National Peanut Cluster Day Date in the current year: March 8, 2026

A peanut cluster is a type of candy made with melted chocolate and peanuts. It's the perfect blend of sweet chocolate and slightly salty peanuts. There are also other types of clusters with peanuts. They can be made with caramel and butterscotch. If you're tired of peanuts, you can substitute other nuts. However, these won't be peanut clusters and therefore have nothing to do with today's holiday.

There is no official documentation about the origin of this sweet treat. However, food historians believe that Americans began making peanut clusters after chocolate tablets, pastilles, and figures (as well as chocolate-covered fruits and nuts) first appeared in Belgium. The first peanut clusters were made without a chocolate coating, and the nuts were held together with honey or caramel.

Elmo Lanzi invented the first machine that could dip peanut clusters in chocolate in the 1930s. This machine automated the slow process of hand-enrobing and popularized chocolate-covered peanut clusters.