These homemade sweet and salty Chubby Hubby Bars were inspired by the cult favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream. So good!
CHUBBY HUBBY BARS RECIPE
Have you ever had Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream? 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.
TIPS FOR MAKING THESE SWEET AND SALTY BARS:
- The fun part of this recipe is you can really have fun with the ingredients. I am using a mix of peanut butter and chocolate chips and pretzels. You can switch it up with dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or even add some crushed up salted potato chips instead of pretzels.
- These bars should be eaten within two days or can be frozen for up to 6 months.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)
all-purpose flour
baking soda
salt
unsalted butter
light brown sugar
sugar
eggs
chunky peanut butter
vanilla extract
semi-sweet chocolate chips
chopped pretzels
peanut butter chips
HOW TO MAKE THESE SWEET & SALTY BARS (STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS:)
Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray a 9x13 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. You don't want them to be pulverized. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Give it all a good stir with a fork or a whisk.
Using a mixer, beat together butter, light brown sugar and white sugar at medium speed. Mix until combined and fluffy.
Mix in eggs, vanilla and peanut butter.
On low speed, slowly add in your flour mixture just until it is incorporated into the batter. Overmixing the batter can result in a tougher bar.
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. Or you can turn your mixer back on the lowest setting until it is combined, just don't overmix it. Spread batter into baking pan. This stuff is pretty thick so just do your best to spread it out evenly.
In a small bowl, mix together your remaining toppings, ½ cup chopped pretzels, ¼ cup chocolate chips and ½ cup peanut butter chips.
Sprinkle mixture over top of batter.
Bake for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
Cool before cutting into squares.
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CHUBBY HUBBY BARS
These homemade sweet and salty Chubby Hubby Bars were inspired by the cult favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream. So good!
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Servings: 12
Calories: 505kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ¾ cups unsalted butter (1 ½ sticks), room temperature
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ⅓ cup chunky peanut butter
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups chocolate chips, divided use
- 1 ½ cups chopped pretzels, divided use
- ½ cup peanut butter chips
Instructions
- 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 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.
- Mix in eggs, vanilla and peanut butter.
- On low speed, slowly add in your flour mixture just until it is incorporated into the batter.
- 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 remaining toppings, ½ cup chopped pretzels, ¼ cup chocolate chips and ½ cup peanut butter chips.
- Sprinkle mixture over top of batter.
- Bake for about 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool before cutting into squares.
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Nutrition
Calories: 505kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 62mg | Sodium: 405mg | Potassium: 120mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 435IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 52mg | Iron: 2.3mg
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Originally published: February 2012
Updated & republished: October 2020
Made the Chubby Hubby Bars they loved them!
I’m planning on baking these soon. Would I need to change anything if I wanted to do them as cookies instead of bars?
Making them again for my brothers. The bars disappeared really fast!
Ha! You are such a sweet sister!! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment!
FYI - your PDF version is missing the chocolate chips from the ingredient list..
You are so right! Thank you for catching that!
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! 🙂
I made these last weekend. Very tasty and a big hit at our party!
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!
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.
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!
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 🙂
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....
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
Going to make these for our next get together! Thanks so much Brandie!
yum!!!
Looks really tasty, I love the sweet and salty factor. Congrats on the top 9 🙂
Sandra..LOLz. You sound like me! Hope you like them!
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!
These look so good! They also reminds me of those Take 5 candy bars. They are my favorite!
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
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.
Anonymous, thank you for catching that. It should say 1/2 cup, not 1/4 cup. 🙂
Where does the other 1/4c of peanut butter chips go?
Whoa mama!! This is devine! Would it be bad if I topped it with Chubby Hubby ice cream too! LOL!!
I love everything about this, save the pretzels. Mmmm, that would make for a chubby hubby!
Seriously yummy! Those would make a chubbier me 🙂
Oh my gosh!
I'll be pinning this for SURE!
I love your recipes and your blog!
Made these. Love them.
I need to make these!!!!
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!
Oh man I am sure that these are soooo addicting!
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. 🙂
Ohhhhh.... this looks like my kind of dessert!