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
It’s His presence, not the presents, that make Christmas. I still send Christmas cards (that say Merry Christmas) then make a donation to a Christian Academy school so a child, or children, can receive a Christian education. Then, family and friends receive a card saying “To honor you, a scholarship donation has been made to (insert name of academy) to help a child can receive a Christian education.” Everyone is blessed and only God knows how far into the future the blessings will extend.
This is the best stuff ever.
🙂 Thank you Carol!!
Every time I try to print one of your recipes I get a blank page?
When you click the “print this” button it opens up a new page with just the recipe. I just tried it on several and it worked on the site as it should: see here https://www.southernplate.com/easyrecipe-print/21454-0/
If that isn’t happening on your end you may want to update your browser.
The best things about Christmas are the memories. The gifts are long gone, but remembering my Mom putting up the tree, the doll clothes and P.J.s she sewed while we were at school all year long, and a long gone thing when she would shop (groceries mostly) they gave stamps which you saved in a book, and traded in for goods, one Christmas the perfect purse bought with books of stamps. she is gone over 20 years but the memories they live on.. That is what we need to give our children memories to last forever.
And again great got to make recipes.
Amen Blanche!!
Your story of lean Christmases as a kid resonates with me because it sounds a lot like what my husband and I are living right now- and for the past several years really. We scrape and plan all year long to give our kids Christmas gifts, and it’s still a struggle that only produces a few things for each kid, but you know what? They treasure those few things we can give them and the whole Christmas experience. They feel just as blessed as every other kid on the block with their VHS movies and hand me down bikes and have NO idea whatsoever that we are a low income family. For kids it’s all about the love! Hard times are a blessing for all they teach us.
You are so right Josey, it is all about the love!! God Bless!!
I want to hug you, Josey. I’m doing ok now, but my mother was disabled and so we had a lot of “lean” years, too. Her parents were the kind who worked two jobs each, and “retired” to a farm in their fifties. I always knew we were poorer but didn’t know how much so until I was older and looked back on those years. But I can’t express how rich we were in love and family. I cherish those holidays together more than anything else. Trust me, you are giving your kids all they need. I’d give up everything I have now to just have one more Christmas with all my family alive and together again. I don’t remember many of the presents, but I remember the food, the laughing, the stories, playing with cousins, the smell of everything…
Merry Christmas Christy! This is my fourth year in a row of being alone. It is hard to see the beauty sometimes even though I realize it when you are alone, no phone calls and wondering if you are having bread with your cheese or not. I grew up poor as one could be and an alcoholic father. Those were the best Christmas days of my life. My Mother made us dolls and clothes out of someone else’s clothes but they were beautiful. I still have a set of dolls my mother made me. We would go to church that gave us a little brown paper bag that had the different colored cream candies and roasted peanuts together. I always like the saltiness that got on the candy from the peanuts. Nothing was wrapped and they were such a treat. I would just like to have someone to share my Christmas with. I love to read your stories and this one especially touches my heart so thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
With love
Bea, you sound so lonely. Four Christmases alone means it is time to Share your Christmas with someone. Perhaps someone less fortunate. You must make the moves. It is not selfless to sit and wait. God bless you and Merry Christmas
This looks wonderful! I see where you’ve placed it in packages and it looks great as a gift. Can you tell us where and how you package this for neighbors? I’m homemade challenged! Thanks!
You could put it in a nice Christmas tin, or in plastic bags with a pretty bow. You could even put it in a nice box on some tissue paper.