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Dark Chocolate-Peanut Butter Bars

Make a simple sweet-and-salty confection by mixing together a delicious blend of chocolate, peanut butter, puffed rice, and pretzels.
Mad Hungry, March 2011
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Ingredients

  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 6 cups mini marshmallows
  • 12 ounces crunchy peanut butter
  • 6 cups puffed rice cereal
  • 2 cups mini pretzels or pretzel sticks, broken into pieces
  • 8 ounces dark chocolate, chopped (or chocolate chips)

Directions

  1. Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with parchment and coat with nonstick cooking spray.

  2. Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add marshmallows and peanut butter to pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is melted and beginning to bubble, about 3 minutes.

  3. Remove pot from heat. Stir in remaining ingredients until well combined. Transfer to prepared baking dish and smooth top using a spatula. Cool to room temperature.

  4. Use parchment to lift bars from baking dish. Transfer to cutting board and cut into squares to serve.

Recipe Reviews

  • veganfan
    22 Nov, 2011

    this sounds really good, but how can you make it vegan? I love the show and I want to get more ways to make vegan dishes.

  • autumnharvest
    15 Oct, 2011

    These were "mad dank"! Perfect combination of sweet and salty. Way better than anything we can buy at the store. I love watching your show. Thanks for sharing!

  • jronay
    15 Oct, 2011

    These were fantastic! I omitted the peanut butter, since my two year old son was having them and the whole family loved them. Gotta love that salty-sweet goodness!

  • Malonda21
    14 Oct, 2011

    This recipe was super easy and although I believe it is best to try a recipe before making amendments, i made this recipe with vegan ingredients and my family loves it.

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