These gooey Chubby Hubby Bars are inspired by Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby Ice Cream! Made with pretzels, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, caramel and more, thse delicious dessert bars are everything!
Chubby Hubby Bars Recipe
I am not a huge ice cream fan.
Don’t feel bad for me, I certainly get my sweets in a multitude of other ways.
But, one day last week while doing my weekly grocery shopping, I got seduced by the colorful pints of Ben & Jerry’s down the frozen food aisle. I generally try and avoid the ice cream section altogether…but this day I was feeling weak.
I stood and stared at the pints full of delicious concoctions…I am less intrigued by the ice cream itself, as I am by the add-in combinations.
Honestly, ice cream is just a vehicle for my cookie dough or Schweddy Ball consumption…I could take it or leave it ~ and normally I leave it. Yep, I am one of those who picks out all the goodies and leaves a half eaten pint-full of picked through vanilla. Luckily my husband is a vanilla-man, so he doesn’t mind.
While hypnotized by the shelves of delicious ice cream flavors my eyes stopped on “Chubby Hubby“. I decided the only option at that moment was to buy it. For research. It’s a thing, trust me.
So as soon as I got home after dinner, I decided to sit down and give this ice cream a fair chance. I mean how bad could vanilla ice cream with chocolate peanut butter pretzels, and fudge and peanut butter swirls be? Well, I will tell you…not bad. Not bad at all.
In fact I was so enamored by the pretzely, chocolatey goodness that I figured there must be a more efficient way of consuming them, without having to pick through the needless vanilla.
I bring you Chubby Hubby Bars. Full of all the salty sweetness you crave without the added ice cream calories. See? I’m really helping you out. I’m a giver.
I know I make lots and lots of bars. I thought about trying to make these in cookie-form, but I’m lazy. Bars are easy.
How to Make Chubby Hubby Bars
First make a simple cookie dough and add in some of these little gems…
Yep, the whole bag…minus like, 6 little cups. I think you’re supposed to eat those, you know, more research.
Then mix in some of these…
Then spread the batter into your trusty 9×13 pan.
Try not to eat too much of the dough. You might get a tummy ache…I mean, I hear that it’s possible…
After it’s baked you could stop there…but I think you should pour a little caramel on top.
Then spread some melted chocolate on top of that.
Balls out.
When the chocolate is set up you can share, if you’re feeling generous. Told you I was a giver.
Chubby Hubby Bars
- Prep Time: 40 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Yield: About 36 bars 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These gooey Chubby Hubby Bars are inspired by Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby Ice Cream! Made with pretzels, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, caramel and more, thse delicious dessert bars are everything!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, room temp
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
- 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pretzels
- 1 (8oz) bag of Reese’s Mini cups (or 2 cups coarsely chopped full sized Reese’s)
- 1 (14 oz) bag of caramels, unwrapped
- 2 Tbsp water
- 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Spray a 9×13 pan lightly with cooking spray.
- Beat together your butter and sugars until light and fluffy, approx 1 min.
- Add eggs and vanilla, mix until incorporated.
- On low speed add in your salt, baking soda and flour, mixing until just combined.
- Slowly add in your Reeses and Pretzels, mixing until evenly distributed.
- Spread in your prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes.
- Let cool completely. Approx 30 minutes to an hour.
- When cooled, melt your caramels and 2 Tbsp water in a microwave safe bowl stirring every minute until melted.
- Pour over your bars.
- Chill in fridge for 15 minutes to set caramel.
- Melt your chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave and spread over caramel.
- Put back in the fridge for at least 30 minutes or until chocolate is set.
- Cut into squares when ready to serve.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 1205
- Sugar: 39.4 g
- Sodium: 3019.5 mg
- Fat: 22 g
- Carbohydrates: 230.2 g
- Protein: 27 g
- Cholesterol: 37 mg
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Shut The Front Door!! These look Fabulous!!!! Must try them soon!
I just made these and my caramel is hard…hard to cut through and hard to bite… Does that mean I over warmed it up? Oh no, I forgot the 1 tbsp of water… would that do it? bummer… I made 2 batches and they’re both like that…
Yes, without the water the caramel is going to get really chewy
Today, I separated the caramel and chocolate off the bars, put the cookie mix in my kitchenaid and re-melted the caramel and used the chocolate to dip them in – as cake balls. So, if you forget to add water to the mix, you can always make cake balls 🙂
had these at a party tonight. is it a bad thing that I am hiding the three I brought home from my husband and boys? We had our bars with a side scoop of ice cream. So if the actuall ice cream Chubby Bubby is anythign like this was, I may have a new favorite ice cream.
Not bad at al!!!
Had these at a party tonight. is it a bad thing that I am hiding the 3 I brought home from my husband and kids. Now I must say, We had these bars with a scoop of ice cream and if the actual ice cream Chubby Hubby is anything like the dish I had, I have a new favorite ice cream!
cannot wait to try these bars. love your site; excellent design and photos!
If these taste half as good as they look their could be a wedding ceremony. I am making them tonight. Be on the look out for your wedding invite. I am doing a no sugar thing until thanksgiving – except a treat every 2 weeks. This will be my special treat. Whoa.
Made these today, the caramel made them way too chewy, took away from the rest of the bar 🙁 any way around this?
Maybe add a little more water to the caramel when you are melting it…I used kraft caramels…they weren’t chewy at all when melted with a bit of water. Maybe give that a try?
My favorite Ben and Jerry’s flavor! Pinning and stumbling this insanity.
How much flour is in the recipe? I’m mid-way and can’t seem to find that…
There are 2 1/2 cups of flour, it’s listed as the first ingredient in the recipe 🙂
Can you reprint the last 1/2 of the instructions? They are covered by the buttons on the bottom of the page. Thanks, I really want to make these!!
On the printable recipe?