Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Brown rice crispy treats


1. I've been meaning to put this recipe up here for almost two weeks now, but I get distracted easily.
2. I have hair color on my hair so I have to make this one quick
3. I have made these delicious gooey treats four times in the ten days. Yes, they are THAT good.
4. Josh and I are headed to Washington (state) on friday morning and I have yet to pack.
5. These take less than five minutes to make and are quite healthy (compared to traditional rice crispy treats that is)



Okay, enough of that list. These little treats are quick, easy, healthy and hands down my favorite "dessert" right now. My husband and our friend Drew gave these two thumbs up, which is why I've made so many batches. I hope you love them as much as we do.

Brown rice crispy treats

1/3 cup brown rice syrup
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups brown rice crisp cereal (regular rice crispy cereal would do fine, I'm sure)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Heat brown rice syrup and peanut butter over medium heat until it looks like a thick syrup, about 2-3 minutes. Add vanilla.
Spray a medium sized bowl with oil and add the rice cereal, pour syrup mixture on top, (add chocolate chips now if you want them melted in, or add after syrup mixture is incorporated if you want to keep their shape) and mix until evenly coated and chocolate is melted in.
Press into oiled 9x9 dish. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

15 comments:

  1. that does look very easy to make, and quite yummy too!

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  2. I don't have brown rice syrup. Can I sub regular white corn syrup?

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  3. I am absolutely making these as soon as I possibly can. I thought when I gave up meat (and meat-derived products such as gelatine in marshmallows) my rice krispie treat days were over but I'm so happy to see they aren't!

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  4. Jennifer jo -
    i'm not sure regular corn syrup would work, i havent tried though.

    you could sub maple syrup with similar results but it may not stick together as well since brown rice syrup is much stickier than maple. it would still be delicious however.

    if you try, let me know!

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  5. where do you get brown rice syrup? i've never seen it. those sound yummy!

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  6. i second mandy with the brown rice syrup ... i'll have to check whole foods. great recipe.

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  7. Those look absolute yum! I'm going to have to try and convince my Mum to get baking with me :D xxx

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  8. Hi there! Wanted to let you know I made those rice crispies and posted about them today, they’re delicious!

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  9. Love the photography-these bars look so fun to make and of course I'm sure they're absolutely delicious!

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  10. DID YOU STEAL THIS RECIPE FROM ALICIA SILVERSTONE'S BOOK?

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  11. this time i got the idea for this recipe somewhere in the internet. However it is the same ingredients from The kind diet recipe, the proportions are quite different.

    For future reference, if i have a recipe up that i adapted from a cookbook it will say under the recipe title.

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  12. These are ridiculously easy and insanely delicious! Thanks for sharing. Where else do you use brown rice syrup?

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  13. I am now addicted to these. Please do not post the nutrition information if it is above 10 for fat or calores.

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  14. I want have to know more and more, on your blog just interesting and useful information.

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