Cereal Treats

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups of your favorite cereal
• 1/2 cup corn syrup or 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup peanut butter (like nutella) or 1/2 cup chocolate hazelnut spread (like nutella)
• 1/2 cup sugar, if using corn syrup (or if you want an added sweetness to your recipe)

Recipe

• 1 line an 8 or 9-inch square baking pan with plastic wrap.
• 2 pour cereal into a large bowl.
• 3 in medium saucepan, combine sugar & corn syrup.
• 4 stir occasionally and bring to a boil over medium heat; boil 1 minute.
• 5 remove from heat.
• 6 stir in peanut butter until smooth.
• 7 pour over cereal; stir to coat.
• 8 press evenly into prepared pan.
• 9 cool about 15 to 20 minutes invert onto cutting board; remove plastic wrap. cut into bars. (or you can drop by the teaspoon on wax paper instead of placing into pan).
• 10 (for microwave directions, prepare pan in step 1 as above.
• 11 in 2 quart microwavable bowl, combine sugar, corn syrup & peanut butter. microwave on high, stirring twice, 3 1/2 to 4 minutes or until mixture is smooth and sugar has dissolved. complete as in step 7 and on).
• 12 (you can also drizzle melted chocolate over cereal bars or make a flavored glaze and drizzle over bars, the possibilities are up to you! have fun!).
• 13 for non apian vegetarians/vegans do not use the honey. ask before making if you are making this for a gift to be sure they consume honey.