Healthy Butterfingers
Make your own crispety, crunchety, chocolate peanut butter homemade healthy Butterfingers, with gluten free and vegan options and just 5 ingredients!
Servings: 16 bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter or allergy friendly nut or seed butter (240g)
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup or honey (80g) (For keto, try these Keto Candy Bars)
- 1 1/2 tbsp blackstrap molasses or additional maple syrup (22g)
- 1 1/2 cups flake cereal (such as bran flakes or gluten free corn flakes)
- 1/8 tsp salt (increase to 1/4 tsp if using unsalted nut butter)
- 3 oz chocolate chips or sugar free chocolate chips (increase to 9 oz if you wish to coat the entire bar in chocolate)
Instructions
- 1. Let peanut butter sit out until easy to stir. Alternatively, warm it in a saucepan on the stove top with the maple syrup and molasses.
- 2. Stir the softened nut butter, sweeteners, salt, and cereal in a large measuring cup or saucepan. Crush the cereal with a fork or heavy spatula, and keep stirring until all cereal is evenly coated.
- 3. Transfer the mixture to an 8 inch square pan lined with parchment paper. Smooth it down to fill the whole pan, or make thicker bars by only filling up half of the pan. Press down very firmly.
- 4. Place the pan of healthy Butterfingers in the freezer to harden.
- 5. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave or a double boiler. Pour the melted chocolate over the frozen Butterfingers or dip each bar in chocolate.
- 6. Freeze again to set the chocolate shell. If cutting into bars, remove from the freezer when the chocolate is still a little soft to prevent cracking. Slice into bars.
- 7. Store any leftovers tightly covered in the refrigerator for up to two weeks on in the freezer for up to three months.
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Notes
Readers also love copycat Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs or Homemade Bounty Bars.
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 6.6g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 50mg | Potassium: 204mg | Fiber: 2.6g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 12IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 2mg