Cereal Treats!

http://realmomkitchen.com/1021/cheerio-treats-and-a-giveaway/

or http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Peanut-Cereal-Squares/Detail.aspx

Okay, so the Real Mom Kitchen blog is addictive. I'm warning you! I didn't make these treats exactly as she did, I used both of these recipes as more of a base and I'm sure you could dress it up all different ways. Here is what I did:

3 cups Chex cereal (I had Rice Chex)

2 cups Rice Krispie cereal

1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (I had milk chocolate)

1 cup sugar

1 cup Karo syrup

Bring these to a boil at medium - medium high heat. Let it boil for 1 minute and then add in:

1 cup peanut butter

1 tsp. vanilla

Stir together cereal and syrup-y stuff and pat down in a 13 X 9 greased pan (whoops, forgot to grease mine but they still lift out easily). I think they could also stand to have more cereal, maybe 6 cups total. Anyways, I wasn't expecting much out of this recipe, but they actually turned out really good! Definitely one of those "I happened to have all the stuff and no other treats sitting around" kind of desserts. Enjoy!