Chocolate Peanut Butter 7 Layer Bars are a gooey dessert with layer upon layer of both flavors melded into one delicious bar. They are quick and easy treat, sure to please a crowd.
I love seven layer bars. One of my first posts on this blog, was these Seven Layer Bars. They are always a yummy, versatile treat that you can really make any way you want. While I love the regular seven layer bars, I also enjoy experimenting with different kinds. As always, chocolate and peanut butter are my most favorite flavor combination, therefore I found it fitting to put them into a seven layer bar. Chocolate Peanut Butter 7 Layer Bars were created from these notions.
Chocolate Peanut Butter 7 Layer Bars are like a marriage of chocolate and peanut butter. The two flavors become one as they melt and mold together in the oven, creating a delicious bar. One of my favorite things about various versions of 7 layer bars or magic bars, whatever you like to call them, since they are basically the same thing, are their ooey-gooeyness. I love ooey-gooey.
I also love Oreo’s, butter, chocolate, peanut butter chips, peanut butter, Reese’s, and sweetened condensed milk…so basically everything in these bars!
Really though, what’s not to love?
- 1 package (14.3 oz) Oreo's (regular or peanut butter)
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup peanut butter chips
- 8 full size Reese's, chopped
- *1 cup peanuts (Optional)
- 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
- 3/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Finely process the Oreo cookies. Mix the cookie crumbs in a medium size bowl with the melted butter until well combined. Press into a greased 9x13 inch pan to form the crust.
- Layer the milk chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, Reese's, followed by the peanuts (if using) over the crust.
- In a small microwaveable bowl, microwave the peanut butter until melted, this should take around 60 seconds. Add half of the can of sweetened condensed milk to the melted peanut butter and mix until smooth. No need to measure out the sweetened condensed milk into exact halves, just eyeball it. Place the remaining sweetened condensed milk in a small bowl and mix with the cocoa powder until smooth.
- Pour the peanut butter/sweetened condensed milk mixture over top of the bars, followed by the cocoa/sweetened condensed milk mixture. Bake about 25-28 minutes. Let cool at least fifteen minutes before cutting.
- *I don't like nuts in my bars, but if you do, I'm sure you would love them added to these bars! Technically, they aren't seven layer bars without the nuts :). I used some toffee bits instead of nuts, but I would prefer them without toffee...or nuts :).
