These bars are tasty and rich!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 50 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 1 – 9×13 inch pan |
Ingredients
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 6 cups cornflakes cereal
- 1 cup roasted Spanish peanuts
- 4 (1.5 ounce) bars milk chocolate candy bars
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium high heat, combine the white sugar, brown sugar and corn syrup. Bring the mixture to a rapid boil, then remove from heat. Stir in the peanut butter until well blended. In a large bowl, stir together the cornflakes and peanuts. Stir the peanut butter mixture into the cornflake mixture and mix until evenly distributed. Press the mixture into a greased 9×13 inch pan.
- In the microwave or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, melt chocolate candy, stirring frequently until smooth. Remove from heat and spread over the tops of the bars. Let cool before cutting into bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 228 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 2 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 114 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I came here, looking for my review, and couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t find it . . . I had put my review on the wrong recipe – “Babe Ruth Bars” – but this is the actual recipe it goes with! [Topped with milk chocolate, rather than chocolate chips stirred in.] So, here is my review of THIS recipe (= [Or rather, my helpful hints – my apologies to review purists ;}] I had this recipe in a beloved cookbook . . . and I was over-joyed to find it here! I had a horrible time cutting them – my ex had to do it for me wearing heavy-duty gloves to protect his hands. What I ended up doing was making “balls” of the dough and dipping them into melted chocolate [be careful of the hot “dough!”]. . . I make these for my chocolate-hating, Baby Ruth-loving manchild. I roll them into logs and don’t dip them in chocolate – for naked Baby Ruth Bars for the chocolate hater. He loves them!
I made these for my coeliac DH and he loved them! Great keeper as they are so easy and fast to make.
m-m-m!! These are delicious if you like a chewy peanut butter treat. I recommend only covering them in a high quality chocolate (no chips mixed in)I used a higher grade dark chocolate. These are truly awesome!!
This recipe is a lot like the other one. I used chunky peanut butter instead of peanuts, 1/2 cup corn syrup, chocolate chips and 4 c cornflakes. The directions were a lot better stated in this recipe, making them look a little more appetizing than the other one. Still don’t taste that great though.
These are great! To make it easy, I use a bag of milk chocolate chips instead of the chocolate bars. Just put the chocolate chips over the still warm bars, cover and let set for a few minutes to soften, then spread evenly.
This is a great recipe, but I modded it a bit — I stirred the melted peanut butter, sugars and corn syrup over the cornflakes, then stirred in the peanuts and *one cup of chocolate chips*. Then, I pressed everything into an aluminum-foil lined pan, which made it easier to get the cut bars out once they were cooled. I didn’t melt any chocolate to pour over the top of them. They’re awfully sweet, but if you have a super sweet-tooth like mine, you probably won’t care. 🙂
Wonderful Recipe. I made these to bring to work before Christmas. They were gone before noon. Everyone who tried them loved them. I also added 1 1/2 cups of peanuts. Liked them so much, I made a second batch for home the next day.
These didn’t look as bad as I expected after readign previous reviews. I think the cornflakes sticking out of the chocolate “goo” may be what others found unappetizing. I did go ahead and sprinkle more chocolate chips and crushed peanuts on top and I ran it back into the microwave briefly so the chips woudl melt a little bit. Really, it would have been OK (especialyl for kids) as written. This one will keep the dentists in business.
This receipe was great. One thing I did was I used 6 chocolate bars to cover the top more. I jsut wanted more chocolate on top.
Hi! After trying this recipe I found I had only one suggestion. You need to almost double the amount of chocolate you melt down to cover the bars to ensure getting a nice even layer. I used two extra bars and still didn’t have enough. The only reason why I didn’t give the Kid Friendly rating a 5 was because I didn’t test this on kids. I made it for a work treat for my birthday. Although, these guys could be considered kids, I guess. Great recipe, and I would definetely use it again!