Easy Cereal Snack Bites
Fabiola Donnelly
Updated Sep 20, 2016
These sweet, crunchy, slightly salty bites are a tasty treat for summer road trips, hiking adventures or picnics.
Easy Cereal Snack Bites
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 60 min
- Ingredients 6
- Servings 36
Ingredients
- 5 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch™ cereal
- 1 1/2 cups lightly salted, roasted peanuts
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup real maple syrup
- 2 cups bittersweet chocolate chips (60% cacao)
Instructions
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Step1In large bowl, place 5 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch™ cereal and 1 1/2 cups lightly salted, roasted peanuts.
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Step2In 1-quart saucepan, place 1 cup creamy peanut butter, 1/2 cup unsalted butter and 1/2 cup real maple syrup. Cook 3 to 4 minutes, stirring frequently, until all ingredients are melted and well combined. Pour mixture over cereal; with large rubber spatula, mix to combine.
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Step3Place spoonful of cereal mixture into each of 36 ungreased mini muffin cups, filling each to top.
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Step4In small microwavable bowl, microwave 2 cups bittersweet chocolate chips (60% cacao) on High in 30-second increments, stirring after each, until melted (about 90 seconds total). Spoon melted chocolate over each snack. Refrigerate 45 minutes.
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Step5Remove muffin pans from refrigerator. Remove snacks from muffin cups; place in airtight food-storage plastic bags.
Nutrition
200
Calories
13g
Total Fat
3g
Protein
15g
Total Carbohydrate
9g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 120
- Total Fat
- 13g
- 21%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 25%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 5mg
- 2%
- Sodium
- 90mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 150mg
- 4%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 15g
- 5%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 8%
- Sugars
- 9g
- Protein
- 3g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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