2/14/2023 0 Comments Peanut butter corn flake candy![]() Stacks on top of stacks – Couldn’t squeeze a toothpick in there. Everything was so neat, tidy, and spacious….until I saw the top shelf. After my husband cleaned out the fridge and reorganized it, I opened the door and burst out laughing. All you need is 1.5 inches of space at the very top of each shelf. We have a side by side fridge, & not a lot of room, so everything is stacked up when it’s full, which is all the time! We were making chocolate candy for a party, 3 cookie sheets worth. Three nearly the same height is even better. ![]() ![]() Find two matching taller things about the same height, one on each side, and balance your cookie sheets on top. Just a note to say that sometimes you have to rearrange your whole fridge to make cookie sheets fit, when you’re cooling chocolate stuff. Remove from heat, stirring in corn flakes to the consistency you desire. As soon as the sugar mixture comes to a boil, remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract and corn flakes, mix until corn flakes are evenly coated in sugar mixture. Who cares,they are super crazy good! Enjoy! Mix peanut butter, sugar and syrup, heating until softened. In my opinion they are a borderline no-bake cookie or possibly a crunchy chocolate candy bar. I heart no-bake treats, especially when they’re only 3 ingredients and include chocolate. My kids and I made these chocolate peanut butter haystacks except I made them with Corn Flakes instead of the typical dried chow-mein noodles. I’m all about simple recipes which are ridiculously easy to prepare and are oh-so-good. Seeing that lonely box of unopened Corn Flakes was just the inspiration I needed to satisfy my sweet tooth and affirm my laziness with very little clean up. Instead, I looked in our cupboards to see what we had on hand to make something which required little work. But my lazy self did not want to bake for some unexplainable reason. My girls have no school this week and after our little dancefest we decided to make cookies. Either way, for one moment in time, I was a kid again. I’m still trying to figure out if she meant that as a compliment or as an insult. But the three of us had a lot of fun with my oldest daughter commenting how surprised she was with my moves. I held no prisoners and proved once and for all, I still got game. Yep, that was me the other day, except without the tantrum but complete with dancing to Beyonce’s Crazy in Love (booty shake included) while kicking my daughters’ butts in Wii’s Just Dance 2. Texturally, not only do the crispy flakes re-iterate the crunchiness of the chopped peanuts, but. Corn flake cereal is lightly hand crushed and then folded into the peanut butter mixture before spreading it into the pan to set. Spending the entire day in my pajamas, sleeping in, and selfishly setting aside my normal routine in order to experience the type of instant gratification becoming of a six year old child. A couple of handfuls of crunchy corn flakes are the secret leave-em-guessing ingredient to these no-bake bar cookies. And let me tell you, laziness has its privileges. Some days all I want to do is be completely lazy.
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