Recipes Desserts Cookies Bar Cookie Recipes 20 Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookie Bars You'll Want All to Yourself By Mary Claire Lagroue Mary Claire Lagroue Mary Claire Lagroue is the Commerce Editor at Food & Wine. A former associate editor at Allrecipes, she joined Dotdash Meredith in 2019. She has written about food since 2017, covering everything from product reviews to recipes to restaurants. Her work can be found in Cooking Light, Southern Living, and more. Allrecipes' editorial guidelines Published on September 13, 2021 Close Photo: Karla Harmer Chocolate and peanut butter were all but made for each other. Sweet, salty, rich, and buttery all at once, this crowd-pleasing combination works especially well in bar form. These bar cookie recipes are perfect for sharing but are easy enough to whip up on a whim whenever you're craving a chocolate and peanut butter treat. This collection includes no-bake cookie bars and other easy cookie bar recipes with just a few ingredients, including oats, cereal, peanut butter chips, butterscotch, and coconut. 01 of 21 Bun Bars View Recipe Philip Ermish These no-bake bars come together on the stove, first by melting butterscotch, chocolate chips, and peanut butter until smooth to make one layer, then bringing milk to a boil with instant pudding, butter, and powdered sugar to make the other. 02 of 21 Peanut Butter and Chocolate Monster Cookie Bars View Recipe Tammy Lynn Oats, semisweet chocolate chips, and candy-coated milk chocolate candy (like M&M's) give these gluten-free cookie bars texture in every bite. Allrecipes Allstar Tammy Lynn replaced some of the chocolate chips with peanut butter chips. 03 of 21 No Bake Sweet Marie Bars View Recipe EmergGirl "This is a Canadian chocolate bar favorite," recipe contributor FourMs says of these chocolate, peanut, and crispy rice cereal treats. "So delicious and super easy!" 04 of 21 Butter Finger Bars View Recipe Deb C These Butter Finger Bars live up to their name with crispy, crunchy pieces in each bite. Rolled oats bulk them up. 05 of 21 Crunchy Chocolate Bars View Recipe magicallydelicious Who can resist a three-ingredient recipe? Just coat toasted oat cereal with melted chocolate chips and peanut butter before refrigerating the mixture in a pan. 06 of 21 Peanut Butter Pie Bars View Recipe Linda T These pie-inspired cookie bars begin with a graham cracker crust, followed by a slab of sweet peanut butter and a sprinkle of chocolate chips and peanut butter chips on top. 07 of 21 Babe Ruth Bars II View Recipe mauigirl Home cook Maureen shares a tip for taking these bars to the next level: "These are delicious if you like a chewy peanut butter treat. I recommend only covering them in a high quality chocolate (no chips mixed in. I used a higher grade dark chocolate. These are truly awesome!" 08 of 21 Peanut Butter Cup Bars View Recipe These 5-star bars call for just five ingredients: graham crackers, butter, confectioners' sugar, crunchy peanut, and semisweet chocolate chips. Put them in front of a crowd (the recipe makes 48 bars) and they'll disappear in five minutes. 09 of 21 Special Cereal Bars II View Recipe Stephanie Molina A blend of butterscotch chips and semisweet chocolate chips top shredded coconut and crisp cereal bars, with corn syrup for sweetness. "Very sweet," home cook Stephanie Molina says. "A little dab'll do you!" 10 of 21 Easy Buckeye Bars View Recipe magicallydelicious This recipe turns Ohio's beloved buckeye candy from balls to bars. "This was much easier than normal buckeyes," home cook CocoLoco says. "I did use an extra cup of powdered sugar (like another recommended) to prevent stickiness of the peanutbutter and it worked well." 11 of 21 Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bar View Recipe dennis "This chocolate chip cookie dough bar recipe is a quick and easy dessert sure to please everyone. My kids and their friends go nuts when they know I'm making this," recipe contributor Dennis says. 12 of 21 Oatmeal Peanut Butter Bars View Recipe Rae If you love oatmeal cookies, these thick, chewy bars will hit the spot. Many reviewers have replaced corn syrup with honey and have made the recipe their own with add-ins like raisins, walnuts, sesame seeds, and ground flax seeds. 13 of 21 No Bake Chocolate Oat Bars View Recipe homeschooler3 "I [made] about 100 dozen cookies for the holidays and these were everyone's favorite," recipe contributor Joanne says. "These bars can be frozen, just thaw 10 minutes before serving." 14 of 21 Chocolate Scotcheroo Bars View Recipe Karla Harmer Kellogg's introduced Scotcheroos with a recipe on Rice Krispies boxes in the mid-1960s, and these butterscotch and peanut butter cookie bars have been a favorite ever since. Recipe contributor Debbie makes them with Special K cereal. What Are Scotcheroos and How Do You Make Them? 15 of 21 Deluxe Chocolate Marshmallow Bars View Recipe bakeybabe A fluffy marshmallow center complements the crunch of these chocolate and peanut butter bars. 16 of 21 Triple Layer Cookie Bars View Recipe MomTo6 Six ingredients divide into three layers: a butter and graham cracker crust, a coconut and sweetened condensed milk middle, and a coat of melted chocolate chips and peanut butter on top. 17 of 21 Passion Bars View Recipe Dianne As their name suggests, these indulgent caramel, peanut butter, and chocolate chip oatmeal bars will become your newest passion. 18 of 21 Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Dream Bars View Recipe s If you love the crunch of a crispy cookie, these Peanut Butter Monster Cookie Dream Bars are for you. Candy-coated milk chocolate pieces top them off. 19 of 21 Easy Peanut Butter Chip Cookie Bars View Recipe Lela The shorcut behind Easy Peanut Butter Chip Cookie Bars? Refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Treats That Start with a Package of Cookie Dough 20 of 21 My Five Candy Bar Cookies View Recipe Linda T "These candy bar cookies contain 'my five,' which are cookie, pretzel, caramel, peanuts, and chocolate," recipe contributor LARANEFF says. "Lots of steps, but none of them are hard." 21 of 21 Related 20+ Irresistible Cookie Bar Recipes Decadent Desserts Using Peanut Butter Cups The Best Ways to Get Your Peanut Butter Cookie Fix See our entire collection of Cookie Bar Recipes. Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit