Hello again, fellow peanut butter and chocolate lovers! I know there are a lot of you out there, because every time I post a recipe that uses both peanut butter and chocolate (like this buckeye recipe or these peanut butter bars) my blog seems to explode with people scrambling for the recipe. Can I just say that you guys have excellent taste? Your love of all things peanut butter and chocolate seems to match mine, so today I’m sharing these peanut butter fudge bars with you, and I think you’ll love them as much as I do.
I’d made peanut butter fudge bars in the past following an old recipe that used yellow cake mix. It wasn’t bad, and always disappeared within a few hours. For my own recipe though, I knew that I wanted to make everything from scratch. The blondie layer is based off of my peanut butter bar recipe from a few years ago, slightly modified so that it’s crisp on the outside but soft beneath your teeth. It’s buttery, light, and complements the fudge layer perfectly. It may take a few seconds longer than a box-mix to put together, but it’s easy to make and easy to work with.
Then there’s the fudge. Mmmm, is there anything better than a thick chocolaty layer of homemade fudge?!? This one is so simple to make, just 5 ingredients, and it uses condensed milk, so there’s no candy thermometer required. Making it does require dirtying another dish, but it’s worth it. To make it, you’ll just combine the ingredients in a saucepan until melted, then pour them over your peanut butter blondie base. While the fudge itself doesn’t need to be baked, we obviously need to bake our peanut butter dough, and fortunately the fudge holds up just fine in the oven. However, it will still need some time to set so that it can firm up before you can easily cut into it and have neat peanut butter fudge squares. Or you can attack the whole thing with a spoon while it’s still hot and just go to town on that chocolatey, melty fudge-ness, I don’t judge.
Enjoy! In addition to this one, I have another peanut butter and chocolate recipe scheduled for you next week — one with a Halloween theme. Also, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that you enjoy pumpkin recipes just as much, because that’s basically all I’ve been baking this past week…! If there’s another certain recipe or type of recipe you’d like to see, please let me know in the comments! And don’t forget that at lunchtime today (12:00 EST) you can catch me on my first Facebook Live; I’ll be making my pumpkin cream cheese muffins, hopefully I’ll see you there!
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