Salted Nut-Roll Bars

My family likes peanut butter cookies and rice krispies treats, this is a nice combo of them.

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Yields: 28 bars

Ingredients

• 1  lb  peanut butter sandwich cookie, coarsley crumbled
• 1⁄2 cup butter, melted

• TOPPING

• 2  cups  peanut butter chips
• 2⁄3 cup light corn syrup
• 4  tablespoons butter
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2  cups mini marshmallows
• 2  cups  dry roasted peanuts
• 2  cups  crisp rice cereal

Directions

1. -Preheat oven to 350 F; coat a 13x9-inch baking pan with nonstick spray.
2. -Pulverize cookies in a food processor until fine crumbs form. Add melted butter; process until crumbs clump together. Press crumbs into prepared pan. Bake 15 minutes or until golden.
3. -Melt peanut butter chips, corn syrup, butter, and vanilla in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring until smooth, about 5 minutes. Spread 1/2 cup of the peanut minture over crumb base.
4. -Top with marshmallows and return bars to the oven. Bake until marshmallows puff, about 2 minutes, then remove from oven. Don't let marshmallows brown or they'll turn crunchy.
5. -Toss peanuts and cereal with remaining peanut mixture to coat. Drop spoonsful of the topping over the marshmallows, then spread with a spatula (sprayed with nonstick coating). cool bars before cutting with a knife coated with nonstick spray.