Oh mylanta, these were divine! Cole and I are starting a lifestyle, diet thing for the next couple months that includes drinking a gallon of water a day (literally the hardest part of this whole thing), exercising every day, limiting our alcohol intake, reading non-fiction every night, and giving up chocolate... yes I'm not sure why I agreed to this...
Anyways, I've been trying to do more desserts without chocolate in them (*sigh*) and peanut butter is my next favorite sweet flavor. I saw these bars on Pinterest that had a layer of marshmallows on top of the peanut filling, but I decided to mix the peanut butter filling with the marshmallows to create a light, fudgy bite. The crust that's made simply with butter and yellow cake mix adds that soft crunch to really hit the texture game out of the park. I was planning to take the rest of these to work to get rid of them, but Cole and I loved these so much, we kept them all for ourselves... and they were gone in about 3 days... so much for that diet...
Servings: 24
Prep Time: 15 min
Total Time: 45 min
INGREDIENTS:
1 box yellow cake mix
1/3 + 1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
3 cups mini marshmallows
2/3 cup light corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla
10 oz bag of peanut butter baking chips
1 1/2 cups puffed rice cereal
1 1/2 cups dry roasted salted peanuts
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom and sides of a 9x13 inch baking dish with parchment paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
Combine cake mix, 1/3 cup butter, and egg until it forms a dough.
Press dough into the bottom of the prepared pan, spreading to all sides and corners.
Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until the top is light golden brown.
Remove from the oven and immediately place mini marshmallows on top of the hot crust, spreading the marshmallows to cover the entire crust. Allow the marshmallows to soften and flatten. If the marshmallows are not getting soft, you can place the baking dish back into the cooling oven for 5 minutes.
Make the peanut topping by, cooking the corn syrup and 1/4 cup butter in a medium size sauce pan over medium heat until the butter is melted.
Remove from heat and add vanilla and peanut butter chips and mix until the peanut butter chips are melted. Add the peanuts and cereal and gently mix until everything is combined.
Place spoonfulls of the hot mixture over the marshmallows and spread out with a knife to the edges. The marshmallows will mix into the peanut mixture and create little pockets of marshmallow.
Allow to cool before removing and slicing!
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