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vegan peanut butter bars
5 from 3 votes

Easy Vegan Peanut Butter Bars

Moist, peanut buttery, and chocolately, you’d never guess these decadent peanut butter bars are a vegan one-bowl recipe!
Prep Time12 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Total Time52 minutes
Servings: 5
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Ingredients

For the wet ingredients:

  • 1 cup peanut butter, use smooth, regular peanut butter, not chunky or natural
  • ⅓ cup canola oil
  • ½ cup almond milk
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 flaxseed egg (2 Tbsp flaxseed meal + 3 Tbsp water)

For the dry ingredients:

  • 1 ¼ cup flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ tsp baking soda
  • 8 oz chocolate, roughly chopped

Instructions

Preheat the oven

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. If you haven’t already, now is a good time to chop the chocolate.

Make the flaxseed “egg”

  • In a small bowl, whisk together the flaxseed meal and water. Let sit for about five minutes, until a thick, “goopy” mixture forms. Flaxseed egg is done.

Mix the wet ingredients

  • In a large mixing bowl, add the peanut butter, oil, milk, sugar, vanilla, and flaxseed egg. Whisk vigorously until all the ingredients have come together, and a thick mixture forms.

Add the dry ingredients

  • Now add the flour, salt, and baking soda to the mixing bowl. Mix until the dry ingredients are mostly incorporated, then add the chopped chocolate to the bowl. Mix until the chocolate is evenly distributed, and the dry ingredients are incorporated. Be careful not to overmix!

Bake the peanut butter bars

  • Grease a 9 inch round metal cake pan, and pour the batter into the pan.
  • The batter is thick, so use an offset spatula to help spread the batter out evenly into the dish.
  • Bake the bars at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, until the top is set and a toothpick inserted comes out mostly clean.
  • Let the bars cool for AT LEAST 45 minutes before serving. The bars need time to set. Cutting them too early will ruin the crumb.

Serve and enjoy!

  • Serve with a glass of almond milk and enjoy!

Notes

These peanut butter bars are vegan.
These peanut butter bars can be made gluten-free by substituting a gluten-free flour blend, like Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour, for the flour in the recipe.  If you use a gluten-free flour, check on the bars after baking for 40 minutes.  If the top is still not set, bake the bars for an additional 5 minutes.
Let the bars cool for AT LEAST 45 minutes before serving. The bars need time to set. Cutting them too early will ruin the crumb.