Thread: PB Granola bars

Peanut Butter Granola Bars

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups crispy rice cereal
2 2/3 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup peanuts
2/3 cup peanut butter
2/3 cup oil
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup brown sugar

Line an 9x13 pan with parchment and spray with oil.

Toast the oats in a 350°F oven for 5 minutes until slightly golden. Cool. Take 1/3 cup and process in a mini prep until it looks more or less like flour. Combine it in a large bowl with the rice cereal, remaining oatmeal, and peanuts.

Meanwhile, combine the peanut butter, oil, honey, and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring nearly constantly. Let it boil for a minute. Pour over the oatmeal mixture and stir until all the dry ingredients are moistened. Pour into the prepared pan. Press down very firmly and evenly–this will be important for your bars’ consistency.

Cool to room temperature. Turn the bars out of a pan onto a cutting board. Carefully cut into bars.

That is the recipe but I also added in a cups worth mixture of raisins, dried cranberries, mini m&m's and white chocolate chips.

These things were tha BOMB! I need to make more because they went way too quickly.

I made these this weekend. I omitted the peanuts but used everything else. Very good. My boys enjoyed them. Thank you again!