Friday, February 8, 2013

Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Crunch

I love eating healthy but a girl has got to have her dessert and so I decided that why can't you be healthy and have dessert.......

                          This Creation is...... A Little Bit of Everything with Chocolate!!!!


Ingredients:
1 cup Oatmeal
1 cup Coconut
1 cup Shredded Wheat (small size)
1 cup pretzels
1 cup cheerios
1 cup slivered almonds
1 cup cornflakes or special K cereal
1/2 cup sunflower seeds (optional)
1/4 cup sesame seeds (optional)
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1-1 1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup - 1/3 cup canola oil
1/3 cup honey
2 t vanilla
1-2 t cinnamon

*optional craisens or other dried fruit

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees
1. Mix all the dry ingredients together in a big bowl. Pretzels, oatmeal, cheerios, coconut, almonds, nuts, seeds, 1 cup of the chocolate chips, shredded wheat, cereal, and any other substitutions for the dry ingredients you want.
2. Mix peanut butter and oil in a microwave safe bowl and heat up for 30 seconds to a minute until the mixture is runny. Then add honey, cinnamon, and vanilla and whisk it in with the peanut butter.
3. Mix wet and dry ingredients together and pour into 9 X 13 in pan.
4. Melt 1/2 cup more peanut butter and pour on top. You can drizzle honey if desired.
5. Bake for 15 min. and then pour 1/2 cup more chocolate chips on top and bake for an additional 5 min.
6. Eat and enjoy!!!
7. You can change ingredients to make it as healthy or unhealthy as you want :)

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