No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites

Name: 1950’s No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter; 1/2 cup light corn syrup; 1/3 cup non-fat dry milk powder; 1/3 cup sifted powdered sugar; 1/4 finely crushed graham cracker crumbs

Dec 1, 2016(updated Jun 16, 2020)

By Michelle Weiner

These 1950's inspired No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites are easy to make and full of peanut buttery goodness. Great for a last minute dessert.

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Prep Time 40 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

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1950's Inspired No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites - These are so peanut buttery, easy to make, and delicious!

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Chewy, peanut buttery, and easy? Yes, please! Without much effort, you can whip up these No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites.

BURNT COOKIES & THE PARTY IS STARTING

It’s the 1950’s, and you are hosting an open house for the holidays. In an hour, all of your friends will be joyfully crowding your little place, which is decorated to the tee with tinsel. You are the perfect host, drinks are on ice, mistletoe is hanging in a few key spots, and you have cookies in the oven.

Oh no, the cookies…you forgot about them while you were getting dolled up. You run to the oven and yup…they are scorched; blackened to a crisp with no return. The neighbor’s dog would turn his nose up to them.

So what are you to do? The cookies are to be the centerpiece dessert. Being the ever prepared lady you are, you don’t worry one bit. The quick, easy, no-bake recipe up your sleeve, is sure to be a hit.

You open up “Fancy Cookies, Festive Candies: Delicious Goodies for Giving,” and thanks to the magic of Karo Syrup and peanut butter, your party goes off without a hitch.

Okay, obviously I’m not a time traveler. I have no idea if this situation really happened, but doesn’t it seem totally relatable? I know I’ve left things in the oven too long while getting ready for a party…and I (basically) cook for a living!

SAVE THE DAY WITH A NO-BAKE RECIPE

We are all so busy trying to do a million things while also being the perfect host. Things can definitely fall thru the cracks. That’s why no-bake recipes are fantastic for parties.

These No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites are insanely easy. Only five ingredients, and no cooking involved…just a little elbow grease when mixing the dough together. Not only are they easy to make, they are delicious.

You know how wonderful it is to eat spoonfuls of peanut butter out of the jar while standing in the light of the refrigerator at midnight? (Yes, right? Good, I knew I couldn’t be the only person!) This recipe evokes those same magical feelings of eating spoonfuls of peanut butter in the privacy of your home, but you can eat them around your friends, during the day, and not be judged. I promise.

ALWAYS MORE PEANUT BUTTER, ALWAYS

This easy No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites recipe is inspired by a recipe for Peanut Butter Kisses published in the 1956 recipe pamphlet “Fancy Cookies, Festive Candies: Delicious Goodies for Giving.” My Simple Rich Refrigerator Fudge recipe also comes from this pamphlet, and most of the recipes included in it are very easy, and, you guessed it, make great gifts. The only catch is the pamphlet promotes Mazola Corn Oil and Karo Syrup, so every recipe has one or the other.

After testing the original Peanut Butter Kisses recipe, I found the dough to be pretty stiff, and not enough peanut butter flavor. As usual, I changed the ratios for this version a bit. Now my No-Bake Peanut Butter Bites are perfectly peanut buttery. I also added a coating of finely crushed graham crackers, just for funsies.

What do you think about these little bites of peanut buttery goodness? I’d love to hear your thoughts below in the comments!