These cherry bing bars are the perfect fruity flavors and chocolate combination.
These cherry bing bars bring the cherry flavor and the crunch combination that I love in a cherry pie, but in a delicious bar form! The combination of cherry, chocolate mixture, and peanut butter has always been a family favorite.

Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Cherry Bing Bars, you will need the following ingredients:
- Sugar
- Evaporated milk
- Marshmallows
- Margarine
- Cherry chips
- Vanilla
- Milk chocolate chips
- Creamy peanut butter
- Salted peanuts, chopped
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:



How to make Cherry Bing Bars:
- Combine sugar, milk, marshmallows and margarine in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
- Boil for 5 minutes at a rolling boil and stir the entire time.
- Remove from heat and add cherry chips and vanilla.
- Pour into a 9 x 13 inch lightly greased pan and let cool and set up. (Speed up the process by placing in the fridge.)
- Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and add peanut butter and chopped peanuts.
- Mix together well and spread over the cherry mixture and chill in fridge until set.



Storage Suggestions
If you manage to have any leftover Bars + Brownies, these can store well if prepped appropriately. Once they have cooled completely, here is how you can store it:
- Freezer: To freeze, make sure bars and brownies are completely cooled and unfrosted. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap (or Press & Seal) and then place in a freezer-safe bag or container. For easier portioning, wrap individual squares before freezing. Don’t forget to label with the date. They’ll stay fresh in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- Refrigerator: Place in an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 1 week. Let them come to room temperature before serving for the best texture and flavor.
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Cherry Bing Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- ⅔ cup evaporated milk
- 12 large marshmallows
- ½ cup margarine
- 10 ounces cherry chips
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 11.5 ounces milk chocolate chips
- ¾ cup peanut butter (creamy)
- 1 cup salted peanuts, chopped
Instructions
- Combine sugar, milk, marshmallows and margarine in a saucepan.
- Cook over medium heat and bring to a boil stirring constantly.
- Boil for 5 minutes at a rolling boil and stir the entire time.
- Remove from heat and add cherry chips and vanilla.
- Pour into a 9 x 13 inch lightly greased pan and let cool and set up. (Speed up the process by placing in the fridge.)
- Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and add peanut butter and chopped peanuts.
- Mix together well and spread over the cherry mixture and chill in fridge until set.



















OH MY!!! These look absolutely heavenly!!!! What inspired you to make these? Post it in your Besty List
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These sound really yummy, kinda reminds me of a Cherry Mash candy!! Can’t wait to try!!!
These look good! I guess you could use butter instead of margarine? I am off to find cherry chips. Any idea where to look? Thanks for the recipe. Pinned 🙂
Same question here where can I get cherry chips? Also how many pieces does this make?
They usually have either an ‘end cap’ by the other baking chips or they will be right in with the normal baking chips.
At least that is where they have always been for me when I make them every year! 🙂
You can order them on line. Wal Mart sells Log House Cherry Baking Chips in a 10 ounce bag. If you have a kitchen/cooking store in your area, they sell all flavors of chips. A lot of the stores sell them during the holidays. Amazon also sells Cherry Baking Chips, but they are cheaper if you can find them in the grocery store. Hope this helps!!
You put it in a 9 x 13 inch pan. You can cut them in any size you want. They are creamy and rich, so smaller bars are fine too. When cutting them in the pan we did about 5 across and 6 down, giving us 30 bars!
We made the recipe exactly as it was sent to us in our 12 Days of Christmas Recipe Contest. Not all of the stores have the holiday baking chips out yet. You can also order them online if you have a hard time finding them. I used Orson Gygi cherry chips. You can order them at gygi.com. They have amazing baking supplies.
Thanks – — I can’t wait to get a copy of your cookbook!!!
Can you use other chips (like not cherry) for this recipe too? I don’t like cherry flavors but I’m curious if some other sort of berry chip (I’m not sure what kind because I don’t know what kinds are available, never even knew there were cherry chips before today!) would work! What do you think? 🙂
I’m sure any flavor of chip will work. You don’t see many fruit flavored chips. Sometimes they sell them at specialty baking stores. You can buy raspberry, strawberry and blueberry baking chips on amazon.
I couldn’t find the cherry chips anywhere local so I’m trying vanilla chips using cherry candy and baking flavoring I found @ Michaels along with red food coloring. Fingers crossed!
im getting ready to make these, but was wondering what size marshmallows you mean. The small ones or the ones you would roast over a fire?
The big regular sized ones you roast over a fire! 🙂
These Cherry Bing Bars looks really yummy, but unfortunately we have a peanut allergy in our household. Has anyone tried these without the peanuts & peanut butter? If so, did you substitute something else instead or just leave them out? Thanks!
If you love these bars, you need to make a trip to Sioux City, Iowa, to Palmer Candy Company! These bars taste almost as good as Bing candy bars made only by Palmer Candy Co.
I’ve been making these at Christmas time for over 30 years. I send them to my 5 brothers every year, but finding the cherry chips is a challenge for me. At times my sisters have found them where they live and mailed them to me. Once, when even they couldn’t locate any, and my youngest brother heard he would be without his favorite Christmas treat, he ordered a case online and split them between his 3 sisters!
To save time, I have found that substituting crunchy peanut butter for the creamy works wonderfully! (Then I omit the chopped peanuts)
Six sisters, can the tuff that has to boil form5 min. Be done in the microwave? Thanks
I would definitely do it over the stove top. It boils steady for 5 minutes and you need to stir it the entire time.
It actually is cherry mash, I make them alot.
Wal-Mart is where I found..
I used butter. Perfect.
Had never heard of cherry chips before, this was linked at the bottom of a recent post so in taking a look was pleased to discover these, how interesting, thank you for sharing this!
I would like to use the marchino cherry juice in the recipe called Bing Bars. Would you be able to tell me IF and how much juice would replace the cherry chips?
Cherry juice is a totally different consistency than melted cherry chips. I don’t think this would work. We have only made these as directed on the recipe.
Our cherry portion didn’t set up. What did we do wrong? Anyone else have this problem?
I would guess it is because you didn’t boil it long enough, have to get to candy temp to set. Like when you make fudge.
I have made these for the holidays for many years. The last few years, it has been difficult to impossible to remove both layers from the pan at the same time. The layers separate. Any suggestions on what I need to do? Thanks!
Hi Connie. I’m not sure what is causing your layers to separate. I have not had that problem. You are stirring the mixture constantly as it boils for 5 minutes over medium heat?
Our chocolate layer turned out much too thin, not near enough mixture to cover the cherry layer ?
I couldn’t find cherry chips at Walmart this year. On Amazon they want $15/bag, which is insane. If you live in the Midwest, I finally found some at HyVee on an end cap. Didn’t look at Fareway, but that was the next place on my list.
Frustrated. I followed the recipe exactly, boiled the mixture the precise amount of time, coated my aluminum foil plenty and it was a disaster. The bottom never set up, it separated from the chocolate, and it all stuck to the foil. When I scooped it off the foil, though, it tasted delicious as I was throwing it away. Open to any suggestions!
Could you use marshmellow creme in place of marshmellows?
What makes my Cherry layer and chocolate layer separate? I let the cherry layer cool before I poured the chocolate on and they both set up beautifully, but as soon as I cut them, they fell apart? This has happened the last couple of years. I didn’t have this trouble other years and I followed your recipe completely.
I haven’t tried to make these yet, but I remember my ex’s step mom used to make them and she said if the humidity is high do not make them or they won’t set up just like divinity…..hope this helps!
Good idea
We have not used marshmallow creme in place of the marshmallows, but this is what I found when I googled it for you.
According to Kraft-General Foods Inc., a 7-ounce jar of marshmallow creme may be used in place of 4 cups of miniature marshmallows or 40 large marshmallows when making Rice Krispies treats.
So this recipes calls for 12 big marshmallows which would equal about 1/4 of the marshmallow creme container. Hope this helps. Keep us posted!!
Have a question..when I go to cut into my bars after they’ve been in the fridge the chocolate and cherry layer separate why is this?
Fareway has cherry chips
Have you ever tried putting chopped maraschino cherries in the bottom layer?
Can you freeze these so you can make them ahead of time.
Yes, Cherry Bing bars freeze well!
I am so excited to find this recipe! My mother in law made these for years, but since her passing none of her family have been able to successfully make cherry mash…until now! Thank you!
Hi Ellen. Here is another recipe that is similar to the Cherry Bing Bars. They are both delicious and very similar. The Cherry Chocolate Nut Bars have cherry frosting in them. YUM!
https://www.sixsistersstuff.com/recipe/cherry-chocolate-nut-bars/
What can be substituted for peanut butter? I love your recipes and you tube channel
I actually have a recipe for using cherries instead of the chips. I’m trying to find it back at the moment
Any reason you couldn’t use semi-sweet instead of milk chocolate chips?
If you are a semi sweet chocolate lover you could absolutely use semi sweet chocolate chips in this recipe.
Yes, you are right. The second time I made these, the 2 layers separated. Any idea why? The mash was yummy, but wonder if it’s sort of sticky consistency is the problem?? Even though it seems fine. I just don’t know if I did something wrong and cooking the mash maybe that’s why the layers are separating.?? Sounds like you have a lot of experience with this.
I have made this recipe for many years. Suggest you line your pan with buttered foil or parchment paper so you can lift the candy out for cutting. The cherry part is very brittle and crumbles if you try dipping from the pan
One of my favorites at Christmas. My husband grew up in Sioux City, Iowa, four blocks away from Palmer’s Candy, home of the Twin Bing.
This is more like the Cherry Mash candy bar than the Cherry Bing Bar.
I use cherry frosting instead of the chips so it will taste more like the Bing bar.
Why does the cherry part always separate and breakup from the chocolate topping whenever I try this recipe? Any helpful tips?
That’s a good question. I’m not sure why that might happen. I have not had that problem. You are stirring the mixture constantly as it boils for 5 minutes over medium heat?