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 have been following your blog for awhile now and I love most of your recipes, but I have to say, these are BRILLIANT! We’ve (my kiddos and myself) have tried several variations (peanut butter, macaroon, hot cocoa) and love them! I was inspired to try them with nutella and that was yummy, too! Thanks for your awesome blog!
Oh my gosh. I just discovered your website a couple of days ago and just tried making these! I am IN LOVE! Who would have thought a few simple ingredients could taste so incredibly decadent and (dare I say it!) unhealthy!
Just made the sex bombs, and while they didnt turn out as pretty as yours ( I was impatient) they taste like friggin reeses peanut butter cups! OMG, thank you for coming up with such inventive recipes, it really saves my body from torture when I’m eating clean!
I’ve been in a major dessert making mood lately and have been trying out quite a few of your recipes. I’ve been eating Blondie Cookie Dough by the spoonful all week! I just made a batch of babies and they are delish. I went for the chocolate peanut butter baby version and made them into balls. They definitely taste better than a Larabar! I see myself making many different versions of these. The nut to date ratio is perfect. I have a minor Larabar addiction so I’m thrilled to find this recipe. I LOVE your blog 🙂 Thanks so much! ~Leslie
Aww thank YOU for such a sweet comment!
i think i can make these
YUM! I made these with 2 T cocoa powder and 1 oz unsweetened chocolate. They are soooo good! Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
Hi Katie,
I got the ingredients to make these but I’m wondering about the addition of chocolate… you say that cocoa powder or chocolate chips can be added to make it chocolatey, but how do you think it would turn out with hot chocolate mix?
Thanks for all your awesome recipes. 🙂
I think that sounds awesome!!!
I tried it out with hot chocolate powder. It worked really well and tasted delicious!
Hi Katie!
I came across your blog ages ago but lost the link, and came across it again recently and I just wanted to say… I’m in love. I’m not vegan nor is anyone in my family, but I love your recipes! I’ve always been pretty open-minded about what kind of recipes I make so it wasn’t too hard to win me over, but I’ve actually gotten my father, who is definitely harder to persuade to try vegan/more “unusual” ways, to love your blog too. I’ve already made the deep dish cookie pie to great success (making it again this weekend), and I just made these chocolate peanut butter balls and they’re just… amazing. I haven’t yet decided whether I like them more warm or cold (I know, serious business) but either way they’re soooo good. And the fact I’ve converted my dad as well is just more proof. 😉 (He’s actually willing to go out and buy tofu for the chocolate fudge pie! Big deal considering tofu is not something often seen in this household…)
Anyway, just wanted to say thank you! I’ve already started using the voluminous oatmeal every day (admittedly it doesn’t work as well for me as it does for you – for some reason it’s still somewhat liquidy in the morning – but it’s still tasty and more filling than any other breakfast I typically eat!) and I’ve bookmarked plenty of other recipes I intend to try soon. 🙂
Aww, Lena, your comment meant SO much to me!
And lol about the tofu… that pie is actually how I got one of my ex-boyfriends to finally stop dissing tofu. He tried the pie and said it was awesome… then I told him it had tofu. He refused to believe me. 😉
I just made these for the first time. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I LOVE them and they are so easy. I so appreciate your sharing your love of baking and doing healthily so people like me can make what you create and share it with my friends and family. THANK YOU!!!
Awww you are so welcome!
Just made these- soooooo good!!!!
I also just made these and wanted to tell you they are amazing!! I was going to make the samoa version, but realized too late that I didn’t have coconut on hand. But these were perfect because I am a choco-peanut fanatic! Good job on these awesome recipes. I can’t wait to try new varieties.
I decided to make these and cover them in coconut – how much cocoa powder should I use?
Depends on how chocolatey you want them to be lol. Just keep taste testing til you get the dough to your liking :).
OMG! Just made these…amazing. I also threw in a few T’s of oatmeal. PB Oatmeal cookies?! Soooo goood. 😉
mmm I’ve had these 2 times now. They are so good! I added a little stevia though, b/c I have a major sweet tooth. 🙂
Another hit! used PB and added walnuts and 2 t of cocoa powder yummy they are just what I wanted! 🙂
continued thanks Katie!
I just sold both kids on these!!! Thank you!!!! We are trying to ditch sugar and starch, and my kids are programmed for an after dinner treat. They just snarfed these, and how EASY they were to make! Both begged for seconds and for them to appear in lunches tomorrow! I am thrilled!!