Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars! A delicious after school snack made with peanut butter, honey, a bit of sugar, and Honey Nut Cheerios™! Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips if you’re feeling crazy. This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser.
I modified one of my FAVORITE dessert recipes and came up with a delicious after-school treat; Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars.
The original recipe is one that my grandma would make when we would go and visit her. It has corn syrup, peanut butter, rice cereal, a bag of butterscotch chips and a bag of chocolate chips. They were super rich, and super yummy. Not exactly a snack or something you ate very often.
Peanut Butter & Honey Cheerio Bars
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup honey
- 6 cups Honey Nut Cheerios
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a saucepan, combine peanut butter, sugar and honey. Heat on med-low, stirring frequently, until smooth and creamy.Mix in Honey Nut Cheerios. Stir to coat everything evenly.Line a 9x13 baking dish with parchment paper.Press Cheerio mixture into pan. Press down firmly with the back of a spatula to pack the mixture down.Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Refrigerate until firm.Cut into squares.
Notes
Nutrition
Honey Nut Cheerios is just one of the many items that we purchase that participate in the Box Top for Education program.
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These fell apart, as in did not stay together at all. They were also way to sweet 🙁 Not the best recipe.
Hi Tandra, thanks for the feedback! I did notice a type-o. It should read 1/4 cup of sugar instead of 3/4. So I’m glad you left a review because I went right away to double check the ingredients after your comment. With using Honey Nut Cheerios, the recipe might still be too sweet for your taste though. As far as being crumbly, I pack them down super tight in the pan, even breaking some of the Cheerios as I go to keep them nice and firm when they come out again, but there are always a few Cheerios that fell off during the cutting process.
I make these with puff cereal but I don’t add sugar or chocolate chips. The honey sweetens it enough for my taste. I use 2 cups of PB and 1/2 cup honey. I have made them as bars and they do not fall apart, but I have also used a melon scoop and made cookie shapes.
Any idea how many calories per bar?
These came out well and the kids love them but they are much stickier than I anticipated. Do you store them in the fridge?
Hi Sarah! I put them in the refrigerator while they set up, but my 5 kids ate them so quickly that there was no need to store them afterwards.
I store mine in the fridge, otherwise they get too soft and fall apart.
I just made this recipe for the first time. I made a few changes and they came out great. I used almond butter instead of peanut butter because my boyfriend prefers anything that isn’t peanut butter. Because of the extra oil from the almond butter I put 1/8 of cup more honey in the recipe. They did turn out a bit sweet, so I think next time I will use regular Cheerios and omit the sugar. Otherwise, this recipe was delicious. My picky eater boyfriends said they were dank, which is an ultimate compliment from him.
Thanks for posting the recipe.
So glad they turned out delicious! They are definitely sweet so using regular Cheerios is a great idea!