Gluten-Free Chocolate Caramel Crisp Bars

These delicious chocolate bars blend creamy caramel, rich chocolate, and a crisp wafer perfectly. Yum!

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 24
• Yields: 24 bars

Ingredients

• 2  cups  crisp rice cereal
• 3⁄4 cup  sweet rice flour
• 1⁄3 cup potato starch
• 1⁄4 cup  light stoneground buckwheat flour
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 cup butter or 1⁄4 cup margarine, softened
• 1⁄4 cup  firmly-packed brown sugar
• 1  egg white, lightly beaten
• 30  caramels, unwrapped
• 3  tablespoons milk
• 2⁄3 cup  semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted

Directions

1. Stir together cereal, flour, baking soda and salt.
2. In mixing bowl, blend butter and sugar.
3. Stir in cereal mixture until thoroughly combined and crumbly.
4. Press half of mixture into bottom of greased 9" square baking pan.
5. Brush with egg white in order to prevent the wafer from getting soggy.
6. Bake in a preheated 350° oven for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned.
7. Meanwhile, melt caramels with milk in saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently until smooth; set aside.
8. Spread caramel evenly over cereal layer and let cool.
9. Drizzle chocolate overtop of bars, or coat bars completely.
10. Cut into bars once chocolate has hardened.
11. Enjoy!