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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Recipe For Easy Chocolate Fudge
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
I so loved reading your posting. My husband and I are doing this the second time around. Because we both came from divorced situations the holidays were a nightmare. I got tired of trying to “keep up with the Jones’s.” We made a conscious decision to bring Christmas back to the basics. All the gifts that I give now at Christmas are homemade of some sort, be it pajamas, towels, blankets, or some home food item. It took a few years for everyone to accept it. Holidays are now less stressful and I feel that we can focus on what the holiday is really supposed to be about. I try to go to Christmas concerts and events to stay in a thankful and thoughtful mood. I am so glad to hear that others are doing the same.
You are a hoot! I love the way you put things, really made me smile as I read through your post.
I was the youngest of thirteen children. Mom and Dads first born lived only three days. We were poor in ways of money but rich in love from our parents. My Mom was always sick every winter with pneumonia. The one Christmas that I can remember most, Mom was sick, Christmas was approaching, nothing special had been done. One of our neighbors came with a small cedar tree that they dug up, put in a gallon bucket , with the dirt. My Aunt who didn’t have children, came and helped us decorate it with what we had. She whipped Ivory Snow, flakes with small amount of water until it was smooth, thick and silky. We got it by handfuls and rubbed it on the tree. Then we strung. Pop corn and cranberries , made a rope out of it and put in on the tree. We made paper snowflakes out of freezer paper that mom had saved from using it. We were very poor, but at that moment we thought that we had the most beautiful tree ever. Most of all we had LOVE in our house that so many children never experience.
I so love your words of wisdom!! I look forward to reading everyday. I am new to the food blogging and just getting started, you give me much hope and inspiration.for that I can’t thank you enough . My Christmasas were spent with my grandmom. We were inseparable. She made everything homemade and taught me how to cook and bake. She had nothing but lo e to give and a few decorations to hang. Midnight mass was my favorite gift every year. Since she passed I can’t bring myself to go .back. but this year I have a granddaughter and just started teaching her to cook. She is four . She is now my inspiration, and my joy .
Hope your family has a wonderful holiday season.
Never heard of Tiger butter before but it is on my list of Christmas yummies to make.By the way you do have a way with words sometimes in your recipes,they are never boring!!!!! Have a great day!!
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe again!! I wanted to remember to make it for the holidays too!!! 🙂 I love your story, and totally agree with your attitude toward the Spirit of Christmas!! I LOVE Christmastime, and all of the homemade goodies we sparkle in with its magic!! We grew up baking and crafting with my mom, and still continue to do so to this day!! May you and yours continue with your homemade magic sparkled in with the Spirit of Christmastime too!! 🙂
Thank you for your wonderful story. I love to hear that people have found ways to have nice holidays for their families. The story is not so bright for us. We will have no tree, no presents for our grandchildren and we may be moving back into our car at the end of this month. There are many people our age (60’s) that lost their jobs and no one wants to hire us, we are too old. We lost our jobs, our industry died, our home of 25 years and much more. Please everyone say a prayer for all of those who are now homeless americans with no where to go foe help. Thanks!
Hi Christy. I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all of your words of wisdom. I REALLY needed this particular one today–was up all night crying because of the things you were talking about. Anxiety over such things really causes me to forget the REAL meaning of Christmas for a bit! (SHame on me). Anyway–you have become such an inspiration to me–don’t know if you will read this or not; but wanted to post it just in case. 😉 LOVE your recipes too…of course! Have a blessed Christmas with your family wonderful lady!