- If you think peanut butter and chocolate are a match made in heaven, then my crunchy, creamy
no-bake peanut butter bars are for you. And if you like this video, don't forget to hit that
like button and subscribe. Hey, you're watching "Preppy Kitchen," where I, John Kanell, teach you how to make
delicious homemade dishes to share with your family and friends. These no-bake peanut butter bars will be ready before you know it. So let's get started. First off, get a baking dish for this no-bake treat and line it with parchment paper or foil. Four snips at the corners
is all you need to do. Fold it. You could use an eight by eight or a nine by nine inch square dish. It's really up to you, though. It's just gonna be how thick
your peanut butter bars are. Now after it's been cut and folded, it should just kind of gracefully plop in with a little bit of help. Your dish is ready to go. Everything will come out in a snap and there'll be no cleanup. It's perfect. Get a large bowl out and we're gonna place one
cup of butter in there. I'm using unsalted because my
peanut butter has salt added, but it's kind of to taste. So it's however you want. Cutting it into pieces so it melts easily and this is gonna go into
the microwave in bursts of like 30 seconds until
everything is nice and melty. Cutting your butter makes it melt faster but it also helps prevent
the dreaded butter explosion in the microwave, which I have had happen
to me way too many times. Okay. 30 second bursts until it's all melted. We'll be right back. Once your butter is melted, set it aside for just a bit and then we need to
crush some crackers up. I'm using graham crackers today but you could use any cookie
that you enjoy as well, like speculoos cookies, AKA Biscoff, shortbread, everything will work. But graham crackers are a classic choice. You know what? Easiest way is just to
place this on your counter and crush, crush, crush. (crackers crunching) This is fun. By the way, you can buy pre-crushed graham crackers, but I actually like the
bigger pieces in this. There's something so amazing
about creamy peanut butter with crunchy crackers
and the chocolate inside. It's a really delicious treat. We want about two cups
of crushed crackers. If you're weighing it out, that's 240 grams. I had some extra saved over from before. I should've crushed this on the paper. That would've been so much easier. Oh, oh, well. I have my butter melted, my crackers crushed, and it's time to add the peanut butter. I want one cup. It's easiest to weigh it out though, because you know, transferring it to a cup, then transferring it to a bowl. That's too many dishes. You'll want 300 grams or so. All these measurements are you know, it's give or take. Any way you cut it, this is gonna be delicious. So you can have a little bit less, a little bit more. You could do things like
use crunchy peanut butter or creamy. It's whatever you'd like. Oh. I'm gonna set my scale
aside for just a little bit and now we're gonna cream this up until it's nice and smooth. You don't want any pockets of
pure butter hanging around. So just get a nice, smooth consistency. Nice and like, buttery peanut butter. This actually reminds
me of my favorite snack. I liked toast with butter and
peanut butter on top of that. It is (blowing kisses) delicious treat. I should've been monitored in
the kitchen a little bit more. Now it's time to add
in the powdered sugar. I want 210 grams. That's one and three quarters of a cup. I think that makes these perfectly sweet. You want powdered sugar because it's gonna be
really, really creamy. That matches well with the crunchy. You don't want granulated
sugar that's gonna crunch on your teeth in all the wrong ways. Scale's done. Now mix this up one more time
until it is nice and smooth. And work on getting any clumps
of powdered sugar broken up. (mixer whirring) Okay. Clean those beaters off. Before I add my crumbs in, I'm gonna just scrape the
bowl down a little bit. There might be a bit of
powdered sugar or butter here and there that we want to just mix in. One cup. Two cups exactly. That's amazing. I didn't measure it out before. Fold this in. The reason we're not mixing it is just because we wanna maintain
those larger cracker pieces. There's really no watery liquid in here. So even if you refrigerate
these for a couple days, the peanut butter bars
are still gonna have that crunchy, creamy, delicious texture. It really adds a lot to them. If you wanna be fancy, you could add a teaspoon of vanilla. You could add any flavors you'd like. Maybe a touch of cinnamon. It's really up to you. As is, this is basically amazing. Get your square dish out again and we're going to just
transfer the mixture into this and smooth it out. I'm having to restrain myself and not just put this
directly into my mouth. Just smooth it out right now to the edges. It definitely does not have to be perfect. We're gonna cover this all with
chocolate in just a moment. After you're done smoothing, you can let this hang
out in the refrigerator while we make our chocolate topping, just to get it started on the chill. To top off our peanut butter bars, we're adding in one and a half
cups of semi-sweet chocolate. In you go. And you could use a little bit less, like down to one cup if you want a thinner layer of chocolate. You could also use milk or bittersweet. It's really up to you. I'm also adding in the magical ingredient, which is a quarter cup or
65 grams of peanut butter. This is gonna go into the microwave in 30 to 40 second bursts and you want it to be almost all melted. The residual heat will
complete the melting process. Also, stir after each burst. In you go. Few bursts in the microwave and you can see there are
a couple of lumps here, but all you have to do
is just stir, stir, stir. It's pretty hot, so any little bits of chocolate will melt and be silky smooth. I can't tell you how amazing chocolate and peanut butter melted together are. They are the best. So as you can see here, this is perfectly smooth. It's ready to spread. So let's get that peanut butter
bar back out of the fridge. Okay, let's pour this melted
chocolate over the top. Oh my gosh. Melty, delicious, amazing. I'm smoothing this out with my spatula and just move it towards the ends. All right. So now just move that spatula back and forth and create a nice little wave. One more quick trip into the
fridge and we'll cut them up. My peanut butter bars chilled for a little bit over an
hour and they're totally set. That, by the way, is the magic of parchment paper. Fold your paper down and
then just cut them into bars that you enjoy eating. They could be small rectangles, squares, whatever you'd like. You can hear the crunching of
the graham crackers right now. It's amazing. These peanut butter
bars are ready to enjoy. If you like this recipe, check out my dessert bar playlist. Now it's time for a bite. Crunchy, creamy, salty, sweet. I'll see you in the next video.
