Peanut Butter Cereal Candy
(with Tahtee changes)
(from the ACU women's cookbook...
a gift from my mother at my bridal shower in 1975)
*this has been a family favorite for years... much better than the marshmallow cereal bars*
3 cups Rice Krispies cereal
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cut white corn syrup
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Combine sugar and syrup, cook, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a full rolling boil.
Remove from heat, stir in peanut butter and vanilla, and immediately pour syrup over cereal mixture, stirring gently to coat.
Pat mixture into buttered 8'X8"X2" pan. Cool, cut into bars.
*this is the original recipe.... in my bars, I substitute and add whatever I want to make it healthier.
*I also usually double the recipe for our family
GET NUTRITIONALLY CREATIVE
ex: substitute Almond butter for Peanut butter
*use LivActive cranberry cereal for 1/2 of cereal mixture
*add nuts (whatever kind you like) or sesame seeds
*add chocolate chips (be sure to do this last minute as the hot mixture will melt the chips)
*add bran, or flax seeds... raisins, cranberries (don't use the sweetened ones), oatmeal, etc.
***caution... as you are adding, be sure not to add more than the liquid mixture can handle or the bars will not be chewy, but hard and crumbly ;)
**for Christmas it is pretty to use pistachios and cranberries in the candy... and good!!**
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