Peanut butter blondies are topped with a mountain of handmade marshmallow fluff! Try my fluffernutter cookies or fluffernutter rice krispie snacks next time.

A yearning for peanut butter and fluff led to the creation of these fluffernutter bars. I would have simply prepared a sandwich if I hadn’t been stranded at home during one of our bagillion noreasters this year, and we were out.

I KNOW. In the event of a storm, the first rule is to create a rush at the grocery store and purchase all the milk and bread, even if you don’t eat bread or require milk. Me? I buy a lot of wine and sweets. Priorities.

So I was going to bake my popular fluffernutter cookies, but I needed extra fluff. I ultimately decided to start with peanut butter bars and work my way up from there.

Happily, the experiment worked quite well, as the bars turned out just how I had hoped! Smooth yet not cake-like. Chewy yet not too thick. Most importantly, it’s bursting with peanut butter taste.

I have a tendency of taking off the ends of brownies and bars while they are cooling for two reasons: taste testing and levelling out the bars themselves. You know how you wind up with curving corner pieces and something with raised edges around the perimeter?

I simply chop them off and eat them. Everything has been balanced, and I am given a snack. Win-win situation.

Once the bars cooled, I went online to look for marshmallow frostings. I didn’t have any jars of Fluff on hand (which is rather surprising), so I had to manufacture my own.

My intention was to use the recipe for my smores cupcakes, which are excellent, but I didn’t have enough granulated sugar since the bars used up what I had on hand.

It’s the worst for men to be trapped indoors during natural disasters.

Rather of reinventing the wheel and risking wasting resources on unsuccessful batches, I used this Deliciously Organic marshmallow recipe.

It’s even paleo if you want to use it in other paleo-friendly recipes! Because of this dish? This is very certainly not paleo.

We’re using butter, sugars, and peanut butter, which isn’t paleo on its own since peanuts aren’t nuts; they’re legumes, which aren’t allowed on a paleo diet.

Did you realize that? I didn’t until I became serious about paleo baking and cooking. If you didn’t already know it, consider this your fun fact of the day! You are quite welcome.

Yeah, so that marshmallow frosting is ideal for this.

It’s hard enough that you can pile it on top of the peanut butter bars like crazy, which is exactly what I did.

If you want a thinner covering, that is also OK. You may frost two batches of bars with it or keep it in an airtight jar in the fridge.

Just whip it back into form when you want to use it again (it will separate as it settles).

This frosting combined with these bars is fluffernutter heaven. It’s fantastic.

The bars, on the other hand, can easily stand on their own, so you might leave them bare. You could also top them with something different, such as my mascarpone whipped cream, cookie butter frosting, or a generous drizzle of dark chocolate. You just cannot go wrong.

Isn’t there enough fluffernutter fun for you? Lauren’s fluffernutter cupcakes are a must-try. I guarantee you won’t be sorry.