Peanut Butter-Chocolate-Oatmeal Cereal Bars

03/29/2011 22:53

 

Hands-On: 15 minutes
Yield: Makes 4 dozen
 

Ingredients

  • 2  cups  uncooked quick-cooking oats
  • 3/4  cup  firmly packed dark brown sugar
  • 3/4  cup  all-purpose flour
  • 3/4  cup  butter, melted
  • 1  large egg
  • 1  cup  light corn syrup
  • 1  cup  granulated sugar
  • 1  cup  creamy peanut butter
  • 4  cups  crisp rice cereal
  • 1  (12-oz.) package semisweet chocolate morsels
  • 1  (10-oz.) package peanut butter morsels
  • 1  cup  chopped dry-roasted peanuts

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350°. Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl. Press firmly onto bottom of a lightly greased 15- x 10-inch jelly-roll pan. (Mixture will be thin.) Bake 12 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack 10 minutes.

2. Microwave corn syrup, sugar, and peanut butter in a large microwave-safe glass bowl at HIGH 2 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals. Stir in cereal. Press mixture firmly over oat mixture in pan.

3. Microwave chocolate and peanut butter morsels in a microwave-safe glass bowl at HIGH 1 to 1 1/2 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring at 30-second intervals. Spread over cereal mixture. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts. Cool 45 minutes. Cut into bars.

Note: We tested with Reese's Peanut Butter Chips and Rice Krispies cereal.

 

Dolores Vaccaro, Pueblo, Colorado, Southern Living, APRIL 2011

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