Peanut Butter Cereal Bars

"Highly Addictive" --The Family Chronicles.

"The best breakfast ever!" --The Daughter's Best Friend.

These Cereal Bars lie somewhere between your basic Rice Krispie Treat and the Special K Bars that delighted me in my youth.

Summer is always a good time to eat down the pantry so when I saw this GIANT box of cereal that was sitting untouched (don't you love COSTCO?), I decided that a little transformation would go a long way.  These bars will work with almost any cereal, but this low calorie, high fiber cereal left me feeling almost guilt free when I served it for a sleepover breakfast.

The reviews speak for themselves, as does the fact that the entire pan was gone in less than 48 hours.

PEANUT BUTTER CEREAL BARS
by Rachel @ Simple Girl

12 cups cereal such as Fiber One Squares
2 bags marshmallows
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup peanut butter
Semi Sweet chocolate Chips for drizzling

Grease a 9 x 13 inch cake pan. Melt marshmallows and butter on low heat in a very large pan.  When mixture is just melted, add 1 cup of peanut butter.  Stir to combine.  Remove from heat.  Add cereal and stir until cereal is evenly coated.  Pour mixture into the 9 x 13 inch pan.  With greased hands, or better yet, a greased plastic bag placed over your hand, pat mixture down.  Let cool.  Run a knife along the sides of the pan and flip pan over to remove the bars. With a sharp knife, cut into 24 squares. Drizzle individual squares with melted chocolate chips. 

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