Peanut Butter Cereal Treats Recipe

I was going through an old copy of a cooking magazine I had laying around the house and tore out recipes I thought Husband would enjoy.   They were sitting in a stack on the kitchen table and when eating breakfast on Saturday he pushed this one towards me with a grin.  It didn't take genius to learn this is the one he wanted me to make next.

This is different from what I usually make but man it's pretty darn good.  I'll list the recipe and instructions as it comes and then put my comments below.

Peanut Butter Cereal Treats

30 large marshmallows
3 tbsp butter
1 tbsp peanut butter
6 cups peanut butter cap'n crunch
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate m&m's

In a large saucepan, combine the marshmallows, butter, and peanut butter.  Cook and stir over medium-low heat until melted.  Remove from the heat.  Stir in the cereal an M&M's.

Pat into a 13x9-inch pan coated with cooking spray.  Cool. Cut into bars.


I actually followed the recipe as indicated except I used multi-grain peanut butter cheerios instead of cap'n crunch cereal.  I figured the cheerios had to be a bit healthier and we would be more likely to eat what was left over that way.

After making this there are a couple of things I would change.  30 large marshmallows isn't exactly one whole bag but it's somewhat close.  I would just add the entire bag next time, minus the ones I eat.  Is it just me or do others forget how good marshmallows are until you have a bag in front of you and decide to snack on one?  Also, the m&m's was almost an entire bag so this is one that next time I would just dump in the entire bag instead of measuring. Ok..and minus the ones that I decide to eat because who can resist eating m&m's?  Although I suppose if you buy one of the large sized bags you would want to measure. or not.