Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars
Five-ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars! Rich and fudgy one pan dessert with sweetened condensed milk, a graham cracker crust and lots of chocolate and peanut butter chips. These cookie bars disappear quickly - like magic!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars
The recipe for these cookie bars came off a can of sweetened condensed milk and they were originally called "Welcome Home Chocolate Bars."
While I can see how anyone would love to be welcomed home with these goodies, I thought the name was a little...nondescript.
Instead, I call them Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars. They are very similar to Seven Layer Magic Bars, except there are only five ingredients. So I guess you could call them Five Layer Magic Bars.
Either way, I like them seven times better than Seven Layer Bars because these ones are all about the chocolate and peanut butter chips!
We've been making them for decades and they never disappoint.
P.S. If you love peanut butter chips, try these Peanut Butter Chip Blondies!
We also love No Bake Peanut Butter Pie and the best Monster Cookies which are really peanut butter oatmeal cookies stuffed with chocolate chips and M&Ms!
I love how easy these bars are to make! All the ingredients go straight into the baking pan, so there's minimal cleanup.
Melt the butter in the dish while the oven is preheating. Add your graham cracker crumbs to form the crust.
Top with sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips and you're done!
Bake until melted and gooey, or bake a little longer until golden and chewy. The choice is up to you.
The type of chocolate chips you use is your choice as well. Usually we use semi-sweet. This time I used a combination of bittersweet and dark chocolate and it was divine!
With the dark chocolate I was craving the addition of salt. Next time I'm adding a sprinkle of French sea salt after they're done baking.
These bars would also be so good with a pretzel crust instead of graham crackers!
Let your imagination run wild. That's what I love about these bars.
They're so easy to throw together with ingredients you already have on hand. So go ahead and make them soon. Welcome home...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars
5 ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Magic Bars! Rich and fudgy one pan dessert with sweetened condensed milk and a graham cracker crust.
Ingredients
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter
- 1 ½ cups graham cracker crumbs (about 10 crackers)
- 1 can (14oz) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Place butter in 13x9 baking dish and place in oven to melt.
- Meanwhile, crush graham crackers if they are not already crumbs.
- Remove baking dish from oven and sprinkle crumbs over butter. Carefully press into an even layer. Pan will be hot!
- Drizzle sweetened condensed milk over crust, sprinkle with peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.
- Return to oven and bake for 25-30 minutes. Less cooked bars will be gooey, longer cooked bars will be golden and chewy.
- Remove from oven and cut into squares while still warm.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 100Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 44mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 1gSugar: 9gProtein: 2g
Nutritional information provided is an estimate only. Please consult the labels of ingredients you use for more accurate results.
I found this recipe 20 years ago, probably also on a can of condensed milk. It's one of my most favorite ever desserts and is requested by family members at every holiday! I love it so much just like this recipe, but I'm going to add a little shredded coconut to half for my boyfriend. I'm sure that will be yummy too!
I absolutely love these bars! Where I live there's a local restaurant that sells them for more than $3 a bar! I like them but knew they had to be easy and cheap to make. I was looking everywhere for a copycat and this recipe is EXACTLY it! Now I can make them anytime I want and can have a whole tray to myself for the price of about three bars! Thank you so so much! Also, I've frozen these bars and the biggest difference is the crust loses it's crunch. So if you don't mind a slightly mushy bottom they freeze decently!
Thanks! Good to know!
Holy Mylanta! Yu-uh-ummm! But I didn't have any peanut butter chips, so I added a little dark brown sugar to about 2-3 tbsp of peanut butter and melted it a little in the microwave. Then poured it over the sweetened condensed milk after it was on the crust. Then the chocolate chips and then poured the remaining peanut butter over that. AND..5 or so minutes before it's all done, I sprinkled the top w mini marshmallows and baked until they were toasted. After it's all cooled down they are easier to cut into squares. It's just the best blend of all sweet cravings in one glorious EASY to make yum yum bar.
Very resourceful with the peanut butter!
Delicious
In oven now, can they be frozen?
I have never tried freezing! I think sweetened condensed milk can be frozen, so it should be ok but I'm not sure. If you try it please let us know the results!
Thanks for the recipe! I made them for dessert..oh hi my goodness..They are Delicious!!! My family and I love them. Will be making these alot😊
Thank you for letting me know! 🙂 I'm so glad your family loved them as much as mine does!
When you say magic you ain't messin' around! These things look AMAZING! Like, I might eat an entire pan in one sitting kind of amazing.
I'm right there with you - and I felt no shame! 🙂 Thank you, Karly.
They look so good. Nothing beats chocolate with peanut butter, thanks a lot
I have to agree. Thanks!
These look and sound absolutely divine! I can't wait to make these! And eat them! ...every last crumb!
These look perfect for when I have the munchies and nothing but sweets will do!
Ooo at first I thought these were blondies but I like the looks of this recipe even more! Great idea 😀
Ooooh yes yes yes! These DO sound like magic. They'd be amazing with that extra dash of sea salt too. I'll be making these asap, thanks! 😀
I just made them again for a Sunday potluck and added the sea salt on top - SO GOOD! 🙂
I wish I had never seen this recipe! It's so easy and convenient, that I could see myself whipping up a batch every time the thought flitted through my chocolate-addicted head! And I need to fit into my wedding tux by October!