No-bake cookie butter bars are the perfect no-bake dessert for those with nut allergies. This amazing treat is nut and peanut-free! This easy recipe only needs 5 ingredients and will satisfy your sweet tooth!
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Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Cookie bars with that amazing cookie-cutter flavor!
- A delicious no-bake recipe for no-bake bars with NO Peanut Butter!!!!
Ingredient Notes
- Cookie Butter - Cookie Butter is also known as Biscoff spread or just speculoos cookie butter. It's made from speculoos cookies.
- Nilla Wafers - I use these instead of graham crackers because the graham crackers overpowered the flavor of the cookie butter.
- Butter - I used salted butter. If using unsalted butter, add ½ teaspoon salt to the cookie butter layer.
- Chocolate Chips - You can use either milk chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips.
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Step by Step Instructions
- Line a 9x13 baking dish or 9x13 baking sheet with parchment paper or wax paper to easily lift the entire dessert out of the pan for slicing.
- To prepare the cookie layer crush the Nilla Wafers into fine crumbs in a food processor. You can also crush them in a ziploc bag with a rolling pin.
- NOTE - An 11 oz box of Nilla Wafers will give you 2 ½ cups of crumbs.
- Measure the wafer crumbs and powdered sugar into a large mixing bowl and stir to mix. This could also be quickly mixed up with a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
- Add the smooth cookie butter and melted cup butter to the bowl.
- Mix very well.
- Press dough into the prepared pan in an even layer.
- Melt the chocolate carefully in the microwave in a small bowl for the chocolate layer and spread over the top of the bars.
- Chill for 1 ½ hours before lifting out of the pan, cutting and serving.
- Store leftover bars in the fridge in an airtight container.
Recipe FAQs
Cookie butter is a food paste made primarily from speculoos, cookie crumbs, fat, flour, and sugar. The ingredients are mixed until they become spreadable on a sandwich. In countries like Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, it is a common alternative to nut butter and chocolate spreads.
Nope! It does not! So this is a great choice for those allergic to nuts!
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No Bake Cookie Butter Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ½ Cups Nilla Wafer Crumbs
- 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 Cup Butter melted
- 1 ¼ Cups Cookie Butter
- 2 Cups Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- In a food processor, crush the nilla wafers into fine crumbs.
- Stir the nilla wafer crumbs and powdered sugar together.
- Melt the butter. Pour the melted butter and cookie butter into the crumbs and powdered sugar. Mix well until it all comes together in a big glob.
- Press into the bottom of a 9x13 pan. Â If you want to lift these out to cut them, then you will need to have lined the pan with wax paper or parchment.
- Melt the chocolate chips carefully in the microwave and spread the melted chocolate over the cookie butter bars.
- Refrigerate for 1 ½ hours.  Cut into small squares.  You should get 36-48 squares, depending on how small you cut them.
Notes
- An 11 oz. box of Nilla Wafer will give you between 2 ½ and 3 cups of fine crumbs.
- 1 ¼ Cups of Cookie Butter is the same as a 14 oz jar of cookie butter.
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Greg
Can't eat just one!!!