Easy Baking Ideas - No Bake Peanut Butter Bars
Last Updated on January 13, 2026 by Janell
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This is my favorite time of year! I love to bake so I can't wait to do my holiday baking! I have so many holiday recipes. We have fun putting bags of treats together to share with our friends.
I wanted to add a new recipe to our holiday baking list. I wanted something easy so that my 4 year old could help me. And I really wanted a no-bake recipe since I already had so many other things to bake. We all need easy baking ideas for the holidays!
We had just gone to Walmart and I had bought some Skippy Peanut Butter and Honey Maid Grams so we could make some Gingerbread Houses. So I thought we would see what we could create with the extra ingredients.
I am so happy about this recipe. It is amazing and so easy to make. My kids had a lot of fun helping me crush the graham crackers. No Bake Peanut Butter Bars will be a treat we make in our house year round. It is one of those recipes that you are going to want to make for pot lucks or dessert exchanges. They taste so good and they are so quick and easy to make!
No Bake Peanut Butter Bars
- 1 cup butter melted
- 2 cups Homey Maid graham cracker crumbs (about 12 crackers)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup + ¼ cup Skippy peanut butter (separated)
- 1 ½ cups semi-chocolate chips
Instructions:
- In a large plastic bag add about 12 Homey Maid graham crackers. Pound them to crumbs with a rolling pin.
- Add the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, powdered sugar, and 1 cup of peanut butter in a bowl and mix well.
- Press this mixture in the bottom of a 9x13 pan and set aside.
- In a microwave safe bowl, add the chocolate chips and ¼ cup of Skippy Peanut Butter. Microwave for 30 seconds on 50% power. Remove and stir. Repeat for 15 seconds at 50% power until the mixture is smooth. Spread evenly over the graham cracker mixture. Cover and put in the refrigerator for at least an house to chill.
- Cut into 24 bars. Store in the refrigerator.
We also had a lot of fun using the peanut butter and graham crackers to make Gingerbread Houses. My daughter was very creative with her house and landscaping. My boys had fun too but they were more interested in eating the accessories for the Gingerbread houses. Peanut butter makes a great "glue" to hold the walls together.
We used a piece of wax paper under the Gingerbread houses. It worked best when you had 2 long walls and 2 short walls. Ben decided to just stack a bunch of graham crackers on top of each other inside the house for extra support. When you pick up Skippy peanut butter and Honey Maid graham crackers are Walmart, make sure you also pick up some candy to decorate your Gingerbread house. It's also really delicious to eat peanut butter on graham crackers.
We had so much fun with very simple ingredients! This weekend have a Gingerbread house building party with your kids. You all will have so much fun! You can print a coupon to save $0.50 when you buy one (1) Honey Maid Grahams (12.2 oz. or larger)
What's your favorite dessert made with peanut butter?
I love everything that requires no baking. These sound awesome.
Oh I am loving that gingerbread house. Anything that requires no baking has my name written all over it.
Those look crazy good. All of them... but the peanut butter bars are making my mouth water.
Oh how delicious. That chocolate layer looks amazing. So thick and rich.
These bars look super tasty. I love that they don't require baking!
This is a great little recipe. Nice for when you need to make a snack in a pinch.
Those peanut butter bars look wonderful! Thank you so much for the great recipe 😀
How fun and delicious! Those bars look amazing and like something I really need to make!
I love easy recipes like this one, and who doesn't love PB bars?? The houses came out cute too!
I love this so much, the fact that you don't even have to bake them makes is so much easier; I bet they are delicious!
These look amazing, and the fact that they're no-bake makes them even better!
Wow! This looks super easy! My kids could make this.
Peanut butter and chocolate are an awesome combo. I can't wait to make these.
I make peanut butter balls every Christmas season. It's a tradition. This year I may try these peanut butter bars instead.
I just saved this post to my bookmarks. I love that this is no bake and I plan on making these for my boys.
I love no bake desserts. This one has my two favorites - chocolate and peanut butter.
That sounds awesome. Perfect for kids who love to be in the kitchen
These look delicious! I can't wait to try them out for myself. I pinned them to my Pinterest board for later.
These look awesome! I love that they are so easy to make!
No bake already caught my attention, what an easy but such delicious recipe to make; can't wait to try it!
Ooh what a great sounding idea, they sound delicious and I could definitely do with the no cook part sometimes.
What a great alternative for the usual gingerbread house! Have to try it out with my daughter too! Those No Bake Peanut Butter Bars look delicious!
What a fun little gingerbread building party! Plus the no bake bars are definitively for us to try out
No bake? Yes please! Love their creations. Amazing!
This looks like a delicious activity to do with the kids. I will have to try the recipe for the no bake bars.
I am so in love with recipe. I will have to make these this weekend after I get all the ingredients and the unhealthy peanut butter because all we have is the healthy kind and my daughter doesn't like it. LOL
That sounds so good and it looks even better in pictures maybe that's because I am craving chocolate
I love that they're no bake. I bet the kids would love these here.
Yum! I want to try some of this peanut butter bars! I've never made a ginger bread house before =( looks fun!
These are so cute and I can only imagine how delicious they would taste. I'm going to try this out with my kids.
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Yay! Thanks so much! Have a great week!
I pinned these bars for later use.They look so good!!
The no bake aspect is very appealing.