Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats

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Here are two things to know about me:

1. I’m a perfectionist.

2. I make mistakes. A lot.

I can’t count the number of times I have a kitchen mishap where something doesn’t go how I think it would. In cooking it’s easy to make that up by adding new ingredients. In baking it usually ends up in the trash.

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I underestimated how much peanut butter and butter these crispy treats needed. The first time I refrigerated them, they fell apart as soon as I cut in. I had to sweep a few rice crisps off the floor and redo the process, remixing the batter. I don’t think it was as good as if I got it all right from the start. I even debated whether to still serve these, but I’m glad I did because they got two thumbs way up at a party over the weekend. This recipe reflects the fixed version. And you can’t bet I’ll be making these the right way one day soon; what kind of perfectionist would I be otherwise?

Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats

Ingredients:

  • 6 cups cocoa crispy rice cereal
  • 1 1/2 cups no-stir peanut butter, divided
  • 1 cup Fluff(or marshmallow crème)
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

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Method:

  1. In a large bowl, melt 1 cup of peanut butter along with the butter until it’s runny. Mix until the two are combined.
  2. Add in the cereal and Fluff and mix until the cereal is completely coated by the wet ingredients. Press the cereal into a 9 x 13 baking pan.
  3. Melt the remaining peanut butter and chocolate together and mix. Pour evenly over the tray of cereal. Refrigerate until set.
  4. Cut into even squares and keep cold until serving.

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15 Responses to Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Treats
  1. d.liff @ yelleBELLYboo
    July 25, 2011 | 9:07 am

    One of our family friends loves to bake but somehow always messed up the recipe – either left it in the oven too long, missed an ingredient, or something else along the way. Everything was a big “Oops!” – “oops, fudgy brownies with extra vanilla”, “oops, extra crispy chocolate chip cookies”… Somehow, it still always turned out delicious. We told her if she ever opened a bakery should could call it “Oops!, a bakery.”

  2. VeggieGirl
    July 25, 2011 | 9:13 am

    Perfectionists unite 🙂

  3. brandi@BranAppetit
    July 25, 2011 | 9:42 am

    perfect! i love that cereal.

  4. Gina @ Running to the Kitchen
    July 25, 2011 | 12:48 pm

    chocolate & pb, that’s all I needed to hear 🙂

  5. Averie @ Love Veggies and Yoga
    July 25, 2011 | 3:07 pm

    Evan…these look good! Today’s post of mine was choc chip cookie dough & marshmallow stuffed rice krispie bars w/ choc frosting. Sometimes I do PB frosting but these were just straight choc.

    I am the BIGGEST R K Treats fan!!!!!

  6. Casey @ Pocket Full of Sunshine
    July 25, 2011 | 4:12 pm

    This post made me completely crave anything chocolate, and sadly, all the treats I made over the weekend are gone! To the grocery store I go. 🙂

  7. kita
    July 25, 2011 | 7:04 pm

    I feel ya on both points. I love how I can make myself laugh every time I screw up though. These little treats look great even if they are a patched version 🙂

  8. Claire @ Un Bello Aperitivo
    July 25, 2011 | 7:54 pm

    I think I’d like Fluff a lot better if I could lick it out of the jar easier.

  9. Hannah
    July 26, 2011 | 12:30 am

    Can’t get marshmallow creme of any description here, but luckily I have both normal-marshmallow and non-marshmallow versions of this recipe that I could co-opt to your peanut butter standards. Hurrah!

  10. Kathleen @ Kat's Health Corner
    July 26, 2011 | 10:21 am

    Peanut Butter + Chocolate = WINNER!!! 😀 These sound amazing!! 😀

  11. Joanna
    July 27, 2011 | 12:33 am

    We have something similar in Australia which none of my friends or co-workers here in missouri had heard of till I made it.
    It’s rice krispies, melted milky ways, butter and chocolate.
    In australia we call them Mars Bar slice because a mars bar there is an american milky way. (BTW an Australian Milky way is an american three musketeers.) If anyone wants a recipe just look up mars bar slice on google. It’s amazing.

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  13. Janine
    April 11, 2012 | 10:24 pm

    I just made them (today is Wednesday) but will not be serving them until Friday. Should I keep them in the refrigerator or out at room temperature until then?

    Thank you

    • Wannabe Chef
      April 11, 2012 | 10:27 pm

      I would keep them in the refrigerator and take them out an hour or 30 minutes before you eat them.

      • Janine
        April 11, 2012 | 10:57 pm

        Will do. Thank you!