So excited to have Kristy from The Diary of Dave’s Wife back today!
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Hello Everyone, I am so happy to be back here at Eighteen25. Some of you might remember my last post when I pretty much professed my love for peanut butter M&M’s. Well today I am back to share another fun treat, made with that delicious combination of peanut butter and chocolate.
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When I was a kid, my mom would always make homemade treats for Easter. She was famous for deliciously soft sugar cookies with buttercream frosting, and rice crispy treats. Some years, the rice crispy treats were shaped like Easter eggs, and some times they were shaped like carrots. But my favorite were peanut butter rice crispy treats topped with chocolate.
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Instead of your typical melted marshmallow and butter combinations, these are made with creamy peanut butter, and corn syrup, and can be made within a matter of minutes.
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Just follow my simple recipe:
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 6 cups Rice Krispies
- 1 ( 12 oz. ) bag chocolate chips
Instructions
In large saucepan, combine sugar and corn syrup. Heat to dissolve sugar and bring to boil; remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter. Add Rice Krispies and mix until well blended. Press into buttered 9X13 inch pan. In small saucepan, melt together chocolate chips. Spread melted chocolate over top of Rice Krispies mixture. Cool. Cut into 1″ bars.
See I told you these were easy peasy.
I like to cut them into one inch squares so that they are easy to pop in my mouth, and perhaps make it look like I didn’t eat too much. Because just one of these isn’t enough.
Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 6 cups Rice Krispies
- 1 ( 12 oz. ) bag chocolate chips
Instructions
- In large saucepan, combine sugar and corn syrup. Heat to dissolve sugar and bring to boil; remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter. Add Rice Krispies and mix until well blended. Press into buttered 9X13 inch pan. In small saucepan, melt together chocolate chips. Spread melted chocolate over top of Rice Krispies mixture. Cool. Cut into 1" bars.
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I have to try these! They look so good and I love a good PB and chocolate combo!
I make these but use Special K cereal in place of the rice crisps! I also add butterscotch chips along with the chocolate chips! So good!
Sounds yummy Jill!!
We make these for all family holidays, although ours a slightly different in that we melt 6 oz of chocolate chips with 6 oz of butterscotch chips. They are wonderful & addictive.
oh… that sounds wonderful!! 🙂
Thank you for the recipe! Could you possibly add marshmallows as a substitute for corn syrup? Or maybe that wouldn’t work with the peanut butter?
Does anyone know the answer to this? I despise corn syrup but otherwise this recipe sounds so delicious! I may just try marshmallows in place of the corn syrup anyway. 🙂
You can sub agave or honey for the corn syrup but you might need to play with the amounts. I have also seen recipes with rice malt syrup or something like that instead of both sugar and corn syrup.
I love this recipe as is- have had it memorized since I was 12! But I now use a little extra peanut butter and they tend to turn out better.
I make these, but my mom added a half bag of butterscotch chips to the chocolate chips as they were melting. It provides such a unique taste. I never bring any home when we have taken them to an event and have TONS of requests for the recipe.
My mom added butterscotch chips, too–such wonderful memories of what she called “My Kids’ Favorite Cookie Bars”, served on a Friday night to all my girlfriends, as we gathered for a slumber party!
Love that Sherry!! 🙂
My mom made these growing up! She mixed butterscotch and chocolate morsels together for the top!! Sooo good!!
Oh yum! That sounds good!!
Can anyone tell me how long these will store for? Considering making for two different events that are 3 days apart. Wpuld prefer to make them all at the same time if they will still be fresh for both occasions.
I think if you kept them tightly sealed in something they would be fine for 3-5 days. 🙂
These are yummy. I’m intrigued about subbing marshmallows for the corn syrup. Has anyone tried it yet?
Yummy! I’m torn between this one and one other one I just found, but I the other one has brown sugar – I think I’ll try yours first because I like the idea of just plain sugar for the Krispies. Great share and many thanks!
I added a bag of marshmallows and a stick of butter and they taste amazing!!