Easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Dessert
If you’re a chocolate and peanut butter dessert lover, you’ve found your end-all-be-all dessert. If you’ve tried ‘lush’ desserts like lemon lush or ‘better than…’ desserts, this recipe is a chocolate-peanut butter version. Licking the bowls kept getting better and better with each step and layer in the recipe. The dream bars truly live up to their dreamy name. It’s an almost no-bake recipe (the crust bakes for 10 minutes) that’s easy, goof-proof, rich, decadent, and guaranteed to be raved about by your friends and family. There are so many textures and flavors that make the bars irresistibly dreamy. There’s a crunchy, salty-and-sweet Nutter Butter Cookie crust, topped with silky chocolate pudding, topped with a peanut butter-cream cheese-COOL WHIP layer. I could just eat a bowl of just that. Finally there are peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and Nutter Butters for added crunch and a boost of peanut butter flavor. Call these bars what you will — chocolate peanut butter dream bars, chocolate peanut butter lush, or chocolate peanut butter lasagna — so long as you make them!
Ingredients in Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars
For this decadent chocolate peanut butter lasagna, you’ll need:
Nutter Butter cookies Unsalted butter Instant chocolate pudding Milk Cream cheese Confectioners’ sugar Creamy peanut butter Cool Whip Whipped Topping Chocolate chips Peanut butter chips
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
Recipe Video Tutorial
How to Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars
This chocolate peanut butter dessert does require some layering and active prep work, but it’s incredibly simple to make. I used regular JELL-O Instant Chocolate Pudding Mix rather than sugar-free. I used Fat-Free COOL WHIP with success. I recommend using regular, no-stir peanut butter and not homemade or natural peanut butter. The layers go in the following order: crust, chocolate pudding, PB-cream cheese mixture, Cool Whip.
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