Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Candy Bars

A fun, protein packed, homemade candy bar that is sure to be a hit with the kids (plus any adult who loves chocolate and peanut butter)! Great for parties or stick in lunch boxes during the school week. These bars are made from scratch – including the peanut butter filling so less preservatives are used!

Make these Halloween festive with white chocolate and dark chocolate to create some spooky spider web designs and top them off with cute homemade pretzel chocolate spiders

  • Medium
  • 90 mins
  • 8 servings

Uses: Pure Vanilla Extract, Vanilla Paste

Occasions: Fall

Directions

For Peanut Butter Filling

  1. Put all ingredients into a high powered food processor or blender and mix until smooth, stopping and scraping as needed
  2. While ingredients are mixing, line an bread pan with wax paper
  3. Taste the bar base and adjust as needed
  4. While the bar mixture is still warm, press it into the prepared pan evenly
  5. Right before pulling the bars, melt the chocolate (indicated below) until smooth
  6. Flip dough out onto the counter and slice into candy bar sizes
    1. Cut horizontally on bread pan for most of the candy bars
    2. Cut into squares for the spider webs
  7. Follow the below directions based on which fall candy bar you'd like to create any of the following below.

For Chocolate Dipped

  1. Dip the bars until completely coated in chocolate, tapping on the edge of the bowl to remove excess chocolate
  2. set on baking sheet prepped with parchment paper and sprinkle with nuts (if using), wait until completely dry before moving

For Pumpkin Spice

  1. Blend all spices together in a small bowl
  2. Dip bars in white chocolate and using a fine mesh strainer, sprinkle with spice mix

For Spider Webs

  1. Using 1/4 of the melted chocolate, dip the broken side of each pretzel half into chocolate and arrange into the leg position desired, lying flat onto a baking sheet. Set aside until completely dry
  2. Preheat oven to 350F
  3. Dip bar in white chocolate, and drizzle a few thin lines of chocolate across, and take a toothpick and lightly drag it down the bar 2-3 times to create the cobweb effect
  4. Let chocolate dry and prepare the spiders:
  5. Place Reeses on a parchment lined baking sheet (place the amount of Reeses as the amount of candy bars created)
  6. Place sheet in the oven for 5 minutes MONITERING TO MAKE SURE CHOCOLATE DOES NOT COMPLETELY MELT. YOU JUST WANT IT TO BE SOFTENED/SLIGHTLY MELTED DOWN
  7. Before chocolate cools, insert the pretzel legs into position
  8. Let chocolate completely dry before adding to the chocolate bars

Notes:

  • You can use almonds if you don't have peanuts on hand! Other nuts might not give you the same consistency for your candy bars.
  • You can sub. with any sweetener - maple syrup is one of our favorites.

Recipe was prepared for Rodelle by Shelby at @gooey.in.the.middle. Photos and video content taken by Kathryn at @kniftykat.

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