Mini-batch Peanut Butter Cereal Treats

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Mini-batch Peanut Butter Cereal Treats

Prep Time5

Freeze Time1

Course: Dessert, Snack

Keyword: candy, candy bars, easy recipes, freezer, gluten-free, low sugar, no-bake, peanut butter, peanuts, plant-based, rice crispy treat, small-batch, vegan

Servings: bites

Calories: 101kcal

Ingredients

Crisp layer

2 tbsp peanut butter (32 g) sub other nut/seed butter
1 tbsp maple syrup (21 g)
1 cup any cereal, crushed (30 g) gf or even protein cereal if desired, I used rice chex

Peanut butter layer

2 tbsp (white) chocolate chips (28) you can use dark or milk chocolate as well
1 tbsp peanut butter (16 g) sub other nut/seed butter
(optional) more melted chocolate to drizzle

Instructions

In a bowl stir together peanut butter, maple syrup, a pinch of salt (microwaving for 10 secs can help loosen up your nut butter).
Gradually add crushed cereal and make it into a cookie dough, crushing your cereal a bit more as you mix but you want to leave some of the crunchy texture intact.
If the dough gets crumbly though, add a drop of water and mix again.
Press into 6 cavities of a mini-muffin pan (or 4 cavities of regular). Freeze to set.
Microwave together chocolate and peanut butter, 30 sec at a time and stir until all chocolate is melted.
Pour about 2 tsp of this mixture on each frozen base. Re-freeze or refrigerate to set the chocolate.
(Optional) Decorate with more melted chocolate.
Keep frozen or refrigerated and enjoy!

Notes

Use protein cereal for this to make them even higher in protein in addition to the peanut butter.

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