Sydney is getting a guilt-free peanut butter dessert bar

A PEANUT butter bar is coming to Sydney and you’ll never feel guilty about visiting. Unless you head to the naughty corner. Then yeah, hit the treadmill dude.

A third of the sugar, three times the protein. Yes, you can have your gelato and eat it too. Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

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WE’VE used and abused nutella, fattened up on freak shakes and loosened our pants to gorge on sugar-laden desserts. Finally, we’re getting a dessert bar without the big fat guilt-factor.

Australia’s first peanut Butter Bar will open on Norton St, Leichhardt, next month and it’s all about “indulgent wellness”.

Owners Christine and Nagib Elbakht have created a mouth-watering menu of cakes, gelato, shakes and more using peanut butters free of refined sugar, preservatives and hydrogenated fat.

“We’ve tried to re-engineer everybody’s favourite classic desserts from gelatos to cookies, cakes, brownies, with the added benefit of protein,” she said.

“We were really focusing on the fitness market and anyone who wants to make better choices in regards to dessert.”

Salted peanut butter & choc-chip skillet cookies. Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

Caramelised banana & peanut butter pudding. Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

The couple are big fans of nut butters because they’re high in good fats, protein and vitamins, and have partnered with Californian natural nut butter brand Buff Bake to create their desserts.

They’ll be dishing up goodies like white choc and peanut butter brownies, vegan peanut butter choc mint puddings and double peanut butter protein cheesecake plus nine gelato flavours, which have about 30 per cent less sugar and three times the protein of the leading market brand.

“Everything is powered by the protein coming from almond butters and peanut butters, so you can still have your cake and eat it to,” Christine said.

“We’re going to make everything you love, just in a better format.”

With 11 grams of protein per serve, Buff Bake nut butters pack a serious punch when it comes to protein! Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

Peanut butter choc mint pudding. Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

High protein brownies with a white choc peanut butter topping. Picture: Peanut Butter Bar

While the emphasis is on healthy desserts, there will be a few naughty options for those who want to indulge.

“Everything in the ‘naughty corner’ will use regular sugar, flours. Everything else is no wheats, no refined sugar and just better quality ingredients where we can, so it’s a cleaner, better option overall.”

DOUBLE peanut butter protein cheesecake 30g protein per serve, no refined sugar. Have your cake and eat it too

Peanut Butter Dessert Bar, Leichhardt. Source: Instagram

The dessert bar is set to bring back some much needed buzz to Norton St. The venue itself is huge — 400sq m — the industrial-style space inspired by the 1976 film Rocky.

Featuring floor-to-ceiling murals of Muhammad Ali and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a replica boxing ring, diners can kick back and watch an old Rocky films as they eat.

DETAILS

Peanut Butter Bar

161 Norton St Leichhardt

Opening early October.