Cereal Bars Recipes

Steps:

• Grease a 9 x 13 inch pan.
• In a large sauce pan, combine sugar and light corn syrup. Cook over medium heat until boiling. Stir in peanut butter until smooth. Remove from heat and stir in the cereal. Pat the cereal mixture into the greased pan.
• Melt peanut butter and chocolate chips over a double boiler or in the microwave. Spread the melted mixture over the cereal bars and refrigerate to set.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• FILLING:.
• Heat fruit in a saucepan over med-low heat, stirring occasionally.
• Cook until the fruit begins to cook down and thicken, about 15 minutes.
• If the fruit is to chancy, put in a blender to puree for a few pluses then put back into the pan.
• Whisk in cornstarch and cook 5 more minutes.
• Taste fruit and if it is too sour add 1 teaspoon of sugar until it is to taste.
• Put fruit into a heat safe bowl and into the fridge until cool. About 20-30 minutes.
• You can make the fruit up to 2 days prior to using.
• CRUST:.
• Cream butter, sugar, vanilla and applesauce
• Add to flour and mix throughly.
• Place dough onto plastic wrap and form into a brick. Cut in half and wrap each in plastic wrap and chill in fridge for 20-30 minutes.
• Roll out half of the dough and transfer onto a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. To make it eaiser on myself, I rolled the dough out between 2 peices of parchment paper.
• Spread fruit onto dough.
• Roll out 2nd half and place on top. Press down the sides to seal them. Use an egg wash if you want to help keep sides sealed.
• Trim the edges if you want it pretty. :).
• Bake for 25-35 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Take out of pan and cool completely on cooling rack.
• Cut bars into desired size.
• Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Use parchment paper between layers.
• Freeze remaining bars in freezer safe container or bag. Let thaw overnight in fridge.

Steps:

• Boil the margarine, corn syrup, and sugar.
• Add peanut butter, then mix with cereal.
• Pat the mixture into a standard size baking pan using buttered hands (if necesssary).
• Melt the chocolate and butterscotch chips and pour over top.

Steps:

• Melt oil, honey, peanut butter in microwave just until easy to mix up, watch careful, probably 20 seconds or so.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Mix all ingredients together and press down well into 8" square pan sprayed with Pam.
• Make sure you press down firmly.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes.
• Let cool before serving.

Steps:

• Measure cereal into large bowl. Set aside.
• Boil corn syrup in microwave. Add white sugar and stir well. Return to microwave and reheat until boiling.
• Add peanut butter to sugar/syrup mixture and stir well.
• Quickly pour peanut butter/syrup/sugar mixture into mixing bowl with cereal. Stir well (but fast!) and then transfer to a pan or baking sheet. *NOTE: This step, and the one following, must be done as quickly as possible because as the corn syrup cools the cereal mixture becomes harder to spread.*.
• Form mixture into one big rectangle about 3/4 inch thick. Cool in fridge for 1 hour.
• After its cooled the cereal rectangle may be cut into bars or squares. An alternative is to break the rectangle up by hand into pieces.
• Please note that cheerios should not make up more than 1/3rd of the mix as they absorb the corn syrup. If you need to use more cheerios (or other absorbent cereal) then add a bit more corn syrup.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Combine cereal, 3/4 cup flour, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
• Cut in butter until coarse crumbs form.
• Press 1/2 the mixture firmly into the bottom of a greased 8inch square pan.
• Mix yogurt, egg and 2 tablespoons flour in another small bowl. Spread over cereal mixture in pan and then sprinkle the remaining cereal mixture on top.
• Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown; cut into bars when cooled.