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
Oh, Miss Christy! This was a simply wonderful post! I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Christmases past, too. I live a long way from any of my family. Heck, I’m up here in Yankee country (Michigan). All my kin are down south. So, I’m remembering the wonderful times with family and friends. Isn’t it funny! When I was little I longed for a white Christmas. Now, I’d just like to have one with tall pine trees. I guess one good thing about being up here is that I COULD put my tiger butter outside to try to get it to harden – if only the squirrels would leave it alone.
The older I get, the more I realize that time spent with family and friends is much more meaningful than a bought gift. Our pastor spoke Sunday about being more of a Mary at this time of year, than a Martha, and gave us some challenges this week to keep our focus on where it should be this time of year-on our greatest gift-Jesus. Christy, thank you for sharing your thoughts and heart with us all.
My husband grabbed the wrong jar of peanut butter ( crunchy) at the store. The jar and receipt have sat on the counter for over a week to go back, but I think I need to make some tiger bark!
I appreciate your point of view and agree with you. We are one of those families not sending out cards this year to save where we can and homemade gifts are on the list this year too. We are still so very blessed.
I always have been blessed to have the love of my family and my Savior and Christmas such a time of joy, we do need to keep focus on what is really important. Merry Christmas everyone.
I have been making Tiger Butter for years and have some in my kitchen right now, ready to share…..it gets huge, raving, crazy reviews every time and is so easy, inexpensive to make. What a great gift to share….homemade ones are best! Perfect!
Thank you Christy! I read that as I was sitting here stressing about how we could make the paycheck stretch to cover the gifts we still need to buy. Thank you for reminding me it’s not about the “stuff”. I can assure you I am starting in January next year! Think I will make some Tiger Butter though – nothing helps stress like chocolate!!
Thanks for sharing your heart with us. It is a great reminder to me in the midst of my busyness and stress. Thanks for the recipe, too. I’ve never heard of it and it sounds like something my family would like!
Alexandra, yes, they are the same thing.