Homemade Cereal Bars

This morning my son and I argued over whether he was having egg, cereal or marshmallows for breakfast LOL. So I prepped the pan with butter to make the eggs. My newborn started to cry so I went to go get her. By the time I was back my DS had put 1/2 of a bag of marshmallows in the buttered pan. Instead of getting mad, I just laughed. He really wanted marshmallows for breakfast I guess. So this is what I came up with to compromise the whole ordeal (I'll remember next time to put the marshmallows on the top shelf though :) ).

• Ready In: 25 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 16 bars

Ingredients

• 12  ounces  Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, with almonds
• 4  teaspoons butter
• 5  ounces marshmallows
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1  teaspoon instant mocha-flavored coffee powder

Directions

1. Melt the butter in a sauce pan on med heat. While it is melting, be sure to coat the side of the pan with the butter (it makes for easier clean up).
2. Next dump the marshmallows in the pan, constantly stirring until they are half way melted. Then mix in vanilla and instant mocha mix. Continue stirring until it forms a marshmallow sauce.
3. Turn heat down to low and dump in the cereal. Mix very well making sure to coat all pieces of cereal.
4. Spray a 9x13-inch pan with nonstick spray and dump mixture in to pan.
5. Take a piece of foil or wax paper and spray it with nonstick spray and push cereal down as tightly and flat as you can.
6. Let set 20 minutes, then cut and enjoy.