Chocolate Peanut Butter Stacks

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Ritz Cookies — 🎄❤️💚 If you need a ridiculously easy, no-bake cookie recipe for a party, holiday cookie exchange, or just have a spur of the moment craving for chocolate and peanut butter, these Ritz cookies are perfect!

a stack of two ritz cracker cookies. the top cookie has a bite missing.

Chocolate-Dipped Ritz Cookies

If you need a ridiculously easy, no-bake dessert for a party, holiday cookie exchange, or just have a spur of the moment craving for chocolate and peanut butter — which happens quite often to me — this is a perfect recipe.

What I love about these little cookie — or cracker — stacks is that they’re salty and sweet, crunchy from the crackers yet creamy from the peanut butter, and gooey from marshmallow creme.

Every awesome dessert quality has been rolled up into one little bite-sized bundle.

They’re incredibly addictive. Just ask my daughter who couldn’t stop eating them and told me this is one of the ‘best things I’ve ever made’.

holiday ritz cookies on a white platter

Ingredients for Ritz Cookies 

To make these Ritz cracker Christmas cookies, you’ll need: 

  • Ritz crackers
  • Creamy peanut butter
  • Marshmallow creme
  • Chocolate 
  • Sprinkles 

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

close up of chocolate covered ritz cookies topped with holiday sprinkles

How to Make Ritz Cracker Cookies 

This is such an easy no-bake Christmas cookie to make! Here are the basic steps to making the Ritz cracker peanut butter cookies:

  1. Mix together the peanut butter and marshmallow creme, then spread over 24 Ritz crackers. 
  2. Top with remaining Ritz crackers to make a sandwich.
  3. Dip each Ritz stack in melted chocolate, top with sprinkles, and let cool. 

Tip for Filling the Cookies

Don’t add too much of the peanut butter-marshmallow filling or it will ooze out of the sides and it makes dipping a little tricker and they don’t look as neat when they’re finished.

Recipe FAQs

What Type of Chocolate Should I Use? 

I use Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Bars for the chocolate coating because it melts beautifully and is well-priced. Specifically I melt half of the 72% and half of the ‘dark’. If you can’t find it in your area, look for chocolate candy melts or try buying chocolate in bulk bins that looks like small discs.

As a last resort, use semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips because chocolate chips have stabilizers in them cause the chocolate chips to both resist melting and to set up overly quickly during the dipping process.

How Long do these Cookies Last? 

The Ritz cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 2 weeks, in the fridge for up to 1 month, or in the freezer for at least 4 months. I store them in the fridge because it’s warm in San Diego and they get a bit too soft at room temperature.

Can I use different sprinkles?

Of course! If you’re not making them for Christmas, you can easily omit the red and green sprinkles. Or use red and white for Valentine’s, pastel for Easter, and so forth.

Can I double this recipe?

Yes, you can easily scale the batch size up or down based on your needs.

Ritz Cookies (No-Bake Christmas Cookies) — If you need a ridiculously easy, no-bake dessert for a party, holiday cookie exchange, or just have a spur of the moment craving for chocolate and peanut butter, these Ritz cookies are perfect!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Stacks

By Averie Sunshine
🎄❤️💚 If you need a ridiculously easy, no-bake cookie recipe for a party, holiday cookie exchange, or just have a spur of the moment craving for chocolate and peanut butter, these Ritz cookies are perfect!
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Setting Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Servings: 24
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Ingredients  

  • 48 Ritz crackers or buttery golden round crackers
  • ½ cup creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup marshmallow creme
  • 1 pound chocolate, coarsely chopped and melted for dipping (see notes in blog post for chocolate recommendations)
  • holiday sprinkles, optional but recommended

Instructions 

  • Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
  • Lay 24 crackers on a baking sheet; set aside.
  • To a medium bowl, add the peanut butter, marshmallow creme, and stir to combine.
  • Evenly spread a thin (not paper thin, but not too thick either) layer of the peanut butter-marshmallow mixture on the 24 crackers on the baking sheet.
  • Top with the remaining 24 crackers, creating sandwiches; set aside.
  • To a medium microwave-safe bowl, add the chopped chocolate and heat on high power in 15 to 30 second bursts, stirring after each burst, until chocolate can be stirred smooth.
  • Dip each stack into the chocolate using one or two forks, allowing the excess to drip off. Place dipped stacks on baking sheet.
  • Optionally add sprinkles, to taste.
  • Place baking sheet in the fridge or freezer until chocolate has hardened before serving.

Notes

  • Stacks will keep airtight at room temp for up to 2 weeks, in the fridge for up to 1 month, or in the freezer for at least 4 months. I store them in the fridge because it’s warm in San Diego and they get a bit too soft at room temp.
  • Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.

Nutrition

Serving: 1, Calories: 173kcal, Carbohydrates: 19g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 4g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 4mg, Sodium: 102mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 12g

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Originally posted November 25, 2016 and reposted December 2, 2020 with updated text. 

4.45 from 102 votes (95 ratings without comment)

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  1. 5 stars
    Have made and eaten these for years, many years! The combinations are limitless! Raspberry Jam n peanut butter is a fave! People never know what to expect when taking that first bite! White chocolate is great too!!

    1. Thanks for the 5 star review, CJ, and I’m glad this is a favorite for you for years! Your variations sound fun and great!

    1. Yes there is BUT if you aren’t planning on gifting these, my idea is who cares because they still will taste great despite the looks.

  2. With the Ritz pb & chocolate cookies, is butter not needed? It’s not posted in the ingredients list or description but I believe it was in the lil video clip so just wanted to confirm. Awesome group of recipes that I’m looking forward to trying some out. Thanks!

    1. No it’s not needed. Perhaps you saw the marshmallow creme but there’s no butter. Recipe is perfect as written in the recipe card area.