Peanut snack bars
So, we’d been buying peanut butter bars from the store (natures valley ones I think). But they get expensive. Especially when you have three kids scarfing them all day. And then we noticed the ingredients list was perhaps longer than we’d've preferred
So, I went looking for some idea of how to make some at home. For less money and fewer ingredients
- 1.5 C flour
- .75 C brown sugar
- .5 C softened butter
- dash of salt
- .5 C honey
- 1 T water
- 2 T butter
- 1 C butterscotch chips
- 3.5 C peanuts
Mix up to salt, and pat into bottom of jelly roll pan covered with parchment/wax paper. Bake 10 min at 350.
When you pull that out, layer the peanuts on top. Mix remaining ingredients until melty. Pour over the peanuts.
This’ll not go very far so try to drizzle it to get decent coverage.
Bake another 15 min. Cool fully and figure out how to cut it. I generally pull it out on the paper (I assure you it’s stuck) and use a pizza cutter to break it down decent sizes. Paper comes off during this
I generally store in a ziptop bag and leave it open occasionally to keep them the right softness.
Difficulty: Easy enough. Little bit of time, but they seen to last a couple weeks.
Recipe: Done it twice now. Last time we used chocolate chips instead and it worked good. Technically it calls for corn oil but we didn’t have any. I even put the peanuts on after pouring the melted chips and they still work. So it’s very forgiving
Price: We stuck with cheap honey (bear bottle). Still I think it’s a toss up between the honey and the chocolate chips for which costs more. This is probably 10$ at the outside and makes 25 or so bars of average granola bar size. Maybe 30? Depends on how well you cut them I suppose
Definitely a fun simple recipe. Not really much for the kids to help with, but when they’re a little older definitely
Tags: Snacks