Tiger Butter
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My 3-ingredient easy tiger butter recipe is a decadently rich fudge snack made from a combination of peanut butter, chocolate, and white chocolate.
Have you ever heard of tiger butter before? If not, you are in for a treat! It’s a quick and easy homemade snack that’s made for chocolate lovers and fans of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Personally, my kids BEG for this tiger butter recipe every year around the holidays. Fortunately, this recipe is as easy as they come.
Before we start cooking, let’s answer the most important question: is it a bark or a fudge? Well, tiger butter is considered a fudge by some and a bark by others. It actually fits into both categories really well so you decide how you want to classify it. Tiger bark isn’t quite as sweet as regular bark and the blend of peanut butter and chocolate creates a rich and creamy fudge-like texture my whole family loves.
You can make this for gifts in easily less than five minutes, too, so it’s great for this time of year. All you need is 3 ingredients: white chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, and smooth peanut butter. The instructions are as simple as melting the chocolate, combining the white chocolate and peanut butter, and adding the melted chocolate on top. Then you stir it to make a marble pattern that resembles tiger stripes.
Once the tiger butter has chilled in the fridge, it’s time to enjoy it! How easy is that? I hope you try this super quick chocolate treat soon.
Recipe Ingredients
- Vanilla almond bark or white chocolate chips
- Smooth peanut butter
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
How to Make Tiger Butter
Oh! Did I mention you’re going to need a rimmed baking sheet lined with waxed paper?
Place white chocolate chips into a large bowl.
If using almond bark, breaking it up is optional and dependent on my mood. Sometimes I just throw the whole thing in there. It’s gonna melt either way so just do whatever cranks your tractor.
Place the bowl in the microwave for about one minute. Stir well.
Microwave at 30 to 45-second intervals, stirring after each, until the chocolate is melted and smooth.
Add in peanut butter.
Stir until peanut butter is melted and well blended.
Spread onto the waxed paper-lined baking sheet.
Place chocolate chips in a small bowl and melt them the same way you did the white chocolate.
Drop dollops of melted chocolate onto your peanut butter mixture.
Kinda swirl it a little bit with a butter knife until it looks good from ten yards on a galloping horse.
Place it in the refrigerator to harden or, if you’re one of those patient people I’ve heard folks speak of in legends, allow it to sit out on your countertop at room temperature until fully hardened.
If it’s cold where you live, you can also just put it outside 😉.
Once it’s hardened, break the tiger bark into pieces and store it in an airtight container.
ENJOY!
Storage
- Store tiger butter in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- This also freezes really well for up to 3 months. Just let it thaw in the fridge before serving.
Recipe Notes
- Almond bark doesn’t have any nuts in it, that is just a generic name for a white candy coating that resembles chocolate and is commonly used in candy making. I say this because I always get several folks asking each year and I like to try to answer questions before folks have to ask them!
- But remember you can use vanilla almond bark, white chocolate morsels, white baking chocolate, or vanilla chips.
- As for the semi-sweet chocolate, you can swap it for milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate. You can even use chocolate chunks or a chocolate block that’s broken up. Whatever works for you.
- If you have a nut allergy in your family, peanut butter is going to be a problem, of course. I suggest trying SunButter, which is a substitute that my friend HodgePodge Mom uses a lot. But another suggestion in the comments is cookie butter.
- You can use crunchy peanut butter, but I prefer the smooth consistency of creamy peanut butter. It’s just easier to mix together. I also don’t recommend using natural peanut butter as the oil separation is likely to affect the fudge’s texture.
- If you don’t have any parchment paper or waxed paper, you can also use aluminum foil that’s been greased with cooking spray. The chocolate just tends to stick to the baking dish, so that extra layer is needed.
Recipe FAQs
What is tiger butter made of?
Tiger butter (also known as tiger butter bark or tiger butter fudge) is made when you combine smooth peanut butter, semi-sweet chocolate, and white chocolate chips. When the ingredients are melted and stirred together, they make a marbled pattern that resembles tiger stripes.
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Ingredients
- 3 cups white chocolate chips or 24-ounces almond bark
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or waxed paper. Set aside
- In a large mixing bowl, place white chocolate chips or almond bark. Place the bowl in the microwave for about one minute. Stir well. Microwave at 30 to 45-second intervals, stirring after each, until it's melted and smooth.3 cups white chocolate chips
- Stir in peanut butter until melted and well blended.1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- Spread out onto the waxed paper-lined baking pan.
- Place chocolate chips in a small bowl and microwave at 30 to 45-second intervals, stirring after each, until smooth and melted.1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Drop dollops of chocolate onto the white chocolate mixture in the pan. Swirl with a butter knife to create a marbled look.
- Place the baking sheet in the refrigerator until hardened or allow it to harden completely at room temperature.
- Break into pieces and store in an airtight container.
Nutrition
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I used to make this when I worked at a famous chocolate store. It’s incredible. We used smooth peanut butter though. I will have to try it with chunky!
Google “Avalanche Bark”. We made that as well. It’s to die for!!
This may sound picky, but would it still work if I used real white chocolate instead of almond bark? Lol, and creamy peanut butter instead of chunky? I’m just wondering if the consistency would be different enough to cause a problem. I’d still like to have “bark” and not tiger glop.
I made this for the first time the week before Christmas for all of my daughter’s teachers/daycare teachers/anyone who takes care of my kid and they raved about it! It was cheap, easy and VERY decadent and yummy. Thanks!
I am so glad ot hear that everyone loved it!!
Just made the Tiger Butter. Turned out great! So easy and everyone in my family is going to love it. Also used the spiced pecan recipe and I can’t keep them for longer than a day. My husband keeps eating them up! Thanks for your continued geat recipes. Merry Christmas!
Just tried your recipe for Tiger Butter. It was so easy and was a great hit! Will be putting this in my “Tried and Great ” recipe folder. We are also going to do Christmas dinner a little different this year. It is going to be more on the old fashion farm type with baked ham , biscuits and milk gravy, and mashed potatoes etc. Merry Christmas to you and your family and God’s blessings on everyone around the world.