In only 20 minutes, you can put together a pan of crunchy no-bake bars.
Wake-Up Espresso Cereal Bars
- Prep Time 20 min
- Total 2 hr 20 min
- Servings 12
- Ingredients 7
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee granules or instant coffee granules
- 2 teaspoons boiling water
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 2 cups Basic 4™ cereal
- 1 cup broken pretzel sticks
Instructions
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Step1Butter bottom and sides of 8-inch square pan.
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Step2In 3-quart saucepan, heat corn syrup and brown sugar to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. In small bowl, stir coffee granules into boiling water until dissolved; stir into corn syrup mixture along with peanut butter until smooth. Add cereal and pretzels, stirring until evenly coated.
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Step3Press evenly in pan. Let stand about 2 hours or until set. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 3 rows. Store covered.
Nutrition
190
Calories
6g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
29g
Total Carbohydrate
15g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 190
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 6%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 160mg
- 7%
- Potassium
- 125mg
- 4%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 29g
- 10%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 5%
- Sugars
- 15g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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