Chocolate Frosted Peanut Butter Crispy Rice Cereal Bars
photo by Julie Bs Hive
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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30
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup light corn syrup
- 1⁄2 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 0.5 (16 ounce) package mini marshmallows
- 5 1⁄2 cups crispy rice cereal
- 1⁄4 cup chopped peanuts (optional)
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TOPPING
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate morsels
- 2 tablespoons shortening
directions
- Pour the rice cereal and chopped peanuts (if using) in a large bowl; set aside.
- In a heavy-bottomed saucepan combine the light corn syrup and white sugar; bring to a boil; continue to boil for 1 minute.
- Reduce heat to low and stir in butter or margarine, peanut butter and vanilla until melted and smooth.
- Add in mini marshmallows and stir until blended.
- Pour the marshmallow mixture into the rice cereal and stir with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- Press the mixture into an greased 11 x 7-inch baking pan, flatten with the back of a buttered spoon.
- In a microwave-safe bowl microwave the chocolate chips with shortening on HIGH until melted, removing once to stir.
- Immediately spread the hot chocolate mixture evenly over the bars; chill to harden the chocolate.
- Cut into desired size bars.
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Reviews
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It's been a while since I made rice crispy bars. I don't remember using sugar and corn syrup. Anyway, I used dark corn syrup and cheerios, because that is what I had, and I needed to use up the cheerios. They turned out nice and gooey. I liked that, but they were sweeter than I like and didn't taste very much like peanut butter. Oh well, maybe I can modify this next time. Thank you for sharing.<br/><br/>Update: They were so gooey because I didn't wait long enough to try them. The next day they were better, but I discovered that I had made them too thick. That made them hard to eat. Still tasted good, though. Still need more peanut butter. I can't seem to stop eating them. All that sugar is going to kill me yet. (And my DH, who is diabetic, but won't leave these alone.)
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