No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cereal Bars
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Serves: 2 dozen squares
 
Originally published in my column in Ami/Whisk magazine.
Ingredients
  • 1 ½ cups marshmallow fluff
  • 1 ½ cups peanut butter
  • 1 stick (½ cup) margarine or butter
  • 5 ½ cups peanut butter-chocolate puff cereal (such as Reese’s Puffs)
Topping
  • 16 ounces semisweet baking chocolate
  • 1 stick (½ cup) cold margarine or butter, cut in cubes
Instructions
  1. In a medium pot over medium heat, combine marshmallow fluff, peanut butter and margarine. Stir occasionally until melted, and completely combined. (When ready, the mixture will have a uniform color - no streaks of white should remain.)
  2. Meanwhile, place cereal in a large bowl. When marshmallow fluff mixture is ready, pour it over cereal in bowl and toss quickly to coat all cereal in the mixture. Pour into a 9x13 baking pan and smooth it out. Set aside to cool.
  3. Prepare the topping: Melt chocolate (preferably over a double boiler) and immediately stir the cold margarine cubes into the chocolate. Stir quickly, letting the heat of the chocolate melt the margarine.
  4. Continue to stir until mixture is smooth and all margarine is melted. Pour over cereal mixture in pan. Place in fridge to cool completely before cutting into squares.
Plan Ahead:
  1. These don’t freeze well, but will last, covered tightly, for a couple of days at room temperature.
Recipe by Overtime Cook at https://overtimecook.com/2016/03/30/no-bake-chocolate-peanut-butter-cereal-bars/