Nutella Bars

If you’re going to break all those New Year’s resolutions for Valentine’s day, you should definitely do it while eating Nutella Peanut Bars. Last week we celebrated National Nutella Day all week long.  We remade our favorite homemade nutella, ate nutella and challah for breakfast, enjoyed nutella and strawberries for snacks, and we earmarked this amazing nutella-based sweet from Country Momma Cooks to bake for Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s Day was the only holiday for which Mom didn’t seem to feel the need to bake or cook.  Like most everyone else, she’d pick up her Hallmark cards for us us and a big bag of conversation hearts and we’d spend the night together professing our love for each other (or at least that’s how I remember it.)

Desserts containing generous portions of Nutella combined with sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter chips are not appropriate for anyone without a very prominent  sweet tooth.  These bars are sinfully sweet, so sweet you might only be able to eat just one, especially if they’re still warm from the oven.  They’re simple to make, only requiring 10 minutes prep time and a total of 20 minutes baking time.   Walk into a party with these sweets and you’ll definitely garner attention and get credit for baking something “different” – a nice diversion from the over-served brownies.

I’ve baked these bars twice in two days.

Base layer dough with pudding mix

Layer 2: Nutella and peanut butter chips

Finished baking

The original recipe calls for banana pudding mix to be added to the “cookie” part of the bar.  While an interesting twist, I’d recommend using vanilla pudding mix to appeal to more people.  I’d also reduce the amount of condensed milk from one 1 can to 1/2 a can to reduce some of the overwhelming sweetness.

The bars are just as good soft and goey, fresh from the oven as they are having been frozen and hardened or hours.  It’s a matter of personal preference.  We opted for the frozen version since the nutella tends to melt very quickly at room temperature.

Just remember to cut your bars into very small pieces so you can mentally prolong your enjoyment.  My kids ate three to four pieces in one sitting alone.

You’ll be amazed at how quickly these will get devoured!

 

Comments

  1. We love Nutella! Thanks for linking up to Strut Your Stuff Saturday!! We hope you come back next week!! -The Sisters

  2. Hi Shari,
    I was assigned your blog for today’s #SRC reveal and I must say, I fell in love with your blog AND this recipe for Nutella bars! Nice to meet you through the secret recipe club!

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