No-Bake Peanut Butter Granola Bars
No-bake peanut butter granola bars made with quick-cooking oats, crispy rice cereal, peanut butter, honey, and mini chocolate chips.
Servings: 20 servings
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1/4 cupbutter
- 1/4 cupsmooth peanut butternot all-natural
- 1/2 cuphoney
- 2/3 cuppacked brown sugar
- 4 cupsquick cooking oatsnot rolled oats!
- 2 cupscrispy rice cereal
- 1 teaspoonvanilla
- 2 tablespoonsmini chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoonspeanut butter chips
Instructions
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir together 4 cups quick-cooking oats and 2 cups crispy rice cereal; set the bowl aside.
- In a small saucepan, combine 1/4 cup butter, 1/4 cup smooth peanut butter (not all-natural), 1/2 cup honey, and 2/3 cup packed brown sugar.
- Heat the saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring until the mixture melts and comes to a full bubble. Reduce the heat to maintain a gentle simmer and cook, stirring, for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
- Remove the pan from the heat and stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Pour the hot mixture over the oats and rice cereal and mix thoroughly so the dry ingredients are evenly moistened.
- Transfer the mixture to a lightly greased small jelly-roll pan (about 12 x 8 x 1 inches). Press the mixture firmly and evenly to a thickness of about 3/4 inch. If your pan is larger, pack and press the mixture into one side so it stays about 3/4 inch thick.
- Sprinkle 2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons peanut butter chips evenly over the top and press them lightly into the bars.
- Let the pan cool on the countertop at room temperature until firm and the chocolate chips are set, about 2 hours.
- Cut into bars, wrap individual bars in parchment or plastic wrap, and store at room temperature.
Equipment
- Large Bowl
- Small Saucepan
- jelly-roll pan
Notes
Notes
If your granola bars don’t seem to be staying together when you cut them, you may have not boiled the mixture long enough…you want it to make it just past the softball stage. OR you made them too thin or you didn’t pack them in tight enough. Stick them in the fridge for 20 minutes and that should help keep them together. {Be sure not to keep them in there too long or else they’ll become super hard!} The next time you make them, try boiling for an extra 15 seconds or so.
If your granola bars don’t seem to be staying together when you cut them, you may have not boiled the mixture long enough…you want it to make it just past the softball stage. OR you made them too thin or you didn’t pack them in tight enough. Stick them in the fridge for 20 minutes and that should help keep them together. {Be sure not to keep them in there too long or else they’ll become super hard!} The next time you make them, try boiling for an extra 15 seconds or so.