Our delicious Cake Mix Peanut Butter Bars are such a great way to make up delicious peanut butter cake bars with the help of plain yellow cake mix that is topped with a delicious chocolate frosting, talk about a perfect dessert.
Surprisingly enough, for this perfect bake sale recipe, you won’t even need semi-sweet chocolate chips to make these cake mix cookie bars.
When you use cake mixes, you can forgo the need to use any brown sugar, all-purpose flour, or any of the other list of simple ingredients.
Make sure to print or pin this recipe and store it in your recipe box for the next time you need an easy dessert recipe.
You can use natural peanut butter for this recipe, or you can even use other nut butters if you’re not a fan of the peanut flavor. If you want to add a little extra twist, you can make them into peanut butter fudge bars! The options are endless for this one. There’s nothing better than easy peanut butter cookie bars, so let’s get started!
Ingredients used to make Cake Mix Peanut Butter Bars:
Peanut Butter Bars
- Creamy peanut butter
- Water
- Large eggs
- Yellow boxed cake mix
Frosting
- Margarine softened to room temperature (or melted butter)
- Milk
- Vanilla extract
- Cocoa powder
- Powdered sugar
How to make Cake Mix Peanut Butter Bars:
- Heat the oven to 350°F.
- Spray a 13 X 9-inch pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl combine 1 cup peanut butter, water, and egg with an electric mixer until the batter is smooth. Stir in cake mix until blended well in the large bowl. Spread into prepared pan.
- Bake 20-25 minutes or until puffed and light golden brown. Cool completely.
- Mix all ingredients with a hand mixer until smooth. Add more powdered sugar or milk until you reach desired consistency and spread the chocolate mixture on top of the bars.
Tip for making our cake mix cookie bar recipe:
You can make these peanut butter treats even more delicious by sprinkling either some peanut butter chips or white chocolate chips on top.
Also, melting a cup of peanut butter and drizzling it over top would be fantastic.
To keep the peanut butter chocolate bars fresh, store them in an airtight container for 3-4 days. If you want the topping to harden, keep them in the fridge.
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Cake Mix Peanut Butter Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- ½ cup water
- 1 large egg
- 15.25 ounces yellow cake mix
Frosting
- ½ cup margarine, softened, 1 stick
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla, (1-2 depending on your taste)
- 3 Tablespoons cocoa powder
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350°F.
- Spray a 13 X 9-inch pan with no-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl combine 1 cup of peanut butter, water and egg in large bowl, stirring until smooth. Stir in cake mix until blended well. Spread into prepared pan.
- BAKE 20 to 25 minutes or until puffed and light golden brown. Cool completely.
- Mix all ingredients with a hand mixer until smooth. Add more powdered sugar or milk until you reach desired consistency and spread on top of bars.
Notes
- You can make these peanut butter treats even more delicious by sprinkling either some peanut butter chips or white chocolate chips on top.
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