Comments on: Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Crispy Bars

By: gretchen

gretchen — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:11:33 +0000

Made these the other night and oh my dear lord. Did a double batch, here were my swaps:
-used brown rice syrup instead of corn syrup
-didn’t use the cream cheese layer
-only did a single batch of the chocolate, but did dark chocolate and salted it

Everyone who has been freaking out at how amazing they are. If I had put in the cream cheese layer, our heads might have exploded! Thank you for the recipe!

By: Marly

Marly — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:08:05 +0000

Hi Della! Thanks for pointing that out. I realized based on your comment that I forgot to include the cocoa in the first part of the recipe. It’s optional and would taste fine either way. I just happened to like the idea of a chocolate peanut buttery spread. I hope you enjoyed the bars!

By: Della

Della — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:50:20 +0000

In the first part of the directions, in step 4, it says to coat the crisps in the chocolate peanut butter coating. Is there a missing ingredient to the first section of mixing? I don’t see that there’s chocolate in that part of the recipe. I made it as stated so we’ll see how it turns out tomorrow!:)

By: Marly

Marly — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:36:39 +0000

Hi Kristy – I can’t wait for you to try them and then let me know how it goes! I love things that remind me of meals with my family. That reminds me, I think there might be a big family meal coming this weekend! Yeah!

By: Kristy@Keepin' It Kind

Kristy@Keepin' It Kind — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:39:07 +0000

Oh my lord. I know I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I need this in my life, like, now. They remind me of something my grandma used to make (but far from vegan). My step-daughter was walking behind me while I was looking at this, and she stopped in her tracks when she saw the pictures. Then she asked when we’re having them, lol. Can’t wait to try them! Thank you!

By: Marly

Marly — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:32:34 +0000

I agree. Now I’m going to have to make them again, but this time with the chickpea variation. Yumm!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:11:43 +0000

These look fantastic! And I love the chickpea-rather-than-cream cheese idea. Thanks!

By: Marly

Marly — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:50:42 +0000

We ate them so quickly that we didn’t need to worry about refrigeration. If you think it will take you longer than a few days to get through them, you might want to refrigerate them. But I’d probably let them sit to get to room temperature before eating them – otherwise they might be difficult to chew!

By: Marly

Marly — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:49:02 +0000

Any dairy-free margarine should work just fine. You could probably even use vegetable oil. In fact, if you didn’t want to do that, you could just add little more soy (or other dairy-free) milk. Your chocolate will set on the creamy side but it should still taste just as good!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:07:41 +0000

What could I use instead of the coconut oil or spread?

By: Saffron

Saffron — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:48:44 +0000

I am so going to try this with Nutella!

By: marian

marian — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:16:13 +0000

Just a heads up, on the latest episode of Dr. Oz there were warnings about arsenic being in brown rice syrup.

By: betty hatfield

betty hatfield — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:08:05 +0000

This sounds incredible. Does it have to be kept refrigerated?

By: The Cozy Herbivore

The Cozy Herbivore — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:36:29 +0000

YUM! What a wonderful combination– chocolate, peanut butter and rice crispies? I love it. And it’s vegan. You are a genius, my friend.

By: Jovana

Jovana — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:52:46 +0000

Okay, I made them last night.

It made a decent pan size and I gave half of it away (simply because I can’t afford to eat that many – lol!).

The Peanut butter with chickpeas…. WORKED LIKE A CHARM. OMG. It was SO, SO good! I was literally licking it off the spoon while working with it… lol!

These things are absolutely delish….