These healthy treats taste like eating peanut butter cookie dough!
(Above, chocolate peanut butter babies)
Peanut Butter Babies
(Makes 120 grams, which is a tiny bit more than the size of two Larabars)
- 1/4 cup roasted, salted peanuts (30g) (I use roasted-unsalted, and I add about 1/8 tsp plus 1/16th tsp salt.)
- scant 2/3c dates (80g) (I use SunMaid, because they’re super-soft.)
- 1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract
- Optional: chocolate chips or cocoa powder
Blend the ingredients in your food processor (I used a Magic Bullet short cup). Smush into bars, roll into balls, or use cookie cutters! These peanut butter fudge baby bars taste divine warmed up a little in the microwave.  Oh who am I kidding? They taste divine ANY way you choose to eat them.
Pb’s brothers and sisters:
- Add dried banana for Elvis Babies
- Dip in chocolate for Buckeye Babies
- Other dried fruit for Pb&J Babies
- Add chocolate chips or cocoa for Chocolate PB Babies
Click to see all of my Homemade Larabar Recipes.
I love this action Katie…wow soooo delish looking! I don’t cook (un-cook) with salted nuts very often b/c I have no idea why?! LOL but the PB cookie dough… you had me right there 🙂
I posted once when I first first started my blog about making homemade larabars. My ratio was 1/2c dates to 1/3 c nuts. So your ratio of 3 to 1 dates to nuts would just make things so much more chewy and delish!
Thanks for your touching email, I love you girl 🙂
Enjoy your night and thank you again…for everything 🙂
xoxoox
Oh hell Katie – you’re killing me with all this baby love. Must make almond butter babies. Yeah.
Considering how much I love cookie dough ice cream, this recipe sounds fab. Oh wait–I just got an amazing idea! How about Peanut Butter Babies mixed into some vegan IC?!
so delicious!! love all your ideas Katie! the options are endless with these little fudge babies! 🙂 and perfect for holloween, you should make scary shapes out of them 😉 haha
love you girly
xx
Eliza
I need, need, NEED a blender! As soon as I can get one, I’m definitely going to make some of these! Let’s see – December 22 isn’t too, too, too far away, is it?
You are speaking my language! So simple and delicious. Awesome, Katie!
I swear, your babies just keep getting better–ha ha! 🙂
Looks fantastic. Where do you find time to come up with all of this?
Can you say PB Cookie Larabar?! But cheaper and much more fresh! Katie you are brilliant!
Well, you know I’m down with PB! 🙂 Once I get back from Chicago, I’m totally making a batch!
AMAZINGGGGG they look sooo good!!
These might be my favorite babies yet!
Uh yeah, so if you have an extra of these lying around, I’d be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Hum, is this the secret recipe of the mysterious picture?
Guess #7
This fudge baby sounds best to me, but I think the first thing I would make in the vitamix would be some carrot ginger soup!
I’ve always been sucka for peanut butta so this fudge baby is tops for me. The first think I would make in the Vitamix is almond milk. None of my other blenders have been able to handle blending almonds.