Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

These melt-in-your-mouth chocolate & peanut butter energy bars taste light and crispy, but don’t be fooled, they will power you through an intense workout without giving you a sugar rush or feeling heavy in your stomach. Nuts, dates, brown rice krispies, and toasted coconut chips are held together by bittersweet chocolate melted into peanut butter. Super simple and no-bake!

So… little old me has started rock climbing, skiing again, trampolining, and ice skating this winter. What does this all mean?? It means I need MORE SNACKS to power me through. Womp womp.

These energy bars are really mysterious hunger killers. They’re not dense or brick-like at all, and they have none of that weird protein bar flavor. Instead they’re creamy, crispy, slightly crunchy with chewy bits of date, nutty, and barely sweet. One bar keeps me satisfied for two hours of rock climbing and even after that, I don’t feel the need to devour a vegetarian whale of a dinner. Considering I am a human who needs to munch on something every half hour, that’s pretty solid.

Not gonna lie, it will look like a total blobby mess when you first dump the mixture in the pan, but don’t worry! Just pop it in the fridge or even the freezer. It will solidify magically, as chocolate does, and then you can trim off the edges with a big sharp knife, cut the whole thing into neat little rectangles, and eat the scraps. You know how they say the edges are best? They really are.

The only thing about these bars is that they do need to be kept cold to hold together. You can store them in the fridge or, seeing as it’s winter, just keep them in the back seat of your car so you can grab-and-go!