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Peanut Butter and Cereal Hemp Bars

Bar cookies made with hemp hearts
Servings 12
Author Cookie Madness

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Special K cereal
  • Hempseeds/Hempnuts
  • teaspoon sea salt or Kosher salt
  • ¼ cup brown rice syrup or maple syrup
  • ¼ cup peanut butter I used Jif - if you use "natural" peanut butter, you may need to add some brown sugar to get the right sweetness.
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Some chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, melted together with a tiny bit of butter
  • Line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with Reynolds "Release" foil or use regular foil and spray it with cooking spray.
  • In a mixing bowl, stir together Special K and hemp, breaking up Special K with the back of a spoon so that it is slightly crushed. Stir in salt.
  • In a separate 2 quart, microwave safe mixing bowl, combine brown rice syrup and peanut butter. Microwave for 30 seconds or until soft and hot. Add vanilla, then stir in Special K/Hemp mixture, mixing so that cereal is coated in peanut butter mixture. Scrape into loaf pan and press firmly into a rectangle.
  • Transfer to refrigerator and chill for about half an hour. Remove from pan by lifting foil. Place on a cutting board and cut into bars. Drizzle with melted chocolate or leave as is. Return to refrigerator and let chocolate set. Bars will also firm up a bit more.
  • Makes 6, 8, 12 or 16 depending on what your idea of a bar is.