No-Bake Peanut Butter Chex Mix Bars
These Chex Mix chocolate peanut butter bars are such an easy, no-bake recipe that literally takes less than five minutes to whip up. Five minutes. The hardest part is waiting for them to cool enough to dive into. The next time you need a dessert to bring to a picnic, potluck, party, kiddie classroom or birthday party, or some after school snacks your kids are going to adore, these easy no bake chocolate peanut butter bars are a hit with both kids and adults alike. They’re like eating a dessert version of Chex Mix complete with pretzels and M&M’s. They are salty-and-sweet, which is a personal favorite of mine. Chocolate tastes so much better when there is a little salt present and the pretzels lend the perfect amount of salt to accentuate the chocolate. And of course, chocolate + peanut butter is an irresistible combination. The bars are crunchy, chewy, and a little bit gooey. Every bite has so much texture that you’ll want to keep taking one more bite. Since I love cereal bars of all types these bars were an automatic hit for me and my family too.
Ingredients in Chex Bars
There are just six ingredients and every single one is a winner:
Pretzel rods Corn Chex cereal M&M’s Butter Peanut butter Marshmallows
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Bars
The no-bake Chex peanut butter bars are one of the easiest desserts you can make! Here are the basic instructions:
Tips for Making Chocolate Peanut Butter Chex Bars
I sprinkled an additional half-cup marshmallows on the top for both visual appeal and taste, but that does require two bags of marshmallows. Therefore, the extra marshmallows sprinkled on top are optional if you don’t want to buy a second bag of marshmallows. I realize not everyone has bags of half-eaten marshmallows laying around like I do. Same goes for the M&M’s; a 10.7-ounce bag is exactly 1 1/2 cups, but I wanted some extra M&Ms on top for visual appeal since the ones that are in the bars melt quite a bit and they aren’t as intact and colorful so I dug into a second bag of M&Ms.
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