I made these last night for some friends who came over for games. They turned out AWFUL, so I wanted to post a couple warnings (mainly for myself to remember) that will help you with this recipe. Normally these are delicious.
The recipe comes from allrecipes.com.
- 1 cup Karo® Light Corn Syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 6 cups crispy rice cereal
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- Cook corn syrup and sugar together in a large pan over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Bring mixture to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter; mix well. Add cereal; stir until evenly coated.
- Pour into greased 13x9-inch pan and pat into place.
- Melt chocolate and butterscotch chips together in saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. Spread over cereal.
- Cool at least 45 minutes, or until firm. Cut into bars.
Here are my notes of warning:
#1) As soon as the sugar mixture boils, REMOVE FROM HEAT. Don't let it cook a single minute--that will make your scotcheroos super hard! You may even break your tooth!
#2) Don't use expired butterscotch chips. They are gross!!! (I didn't notice until it was too late.)
#3) Use high quality chocolate chips! Nothing cheap! Cheap is nasty!
#4) Grease your pan with butter, not PAM!
#5) Use 1 pack of chocolate chips and 1 pack of butterscotch chips. You won't regret it!
