Honey and peanut butter are used to sweeten these frozen energy balls.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 30 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup white corn syrup
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 6 cups crispy rice cereal
Instructions
- Bring sugar and syrup to a boil. Add peanut butter and stir well. Remove from heat. Stir in cereal (see Cook’s Note).
- Pat into a lightly greased 9×13-inch pan, or drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.
- Allow to cool before slicing bars.
- You can use Corn Flakes, Cheerios, Rice Krispies, or any cereal with a crunch.
Reviews
This is one of my favorite recipes and everyone loves them! I add some vanilla though. Don’t over cook the mix. I use cheerios. It was my Aunt’s recipe for picnics at Potawatomi Zoo when we were kids.
I used plain Cheerios, and added two cups of peanuts for added texture, and still had plenty of peanut butter/sugars to coat. We’re a salty/sweet bunch, so I added a teaspoon of salt. Spread on aluminum foil sprayed with cooking spray.
I substituted one cup of honey instead of the corn syrup and it was really good my family loved it.
I couldn’t believe I came across this recipe! I had been looking for it since middle school. They used to serve these. When the school ran out of cheerios, they used fruit loops. Sounds awful, but SO good!
make this all the time now ???? Use 1/3 cup truvia because the 1/2 of truvia was too sweet.(almost no sugar friendly) Hubby even makes it (if I put his ingredients out ??) We like to mix different cereals. Including old fashioned oats. Gives it a different chew.
Made everything as noted, except I used 4 cups of Rice Krispies and 2 cups of whole oats. Made it very chewy in a good way!!
My mom used to make these when I was a kid (40 years ago!!). I now make them for my own children but with sunbutter because of a nut allergy. Thank you for posting it!
Quick and easy treat! I used Cheerios for the cereal. I only made half a recipe, as I only had 3 cups of Cheerios, on hand. I should have added a bit more (1/2 cup) of Cheerios…some of the syrup mixture settled to the bottom. A half of recipe worked great in an 8″ square pan. I will be making these again! Thanks for the recipe!
Made it with coco crispy cereal. Absolutely easy, fast, and delicious. 🙂
We used cheerios like in the photo. If you love peanut butter and cheerios, it will be a hit for you. I thought the flavor was average. I kept them at room temperature and the mixture remained sticky for me.
These are going to be a major favorite in my house. They are very very sweet with both sugar and corn syrup, and I need to work on that. Bonus for my dentist, but a problem otherwise. They are fast and easy to put together as well. I really like them because I live in Guatemala and finding rice crispies is almost impossible, but Cheerios, or variations on the theme, are easily found.
Good basic recipe that’s quick and easy. Leaves room for lots of variation. I followed the recipe as directed but sprinkled a handful of choc chips on top and spread over as they melted. They became rock hard in the refrigerator, need to bring to room temperature before trying to cut into bars or eat. Grease pan first for easy removal.
not that great 🙁
I was looking for something sweet and these it the spot. I used Cheerios and honey as I didn’t have corn syrup. Dropped by spoonfuls on parchment paper to cool. These didn’t need icing as they were sweet enough.
No matter what I did i did not like this recipe. I tried the original recipe first came out rock hard. Tried some of the tricks and tips from the reviews tasted bad to me still. Even tried different cereal still not even close to what i thought was good tasting. My 6 year old didn’t even eat it and she eats almost anything. So yeah not my recipe lol.
I also used Cheerios instead of rice crispy. One thing I added, after it was pressed into the pan, I dropped some peanut butter on top and spread it as evenly as I could, really thin layer. Then after that I drizzled a little honey all over, not too much, then spread it as much as I could. It helped to warm the honey up a little first in the microwave. Sooooooo good! The fiancé hasn’t tried it yet, but the kiddo and I sure like them!
Great peanut butter flavor. I mixed up the cereals some and added candy corn for some seasonal fun.
These cookies are good
yummmm and so easy and so fast. thanks for sharing this recipe.
These were very quick and easy to make, but were just ok.
Way back when I was a kid, they served these in the school cafeteria. They were awesome then and nothing has changed! They are so easy to make and the ingredients are usually in my pantry. The recipe is delicious with corn flakes too! I like to drop them by spoonfuls onto wax paper instead of putting in 9×13 pan. They seem to be difficult to cut once cooled.