Maple & Oats Cereal Bars
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 3-1/2 cups cereal (I used a mix of rice krispies and cheerios)
- 1/2 cup quick oats
- 3/4 cups sun butter (peanut butter or any other kind of “butter” can be used)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup instant nonfat dry milk
- 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
Instructions
- Mix the cereal and oats together in a bowl and set aside.
- Heat the SunButter and maple syrup together in a saucepan on a low flame; stir together until smooth. Or, using a microwave-safe bowl, melt together in 30 second increments, stirring and repeating until smooth.
- Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
- Stir in the instant dry milk.
- Pour the SunButter mixture over the cereal and oats mixture and coat well.
- If you have a cereal bar mold, take about ¼ cup of mixture and press into each cavity until all are filled. If you don’t have a mold, press the mixture into a 9x13 pan.
- Melt the semi-sweet chocolate chips. Drizzle over the bars.
- Allow cereal bars to firm up in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
- Once the cereal bars are set, remove from each cavity in the mold or from your baking pan. Cut into rectangles if you used a baking pan.
- Individually wrap each bar and store in the refrigerator for a quick grab-and-go breakfast.