Fix Me A Snack

These somehow manage to give me a sugar buzz even though they don’t seem to be totaly overloaded with it. I’ve really got to get some piece of software that will spit out nutrition information for recipes.

Anyway, these are tasty, as you can well imagine. It’s sort of like a reese’s peanut butter cup and a kit kat decided to quit their day jobs and move out to the country to start running their own organic co-op.

1/2 cup peanut butter (homogenized works best)
1/4 cup chocolate chips
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed or wheat germ(optional)
1 1/2 cups corn flakes cereal

Place peanut butter, chocolate chips and maple syrup in a medium saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly with a rubber spatula until chocolate is melted and combined.

Turn off heat but leave your saucepan on the burner. Quickly stir in flaxseed or wheat germ. Immediately add cereal and stir gently with rubber spatula until well-coated. If the peanut butter mixture starts to get too firm, reheat it a bit.

Place mini muffin paper cups in mini muffin pan and spoon heaping tablespoons of the cereal mixture into the cups. Cover and allow to set for 1 hour. Serve or store in an airtight container. Best eaten the same day.

Yield: approximately 22 clusters
Prep time: 15 minutes
Set time: 1 hour

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7 Comments

1. Ryan Green
   2:12 am on May 14th, 2010

   i love both peanut butter and cheeze as the filling of my morning sandwhich.-.”

2. Caitlin Baker
   5:36 am on May 14th, 2010

   i love both peanut butter and cheeze as the filling of my morning sandwhich.,~:

3. Jaclyn
   4:13 pm on August 19th, 2010

   This just didn’t work for me at all. The peanut butter/chocolate chip/maple syrup mixture just turned into a paste that was impossible to mix with the cereal. I even tried it again using almond butter and heated at VERY low heat and still no luck. I salvaged my second batch of “paste” by making it into balls and rolling it into toasted sesame seeds like healthy(ish) truffles.

4. Cindy
   4:16 pm on August 19th, 2010

   Jaclyn,
   So sorry. The trick for me is to mix the flakes in while the peanut butter mixture is very warm still. The minute it starts to cool it turns into the paste of which you speak.

5. Camila Perry
   11:46 pm on September 13th, 2010

   i love the taste of peanut butter but i have peanut allergy so i cant eat it~-.

6. Body Pillow 
   4:08 am on October 13th, 2010

   i have also an allergy on peanute butter but i can eat a little of it,::

7. Projector Lamp
   12:27 pm on December 21st, 2010

   peanut butters are very tasty, the only problem is that i have some very bad peanut allergy .,`