Get your crunch on with these Salted Nut Bars. There is a delicious cake bottom, marshmallows in the middle, and then topped with peanuts and chocolate. A little bit of everything for one great dessert.

Making Salted Nut Bars

Salted Nut Bars are a layered dessert, so let’s start from the bottom. In a 13 x 9 dish, press the cake mixture into the pan and bake for about 11 minutes. In the meantime, mix the peanuts together with the Rice Krispies and start melting the chocolate chip mixture on the stove. Take the cake out of the oven and cover with the mini marshmallows. The dish goes back into the oven until the marshmallows puff up, about 3 minutes.

Next, pour the chocolate chip mixture over the peanut mixture and mix thoroughly. Lastly, pour the peanut mixture on top of the marshmallows and you’re done!

After the Salted Nut Bars have cooled, cut them into bars. There you have it, Salted Nut Bars…they’ll satisfy any sweet or salty cravings, and they’re pretty easy to make.

Customize these dessert bars

Change up these bad-boys if you want to, here’s how. Keep them all peanutty by using peanut butter baking chips instead of the chocolate chips. Or hey, let’s swap out the yellow cake mix for a chocolate or vanilla cake mix. Use your favorite flavors or whatever you already have in the cupboard…beats having to go to the store again. LOL!

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Salted Nut Bars

A layered dessert bar using peanuts, yellow cake, and of course, chocolate.

Prep Time10

Cook Time12

Cooling time30

Total Time22

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: marshmallows, peanuts

Servings: servings

Calories: 335kcal

Author: Sweet Ordeal

Ingredients

1 yellow cake mix
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
3 cups miniature marshmallows
2 cups salted peanuts
2 cups Rice Krispies
12 oz. bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 13 x 9 baking pan.
Mix cake, 1/4 cup melted butter, and egg. Press into greased pan. Bake 10 - 12 minutes. Remove from oven.
Place marshmallows over cake and return to oven for approx. 3 minutes until marshmallows puff up.
In medium bowl, mix peanuts and Rice Krispies.
Melt baking chips with corn syrup and 1/2 cup butter. Add vanilla. Pour over nuts and Rice Krispies and stir. Spread over marshmallows.
Cool. Cut into bars when set. Keeps well in container in refrigerator or freezer. Don't refrigerate before cutting into bars, gets too stiff.

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Looking for more dessert ideas? Try my German Apple Cheesecake, Chocolate Banana Pudding Cake, or my Lemon Raspberry Cookie Cupcakes.

In the mean time, I hope you enjoy these Salted Nut Bars, they were one of my mom’s favorites. I’m actually reading the recipe in her hand writing — she was a great cook! Thanks Mom!

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