Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Yum Yums or Super Yummy No-Bake Peanut Butter Crisp Rice Cereal Treats

If you love sweets, peanut butter or rice krispie treats, I suggest you move on to something else immediately as this is an addictive recipe.  I stumbled across this recipe on the box of Crisp Rice Cereal at my local Trader Joe's and chose to try it as one of my twelve new recipes for 2012.  On my first attempt to make this, only half of the recipe made it to step 8 (refrigerate or freeze to set).  This was not due to any disaster with the recipe.  It's just that good. 

As this is a sticky treat, I found the extra step of lining the baking pan with aluminum foil whose edges hang over the side of the baking pan help in removing these from the pan to a flat surface to cut into bars.

Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Yum Yums 


Non-stick cooking spray, for pan
Aluminum foil, for pan

1 cup Trader Joe's Brown Sugar
1 cup Trader Joe's Blue Agave Syrup
1 cup Trader Joe's Peanut Butter (creamy salted stye suggested)
7 cups Trader Joe's Crisp Rice Cereal

1.  Line 13" X 9" plan baking pan with aluminum foil, letting edges of foil hang over side of pan.  Spray aluminum foil with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
2.  Measure Crisp Rice Cereal.  Set aside.
3.  Measure Peanut Butter.  Set aside.

4. In a 3 quart saucepan combine brown sugar and agave syrup.  Bring to near boil, stirring often.  Continue stirring until brown sugar dissolves.  Remove from heat.
5. Add peanut butter to mixture.  Mix well.
6. Add Crisp Rice Cereal to mixture.  Mix well. 

7.  Pour mixture into greased baking pan and top with a piece of waxed paper.  Press the mixture firmly and evenly into the pan.

8. Remove wax paper and refrigerate for several hours to cool and harden.  To harden more quickly, place in freezer for about an hour.

Makes about 16-2" squares.