These Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies are the perfect combination of sweet and salty! Ritz crackers add a little something to it. All you need are 3 ingredients and some laughter!
Quick Ritz Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
These easy Ritz Peanut Butter Cookies are a classic in our family. They are prepared really quick, and a real nice treat. And they are so easy to make that, actually, your kids can make them for YOU!
The chocolate cookies with a salty cracker base and aromatic peanut butter filling are perfect small bites. They are the perfect combination of sweet and salty to satisfy our cravings!
I love being in the kitchen with my Little Cup, especially when there is no baking required!
How to Make Peanut butter and Chocolate Cookies
It is as easy as it can get. Bring some peanut butter on the Ritz crackers. No need to be neat about it. Next, place them in the freezer for 15 minutes while you lick the peanut butter off the knife and fingertips. 😉
Then melt chocolate in a sauce pan. Flip the crackers with the peanut butter topping upside down into the melted chocolate. Carefully lift out and place it on the wax paper to harden.
This should take just a minute. This is perfect for the kiddos to do – their fingers will get covered in chocolate and they’ll love it!
Kitchen Tools Used
- Corningware bowls – to melt my chocolates. They are the right height and width to dip pops and truffles – and cookies. They also come with a lid so you can cover it up and keep the leftover chocolate for another project.
- Cookie Sheet with Waxed Paper – Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper to keep your workspace clean. Place the dipped cookies onto the cookie sheet and let them dry completely before stacking.
Once all the cookies are covered in chocolate, you’re done! Now go wash the kid’s hands and put these cookies on a plate to enjoy. That’s my favorite way to enjoy them is to put them in a baggie and place them in the freezer!
Here’s a few more Peanut Butter Recipes you might enjoy:
Peanut Butter Pudding Pie
Peanut Butter Brownies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Mini Cupcakes
Ritz Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
Quick! Easy! Sweet and Salty! These Ritz Peanut Butter no-bake cookies are the perfect cookies to whip up in a jiffy!
Ingredients
- 1 bag chocolate chips
- Peanut Butter of your choice
- 1 sleeve Ritz Crackers
- Optional - peanut chips, chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Cover the Ritz cracker in peanut butter, place them on a cookie sheet and place them into the fridge. Melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl with a wide top.
- Dip the peanut butter side of the cracker into the chocolate. Carefully lift out of the chocolate and place onto a cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
- Once the chocolate is dry, store in an airtight container in the fridge.
Notes
For the peanut butter I suggest NOT using an "natural" spread where the oil separates from the peanut butter. You'll end up with ooze marks from the leaking oils and it could make the cracker soggy.
I store my finished cookies in the freezer and enjoy them frozen too!
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could you substitute chocolate chips for the candy melts?.. I have chips on hand.
Sharon, You can use melted chocolate chips. Place them in the fridge to re-harden.
What a great idea! So simple yet so tasty. I will use gluten free crackers and give this a try!
This can totally be made Gluten Free. Enjoy!
I wonder if there is a way to make this into a bar cookie. Have to make two hundred cookies for hubby to take to work this year. Looking for every short cut I can find. Thanks for the great idea.
Not sure how you might convert it. There are a lot of cookie bar ideas on the internet or you can just make your favorite cookie recipe, press the entire thing into a 9×13 baking dish and bake it. Then cut it into bars instead of cookies. Depending on hoe you cut them, you won’t get as many bars as you do cookies. Good luck with the baking!
@Susie, maybe peanut butter cookie crust, melted chocolate on top then crumbled ritz on top.
I used to make cookies similar to these with my grandma, we would make peanut butter sandwiches and immerse them completely with melted chocolate!
These are wonderful double dunked. Try dipping them in reeves peanut butter chips melted first. Or Carmel chips. Dry then dunk again in chocolate. Soooo good.
Sounds like an awesome addition! Thanks for the tips!
This sounds like such a great mix of sweet and salty! Yum!
I’m the recipe for the PB Ritz crackers,is the bottom left plain? Can I use Milk chocolate chips.? The cookies look great. Thank you.
You can use milk chocolate, no problem. I’m not sure which image you’re referring to for the “plain” cookie. You don’t have to add any peanuts or sprinkles to them. My grandmother didn’t. I did just to make the cookies more photogenic.
I don’t like to bake but I love to eat LOL I guess that’s why I don’t bake until now I found you : ) I am going to shock my family and friends.
You have the best recipes and most are easy, I’ll keep you up to date on what I make.
Thank you so much for posting these.
Well then, these cookies are for YOU!! I hope that you enjoy them as much as we do! Thanks so much for visiting and saying HI!
What brand of peanut butter do u use.
For these cookies, any processed peanut butter will do. I like Peter Pan… Don’t use a natural PB because the consistency just isn’t the creamiest and the oil will seep into the cracker and make them gross.