No-bake Chocolate Peanut Crunch Bars are a quick and easy treat, perfect for a healthy snack or a sweet indulgence. You’ll need only 10 ingredients and less than 10 minutes of prep time, using a single bowl for minimal cleanup.
The main ingredient, drippy natural peanut butter, can be substituted with any nut or seed butter of your choice, making this recipe highly adaptable to different dietary preferences or allergies.
Protein Peanut Crunch Bars
No Bake homemade crunch bars using just one bowl, 10 ingredients and less than 10 minutes!
Prep time
10 min
Total time
10 min
Serves
10 - 20 servings (depending on how big you cut the pieces!)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Drippy Natural Peanut butter (can substitute any nut or seed butter)
- 1/3 cup Honey (melted) or maple syrup
- 2 Tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup of collagen protein powder
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips, melted (I like enjoy life brand)
- 1/4 cup hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup sesame seeds
- 1 cup Puffed Rice Crisps*
- flakey Salt, to top
Preparation
- Step 1Line an 8 x 8-inch baking dish or deep baking tray of choice with parchment paper and set aside.
- Step 2In a medium bowl mix together peanut butter, honey or maple syrup, coconut oil, and vanilla together until smooth.
*If your peanut butter is not drippy, but quite firm add more coconut oil*. - Step 3Add in collagen protein and mix together.
- Step 4Add in melted chocolate and mix in
- Step 5Lastly, add in puffed rice, hemp seeds and sesame seeds and mix together until combined.
- Step 6NOTE - Mix quickly before the mixture starts to harden as the chocolate cools. I like to use my hands to mix it
- Step 7Pour into an 8x8inch pan lined with parchment paper and Press it down firmly!
- Step 8Sprinkle with flakey maldon sea salt (press in to help it stick) and let it set in the freezer for up to an hour.
- Step 9Cut into bars and then you can store it in the fridge or freezer.
Enjoy!
Notes
*Look for puffed rice without added sugar. aka not rice crispies brand