Munchkin and D love Reese’s peanut butter cups, and their favorite kinds are the specialty ones at the holidays as there is more peanut butter in those. Yesterday, I got to thinking about some peanut butter bars that my mom use to make. I decided to change them up a little as the original bars are not gluten free due to the recipe calling for graham cracker crumbs. The result was absolutely delicious.
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Bars Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 cup butter (I used salted as I wanted some of that saltiness)
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp peanut butter
Directions:
- Melt butter in microwave safe mixing bowl or on stove.
- Stir almond flour into the melted butter and mix until thoroughly combined.
- Add in peanut butter and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Sift powdered sugar into mixture and mix until thoroughly combined.*
- Prepare 9 x 13 pan (grease with butter or line)
- Evenly press peanut butter mixture into pan.
- In a microwave safe bowl (or over double boiler) combine chocolate chips and 4 tbsp of peanut butter. Microwave at 30 second increments – mixing after each increment – until chocolate mixture is smooth.
- Pour chocolate over peanut butter mixture. Evenly spread chocolate to cover peanut butter mixture.
- Place in refrigerator for 1 hr to set.
- Cut into small squares and serve. Store in airtight container.
*Don’t forget to sift the powdered sugar or you’ll end up with some lumps. I was quickly whipping these up and forgot to sift, so I had a few lumps in this batch which you can see in the above picture.
This recipe is featured in The Christian Home Magazine issue 55.
I am so making these TODAY!!!
Heather recently posted..Finding Joy In Depression
yummy!!!!!!! bet D and Munchkin loved them
jen recently posted..Winning Competitions!! AND My Dear Loving Sister
Yes, they were very much enjoyed by both of them. 🙂
These look great – I think the lumps even look yummy! I’d make them, but I have no clue what almond flour is. LOL
Heidi recently posted..miscellany monday ~ 3/19/12
lol! If you’re not gluten free, you can just substitute finely ground graham cracker crumbs for the almond flour (aka finely ground almonds).
Do you have any suggestions for another gluten-free flour that I could substitute? We’re nut-free as well as gluten-free, and I’d love to try this with sunbutter. Maybe I’ll just try with my all-purpose flour blend of millet, sorghum, and starch.
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Since the original recipe that my mom used called for graham crackers, I decided to use almond flour because I knew it had a similar texture and great taste. I’m not sure about using a different gf flour with it. If you try it, you’re going to want to use a very mild gf flour so it doesn’t overpower the delicate sunbutter flavor.
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