The chocolate and peanut butter combo is one of the greatest to ever grace the culinary scene. Our selection here shows off dessert recipes with chocolate and peanut butter.
We’ve made sure to have this selection be creative and inspiring, going from simple recipes to the more complex gourmet options, so you can have the best fit to your skills and style.
So, let’s get the creative juices flowing and take a look at these dessert ideas.
Amazing Dessert Recipes With Chocolate And Peanut Butter
1. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Cups
Stand aside, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, we’ve got these amazing chocolate peanut butter cookie cups now. Why? Because cookies make everything better. Also, the texture of the cookies going on to the chocolate and peanut butter combo is mindblowing.
Making the cookie cups just right is a big part of this recipe. In this case, it’s essentially cookies baked into the shape of cups. The recipe makes these peanut butter cookies, so the flavor is enhanced. The outer layer of cookies with the rich chocolate filling is a delicious combination.
2. Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars
This wonderful recipe is easy to make and requires only a few ingredients. It’s also flexible enough to leave room for any variations, changes, or substitutions you might want to employ.
The ingredient list is simple enough with chocolate chips and peanut butter taking center stage. Additional ingredients include butter, sugar, graham cracker crumbs, and a bit of vanilla essence for flavoring.
By and large, the combination of the crackers and butter help keep the peanut butter stable, giving it the texture you’ll need for these peanut butter bars. You’ll have to keep it in the refrigerator for about 2-3 hours. If stored right, it can last several days, making this an excellent make ahead dessert and treat.
3. Peanut Crunch Squares
Sweet, crunchy, and full of flavor, these peanut crunch squares are something to look at. The recipe is easy enough, requires no baking, and can be whipped up quickly. While chocolate and peanut butter are the obvious ingredients, it also includes honey, rice cakes, some coconut oil, and other ingredients.
In some ways, it’s like a homemade chocolate bar with some similarities to snickers. Well, the texture at least has some similarities, considering our use of roasted, salted peanuts. And they also provide a wonderfully contrasting flavor when compared to the sweetness of chocolate and peanut butter.
On that note, the recipe works pretty well even if you choose to use dark(er) chocolates instead of milk chocolate. Just remember this is dessert and there needs to be some sweetness!
4. Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
A no-bake peanut butter and chocolate recipe, this one looks very precious and has gourmet styling. It relies on easily available ingredients, though there is some skill involved in making this dessert. However, the part for true experts is the presentation and styling, which adds a whole other dimension to this recipe.
The key ingredients for this recipe are peanut butter, chocolate, puffed rice cereal, butter, and vanilla essence for flavor. The filling for the interior is made with a combination of peanut butter and puffed rice. Roll this mix into the shape you want, then pour chocolate on top to get the dessert.
You might have to put the dessert in a refrigerator to make sure it sets well and can retain its shape.
5. Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars
These Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars are full of layers of goodness. Each layer brings something to your palate, and to the overall flavor and feel of this recipe. Plus, the toppings are open to your creativity and interpretation, so customizing it to your style is entirely possible.
There is a little bit of creativity involved in the serving, but overall, this recipe will taste amazing even if you don’t get it to be quite photogenic like the one here.
Given the layering, this takes the form of something like a chocolate peanut butter lasagna. There is some baking involved here, though it’s just a few minutes. Yet, that means this isn’t exactly a no-bake recipe.
6. This Crumbl Copycat
This take on the lovely crumbl cookies is both wholesome and delicious. At a glance, peanut butter cookie is inside a chocolate brownie cookie, and the whole combination is covered in melted chocolate with peanut butter chips. Now that sounds decadently delicious!
The chocolate cookie with a peanut butter filling and if you prefer, even a peanut butter layer on top looks like the treat you always wanted. I like how vibrant it looks, even though the conventional colors of chocolate or peanut butter would rarely be described this way.
Thankfully, it tastes as good as it looks.
7. A Peanut Butter Cheesecake
The classic peanut butter cheesecake gets styled for this lovely recipe. A good amount of the chocolatey goodness comes from the crust that’s made from Oreo cookies and the ganache at the top that adds some shiny, silky chocolate. Of course, there are other ingredients, including some cream cheese and heavy cream that bring out the full potential of this cheesecake.
And if you just look at these key ingredients, you’d know that this is a decadent recipe. The rich flavor and the amazing texture really give it the feel of a treat well-earned!
8. Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffle Pie
The richness of chocolate, peanut butter, and truffle are abundant in this wonderful pie. It has great texture and works wonderfully well as a decadent dessert. And, of course, it has some Oreo cookies for good measure. Why? Because, why not!
This vegan dessert can easily go gluten-free, all you have to do is switch regular Oreo cookies with their gluten-free version. Silken tofu is a nice touch here. It helps the recipe stay vegan and gives the pie a wonderful texture that would be dependent on eggs in similar recipes.
9. Peanut Butter Brownie Sandwiches
This dessert has everything to love about it. These are peanut butter brownies. In a sandwich style. The layering of peanut butter and brownies in a macaroon-style, or rather, a sandwich-like arrangement makes these stand out. Simply remarkable.
Technically, the recipe prefers vegan brownies, but take your pick according to what your taste buds command!
10. Fluffy Pumpkin Cake Donuts
Donuts in a cake form sounds very welcoming. They’re even better as these fluffy pumpkin cake donuts. The donuts are vegan and have amazing flavor.
The vegan pumpkin donuts are baked, not fried, bringing them closer to cakes rather than donuts. The batter is made from pumpkin puree, all-purpose flour, sugar, and soy milk. Careful choices go into picking the ingredients so the recipe remains vegan.
Once you’ve got the batter ready, it goes into the donut pan for baking. If you want some decor on the donuts, you can use pumpkin spice sugar for a coating or maple icing to get the looks and flavor going.
11. Peanut Butter Brownies
Peanut butter and chocolate combination truly shines through in these brownies. And if you look at the photo here, you might see an opportunity to show your artistic side.
I think one of them has swirls like the famous painting “Starry Night” while others have similar combinations to offer. Let the chocolate brownie and peanut butter be your canvas!
12. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars
These no-bake peanut butter pretzel bars give a twist to the classic scotcheroos recipe. They’ve still got the same heart, but the combination of peanut butter and chocolate gives things a different style. Also, there’s the goodness of pretzels for that crunch and flavor.
At the heart of the recipe is a medley of peanut butter, pretzel bits, rice krispies, butterscotch chips, and chocolate chips. Apart from these principal ingredients, the recipe also makes use of corn syrup and sugar to add more sweetness.
The chips form the top layer, while the other ingredients go into the batter and provide a wonderful texture with crispy sweet goodness.
13. These Mini Cheesecakes
It’s time to put your cooking skills to good use for the enjoyment of these wondrous mini cheesecakes. This thing has chocolate peanut butter cups put together with a peanut butter cheesecake filling. Now that sounds very much like a wholesome dessert filled with all kinds of amazing treats.
It’s time to put your cooking skills to good use for the enjoyment of these wondrous mini cheesecakes. This thing has chocolate peanut butter cups put together with a peanut butter cheesecake filling. Now that sounds very much like a wholesome dessert filled with all kinds of amazing treats.
For me, mini cheesecakes are a great idea. The bite sized treats are easy to enjoy, and make the dessert easier to serve to a group. The small servings are somewhat similar to tiny muffins and that connection makes them appear even better.
14. No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispie Bars
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Krispie Bars are as amazing as they sound. It helps that though the dessert is decadent, the recipe is actually pretty simple. The ingredients are easily available and very likely sitting in your pantry right now. So all that’s left to do is decide when you want to whip up this dessert.