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Crunchy Peanut Butter Oat Bars

 

Today we had our Quarterly NST meeting and I had to come up with a quick snack for our 12:00 o’clock meeting to fuel the team. I love these diverse bars. You can add whatever you have on hand. They are quick to make but quick to be gone as well. Bonus they are no bake.

Yields: 18 bars

Ingredients:

1.5 cups 100% quick oats

1.5 cups brown puffed rice

1/4 cup raw sugar

1/2 cup honey

1 tsp Mexican vanilla extract 

1/8 kosher salt

1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

1/4 cup unsalted roasted peanuts

1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

2 TB milled flaxseed 

Pre directions: foil line a 9 by 13 and spray with cooking spray. Set aside.

Directions:

1. Place puffed rice, oats, peanuts, flaxseed

 and mini chocolate chips in a medium bowl. 

 

 2. In a seperate large bowl add peanut butters, honey and raw sugar. Microwave for 1 minute and stir about half way through and continue to heat mixture.  

 

  

3. Add the vanilla and stir. Add in dry ingredients.  Stir to combine.

 

4. Once throughly mixed pour mixture into the foil lined pan. 

  

5. Spread evenly into pan with spatula.

6. Cover and let set overnight in refrigerator to set. 

 

  

7. Lift bars out of the pan by foil and set on cuting board and cut into 18 bars. 

 Enjoy!