With the extra time I have on my hands now, I’ve been scouring through my bookcase filled with cookbooks. Whenever I find a recipe that sounds delicious, I make a batch to send to my husband’s coworkers. This Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Bars recipe that I found in Almost Homemade Cake Mix Desserts was a hit with all of them. What they didn’t realize was the recipe only has seven ingredients and is a breeze to make.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Bars
Imagine a rich chocolate layer, topped with a fluffy peanut butter filling, and sprinkled with more chocolate. Sound good? Of course. But, is it really easy? We’ve all read those “easy recipes” that require finding exactly one eye of newt, a dash of garam masala, and two pigs teeth that must be buried in the backyard for 24 hours before using. This is not that recipe.
The secret to this luscious semi-homemade dessert is its base of a box of devil’s food cake mix. While prep time is minimal, these bars have to chill for an hour before being served. In other words, it’s okay to make them a day in advance and store them in the fridge.
Printable Recipe
- Crust:
- 1 (15.25 ounces) box Devil’s Food Cake Mix
- 1/3 cup corn oil
- 1 egg
- Filling
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 34 cup creamy peanut butter
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, corn oil, and egg until blended. Reserve 1 cup of the cake mixture.
- Spray a 9″ by 13″ pan with cookie spray. Press the remaining mixture into the pan and bake for 10 minutes.
- In another large bowl, mix the sugar, peanut butter, cream cheese, and egg together until blended. Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Spread the peanut butter mixture evenly over the chocolate layer.
- Sprinkle the reserved chocolate mixture over the peanut butter mixture.
- Bake for 20 more mixtures.
- Allow the pan to cool completely and then chill the bars in the fridge for one hour before serving.
Cooking Tips:
*Need it to be gluten-free? Substitute a box of gluten-free devil’s food cake mix for the regular cake mix.
*Want it to have an extra punch of peanut butter flavor? Increase the peanut butter used in the recipe to 1 cup.
If you’re looking for a copy of the cookbook, I believe it is out of print. It was published in 2004 by Favorite Recipes Press. I’ve seen copies floating around eBay for less than $5.00.
I hope you enjoy these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Bars as much as my family and friends did. What are you cooking this week for Tasty Tuesday?
If you’d like even more dessert recipes using cake mix as a base, check out my recipes for Easy Banana Nut Bread
or this Rocky Road Brownies Recipe.
My friends have also joined in the fun with easy meal ideas and recipes you can enjoy.
More Tasty Tuesday Recipes:
Best Banana Pudding | Eat Play Rock
Giant Cinnamon Roll | Cheap Is The New Classy
Easy Olive Garden Sausage Soup | Convos with Karen
Roasted Broccoli Salad and Raisins – Made with Delicious Yogurt Dressing | Recipes for Moms
Ham and Bean Soup Recipe | Outnumbered 3 to 1
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This looks so gooey good. It’s always good to have a tasty dessert lying around and this is perfect. Wonderful combination of flavors.
Oh my gosh, these were so delicious! I made them for dessert last night and they were awesome. Chocolate and peanut butter are my favorite combination.
These bars are exactly what I need right now. Yummy!
This sounds like an amazing combination of flavors! I will have to make this while we are home. What a delicious treat!
Yum! This Chocolate Peanut Butter Cream Bars recipe looks totally mouthwatering! I can’t wait for my wife to try and take a bite of this. Thanks for sharing!
Those look delicious! I look forward to making them once I get all the ingredients!
Bookmarked for later! Chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite food combo.
Peanut butter and chocolate is the perfect combination! These bars are so good!
I’d be too afraid to make this. Because I’d probably eat the whole thing by myself. I’d have to have milk, too!
Peanut butter and chocolate might be the best combination ever. Especially dangerous with all the baking I’ve been doing. Thanks for sharing!
I’m a huge fan of peanut butter. Looking forward to trying this recipe.
“two pigs teeth that must be buried in the backyard for 24 hours before using.” I couldn’t stop laughing! I’ve definitely come across my fair share of recipes claiming to be easy and quick yet the ingredients are less than typical in my pantry. Thanks for the laugh and this eye-teasing recipe!
Yum! These look amazing and my daughter and husband are going to love these.
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Lord, I need this in my life right now! Thanks for the recipe. This will be my next baking project for sure.
Oh my goodness these look incredible, I wonder if I have all that I would need to make them in – I could definitely tuck in!
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That is such a great reicpe and I love peanut butter and chocolate. Being in isolation has given me a lot of time to make special recipes like this for the kids.
I just love this combo! I will be trying these for sure. I always love to have a tasty dessert in the house.