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Sirious Experiment #2: Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunchy Oat Clusters

2/11/10

With this "Sirious Experiment" I was attempting to come up with a recipe for Granola Bars. However, when you think of a granola bar, you think healthy snack... right? Yeah well, in this recipe, when the sugar and the butter and the chocolate and the peanut butter turned into a creamy goo of joyful lusciousness I decided... not a granola bar. Something else, something with a really long title: Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunchy Oat Clusters. Do not let me confuse you - these are not a healthy snack but they are goooood.


Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunchy Oat Clusters
(Makes 24)

2 cups oats
1 cup slivered almonds
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup mini chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 325. Spread out oats and almonds on a baking sheet. Like so!


Toast in oven for 10-15 minutes. You will know they are done when you can smell them. Or when they turn golden. Turn down oven temp to 300.


In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.


Add honey, brown sugar, peanut butter, vanilla, almond extract and cinnamon and whisk until creamy.


Combine oats/almonds and mini chocolate chips in a bowl.


Pour peanut butter mixture over oats and stir.


Grease or spray mini muffin tins. Spoon chocolate oats into each tin.


Bake for 10 minutes. The End!


By the way, I bought 250 of those plastic to-go containers for next to nothing. They're amazing! Makes it so easy to give your baked goods AWAY. So they're not sitting on your COUNTER. For you TO EAT.

7 comments:

Ashleigh said...

I'm laying in bed blogging and watching the office. My boyfriend looked over and saw your post. He started whining like a baby and reaching at the screen. He wants these bad. They do look good. We love peanut butter. Very creative!!!

Gretchen said...

Love using the little mini muffin tins also :)

Jenna said...

Yeah!! Thanks Siri! I can't wait to try these!

Mark said...

stop it right now!

Siri said...

Ashleigh - your husband has sympathy cravings, doesn't he?

Ashleigh said...

Ok, you caught me... He wasn't even home at the time.

Anonymous said...

nice post. thanks.

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