is miss printed. I think it should be 1 1/2 stick melted butter and 2 cup crushed graham crackers. Way too much butter as written!! Ended up being one big gooey mess ?and a waste of expensive ingredients.
Sarah
Hey Tom! I'm so sorry it didn't work very well for you. There are so many factors that can go wrong when baking. I'm pretty sure it is correct, there is a lot of butter in these, but I will try this recipe again myself and see if it's better with less butter.
Debra skaggs
soooo yummy!
Maggie Rossetti
Hey! Where is the recipe? I definitely want to try this out!
Sarah @ Pretty Providence
Oh my gosh I don't know how but it looks like it accidentally got deleted before I published! It's here now :)