Peanut Fritos Bars

by Sabrina Snyder

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16 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Chill 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
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Peanut Fritos Bars are sweet, salty, creamy, and satisfyingly crunchy, packed into easy, no-bake dessert squares! Try for your next party!

This easy Bar Recipe is great to toss together for a last-minute treat that is made with just a handful of ingredients that you can mix and form into bars quickly. They’re similar to my Peanut Butter Cornflake Bars, but with Frito Corn Chips for a more salty treat. 

Sabrina’s Peanut Fritos Bars Recipe

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If you love how easily Rice Krispies Treats come together, these bars are just as simple, but with a salty peanut butter twist. Instead of marshmallows, they’re made with a sugary peanut butter coating. The cereal is also replaced with Fritos corn chips for an unexpected take on classic no-bake bars. 

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Peanut Fritos Bars Recipe

Peanut Fritos Bars are sweet, salty, creamy, and satisfyingly crunchy, packed into easy, no-bake dessert squares! Try for your next party!
Yield 16 Servings
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
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Ingredients
 

  • 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 9 1/4 ounces Fritos corn chips
  • 1/2 cup salted peanuts , roughly chopped

Instructions

  • Spray a 9×13 pan with vegetable oil spray.
  • To a medium saucepan add the peanut butter, corn syrup, and sugar on medium heat.
  • Mix well until just dissolved, then remove from heat.
  • In a large bowl mix Fritos, salted peanuts, and peanut butter mixture.
  • Gently press mixture into baking pan.
  • Cool completely, about two hours, before slicing.

Nutrition

Calories: 362kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 233mg | Potassium: 215mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 31g | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg

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About this Recipe

No-bake dessert recipes like this one are great to pull out when you have a lot of family or friends to feed. Prep the peanut butter mixture in a matter of minutes, then just mix it with the corn chips and peanuts to finish. The combination of salty and sweet ingredients makes it an absolutely irresistible snack. The corn syrup and sugar in the peanut butter mixture bring just enough sweetness to the chips and peanuts for the perfect balance of flavors in these crunchy bars. As long as you set aside enough time for the bars to cool, it’s one of the easiest recipes ever!

How to Store

  • Serve: Make sure to let the Bars chill completely before slicing them into squares and serving. 
  • Store: Cover the dish in plastic wrap or transfer the squares to an airtight container to keep in the fridge for up to 1 week. 
  • Freeze: You can also put the squares in a freezer bag or another airtight container to store in the freezer for up to 6 months. They’ll keep best with the bars separated by parchment paper so that they don’t freeze together.

Ideas to Serve

You can serve up the delicious treat for an after-school snack, or wrap a square in plastic wrap to pack in a lunch. The peanuts and peanut butter in the recipe also pack the Frito Bars with protein and make them very filling. So they’re the perfect snack to keep you full until dinner or even take with you on a hike for energy. 

Variations

  • Chocolate chips: For some chocolate flavor in the Frito Bars, try mixing chocolate chips in with the Fritos and peanut mixture. Milk chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, or dark chocolate chips would all taste amazing. 
  • Chocolate drizzle: If you’re a lover of chocolate, another way to make these bars perfect is with a chocolate drizzle. Put the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl and melt them in 30-second increments. Mix the chocolate until creamy, then drizzle it over the finished recipe. Let it sit before serving.
  • Cereal Bars: Instead of Fritos, you can try replacing the Frito chips with dry cereal like cornflakes, Rice Krispies, or Cheerios. This will take away some of the salty flavors and make the sweeter cereal bars sweeter. 
  • Mix-ins: There are plenty of delicious mix-ins that you can try in this recipe. M&M’s, Reese’s Pieces, or mini Reese’s would be great candies to try out. You could also try different kinds of nuts like pecans, walnuts, or almonds. 

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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  1. These look like the perfect game-day snack! You mentioned adding M&M’s or chocolate chips in the variations and I had a question: should I wait for the peanut butter mixture to cool slightly before folding those in so they don’t melt completely, or do you prefer them a little melted?

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