Have you ever had Ben & Jerry’s Chubby Hubby ice cream? Oh boy, that stuff is good y’all. They don’t call it Chubby Hubby for nuthin. It’s vanilla ice cream with chocolate and peanut butter and pretzels. It is creamy and sweet with a hint of saltiness from the pretzels. If you like that combination of flavors then you are sure to love these bars. They are basically chocolate chip cookie bars with peanut butter and pretzels added. I took a few samples into work to see what the gang there thought and it got a big thumbs up across the board so I knew this would be a great one to share with y’all.
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. table salt
3/4 cups butter (1 1/2 sticks), room temperature
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1/3 cup chunky peanut butter
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups, semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
1 1/2 cups chopped pretzels, divided
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
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Bake for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp table salt
- 3/4 cups unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks) room temperature
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup chunky peanut butter
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips divided use
- 1 1/2 cups chopped pretzels divided use
- 1/2 cup peanut butter chips
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Spray a 9 x 13 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray (I like the kind that has flour in it.)
- Put your pretzels in a sealable bag, and chop them up (roughly). I just pound mine with a rolling pin.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
- Using a mixer, beat together butter, light brown sugar and white sugar at medium speed.
- Mix until combined and fluffy.
Add in eggs, vanilla and peanut butter.
- On low speed, slowly add in your flour mixture just until it is incorporated into the batter.
Now add in 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1 cup chopped pretzels. Stir this mixture up with a spoon, batter will be very stiff.
- Spread batter into baking pan.
- In a small bowl, mix together your remaining toppings, 1/2 cup chopped pretzels, 1/4 cup chocolate chips and 1/2 cup peanut butter chips.
- Sprinkle mixture over top of batter.
- Bake for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Ohhhhh…. this looks like my kind of dessert!
I would love to have one of these. I hate it when I see something that makes me drool and I know I can't get the ingredients here. I *could* get them shipped though. 🙂
Oh man I am sure that these are soooo addicting!
They definitely look delicious. This is the kind of dessert that might last a half day in our house. Hubby would eat them for meals, not just as a snack!
I need to make these!!!!
Made these. Love them.
Oh my gosh!
I'll be pinning this for SURE!
I love your recipes and your blog!
Seriously yummy! Those would make a chubbier me 🙂
I love everything about this, save the pretzels. Mmmm, that would make for a chubby hubby!
Whoa mama!! This is devine! Would it be bad if I topped it with Chubby Hubby ice cream too! LOL!!
Where does the other 1/4c of peanut butter chips go?
Anonymous, thank you for catching that. It should say 1/2 cup, not 1/4 cup. 🙂
Myohmy! You sure know how to make my mouth water! No doubt, this is a marvelous and delicious recipe. Love the whole idea of sweet/salty together. Gonna have to make them soon. Thanks Brandie.
These look so good that I'm going to try them in the next day or so even though I'm stuck on bed rest for three weeks. (Sshhhh) I've seen this recipe on another blog as well but theirs had caramel in it and no peanut butter. Debating on whether to put the caramels in or not….probably not since I didn't have the hubs pick any up at the store just now. LOL Thanks for your great recipes as always!!!
Sandra in NM
These look so good! They also reminds me of those Take 5 candy bars. They are my favorite!
Brandie,
These bars are amazing with all of my favorite flavors, chocolate and PB. Then you went and added pretzels, and they are over the top.
Congrats on the Top 9 today!
Sandra..LOLz. You sound like me! Hope you like them!
Looks really tasty, I love the sweet and salty factor. Congrats on the top 9 🙂
yum!!!
Going to make these for our next get together! Thanks so much Brandie!
Just took them out of the oven…they smell so good. Are they worth a mouth burn to not wait until they've cooled to taste? LOL
MMMMM…mi vant now!!! I just found you blog and I so proud to say we share the same sweet tooth… Ive got plans, now! Thanks….
YUM 🙂 Hahaha I love the name Chubby Hubby hehe its definitely got all the ingredients my boyfriend would love hehe and i love your chubby hubby bars 🙂
Thanks for the recipe! My hubby was just wanting me to make some dessert eith pretzeld. Usefu
Tip….use an old cereal bag for crushing the pretzels. Cereal bags are much sturdier than ziplock bags and take a rolling pin beating much better!
Just got done putting a pan in the oven. If they taste as good as the batter…yumm-o!! My hubby will love these tomorrow for Valentine's Day! Thanks for all your wonderful, down home recipes!! I usually have the ingredients and can try things immediately! Love that, Brandie! Thanks.
Just finished popping a pan into the oven. Can't wait to try them…the batter is wonderful!! My hubby will definitely enjoy these tomorrow!! Thanks for such good, down home recipes. Love them!
I made these last weekend. Very tasty and a big hit at our party!
We couldn’t taste the peanut butter at all. To be fair, we forgot the peanut butter chips, but still couldn’t taste the PB that was mixed in. Thanks for the recipe 😊
The peanut butter chips make all the difference! 🙂
FYI – your PDF version is missing the chocolate chips from the ingredient list..
You are so right! Thank you for catching that!