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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios® Bars

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  • Prep Time 15 min
  • Total 1 hr 15 min
  • Servings 10
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Sunday football watching has just gotten a little sweeter thanks to these football-shaped dessert bars made with Cheerios cereal, chocolate chips, peanut butter and marshmallows.
By Cheri Liefeld
Created Aug 13, 2012
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Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 bag (11.5 oz) milk chocolate chips (2 cups)
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 bag (10.5 oz) miniature marshmallows (5 1/2 cups)
  • 4 cups Chocolate Cheerios™ cereal
  • 3/4 cup whipping cream
  • 1 pouch (7 oz) Betty Crocker™ Cookie Icing white icing

Steps

  •  
    1
    In large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add 1 cup of the chocolate chips and the peanut butter; cook and stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Add marshmallows; cook and stir until melted. Remove from heat; stir in cereal.
  •  
    2
    Press mixture in ungreased 13x9-inch pan. Cool 30 minutes to 1 hour.
  •  
    3
    Meanwhile, in small saucepan, heat whipping cream and remaining 1 cup chocolate chips over low heat until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Refrigerate about 30 minutes until ganache is cooled and thickened.
  •  
    4
    Line cookie sheet with waxed paper or cooking parchment paper. Cut bars with 2- to 3-inch football-shaped cookie cutter. Dip tops of bars in ganache. Place on cookie sheet; let stand until set.
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    5
    With cookie icing, pipe laces on each football. Let stand until set.

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    If you don’t have a football-shaped cookie cutter, make a pattern out of waxed paper and cut around the pattern with a knife, or cut freehand.
  • tip 2
    Instead of football shapes, you can cut the bars into squares. Before cutting, frost the bars with ganache and let stand until set. Then cut into 4 rows by 3 rows (for 12 large bars) or 6 rows by 4 rows (for 24 small bars).

Nutrition

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