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
For Judy: I just prayed for you and your family and will continue to do so. My heart just broke when I read your post. Bless you for being the kind of mama you are to continue with your holiday traditions…and may you be comforted.
Thank you Christy. I needed that, and I don’t mean the recipe.
Judy, God bless you and your family.
I am so glad you were able to see my heart. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!
I so agree with you Christy. I also only remember a couple diffrent toys I recieved over the course of my child hood Christmas’s. But I do remember the Christmas cookies we baked and decorated, my mom always making candy divinity, searching lot to lot till we found the perfect Chrismas tree ( we always had a fresh cut tree ) helping to decorate the tree, but i think the church Christmas pagent was one of my favorites. I shared all these same things with my son and now hope to start these same traditions with my grand children.:)
Judy, My heart goes out to you and your family. Just want you to know, I’m praying for your son and also you and the rest of the family. God Bless you too.
I hope that you have a very Merry Christmas Susan!!
Judy,
Prayer going up for your son and your family. May God bless and keep you all and give you that Peace that passes all understanding.
We are also having a different Christmas this year.
One I know we will remember for our lifetime. Our son 46 has terminal cancer. Hoping he will be here with us on Christmas day, but not knowing, we are celebrating early .Our tree is up presents are wrappred. Dinner will be Friday. He is in the hospital now but will come home Friday am. He has 5 little grandkids, 3 married daughters and 1 in college. He is Loved and has a wonderful wife. Please pray for him and for our family. God will take care of us. God Bless all of you and have a most wonderful Christmas.
Our Heavenly Father, I pray You will be with this family. I pray You will give them a big ole hug and let them feel your presence. I pray You will give them the strength & courage to get through this difficult time. I also pray Lord, they will feel Your love surround them. Amen
We had a similar Christmas one year with my Grandfather. I can not begin to imagine your pain and grief Judy, but please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I hope that you make lots of memories and despite the circumstances it is a wonderful celebration and blessed beyond measure.
Judy–Just sitting here reading through these posts–Reading yours made me really sad for you and your family .I hope yesterday went well and that he got to come home and be with the family. You really reminded me of what is most important. God Bless Your Family as you all are going through this heartbreak–
I have lost 2 children myself and this is the worst thing that anyone will ever have to go through.
I remember my stocking so much, one of my mom’s discarded nylon support hose. Always had an apple, an orange, a package of Juicy Fruit Gum, a box of cherry chocolates, a new toothbrush, some pencils for school, and maybe a little rubber doll like you find in Mardi Gras cakes or other silly thing. We fixed my Daddy a stocking with chocolate drops (won’t use the other name they called them), the requisite toothbrush, Spearmint gum, and some pens Mom collected from businesses. He fixed her one with same stuff only had the little butterscotch nut candies and wedding mints. So fun to find all those old candies at Dollar Tree nowadays. I think I am going to do that for my grandkids this year!
I think that is a great idea Cheryl!! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!
Oh Christy! Your story brought back so many wonderful memories! Much like you, the things I remember most are not really “things” but memories of how hard my parents and older siblings worked to make my Christmas memorable. I remember sitting near the heater in a rocking chair with my mother and little sister singing carols and reading Christmas stories together, I remember my mother sitting at her sewing machine until all hours of the night sewing us new pajamas (there were eight of us) and doll clothes…did I mention she worked full time in a factory? I remember firing up the stove and baking Christmas goodies with my mother and siblings from shortly after thanksgiving all the way up until Christmas. The goodies were put in cans and boxes in th coldest room in the house to keep until Christmas Eve when we were finally able to eat them all up. Many of the goodies I helped to make back then are the ones I still make for family and friends today. This year I will also add tiger butter because it sounds wonderful! I’m sure my family will love ir and I will make sure to tell them all I got the recipe from you. Christy, I hope you and your family have the mostly wonderful Christmas this year…your stories and recipes are a blessing to many!
What wonderful memories Becky, thank you so much for sharing them with me!! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and blessings to you!!