Aunt Agnes' Chewies
"Crunchy, peanut buttery treats from the late, great Aunt Agnes (aka Bad Aggie)."
photo by Bekah49036
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Yields:
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24 squares
ingredients
- 7 cups Special K cereal
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup Karo syrup (corn)
- 1 cup peanut butter
directions
- Bring sugar and Karo syrup to a boil in a saucepan.
- Add peanut butter and stir until it melts into the mixture.
- Pour over the cereal in a large bowl and mix.
- Spread the sticky mixture in a cake pan or casserole dish and let sit 5-10 minutes.
- Cut into squares and serve.
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Reviews
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I'm so happy I found this recipe! When I was pregnant, all I would eat for breakfast was Special K. My son is now 6 months old and I still probably have 4 family size boxes left. I'm so excited I found a way to use them up! These turned out great. They have a similar texture to rice crispy treats but are a nice change. I drizzled some chocolate syrup on the top to make them look pretty but it just sank to the bottom of the pan (not a good idea, lol). I will be making many batches of these in the near future. Thank you! -
These were so yummy! I tweaked a little - had rice crispies and figured they were similar enough. Like my mother, Agnes would have, I used every last bit of my jars of regular and chunky peanut butter and got just shy of 1 cup. For some reason, we didn't notice the chunks in the final product. Thanks, Foxgirl AND Aunt Agnes!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Foxgirl
Lancaster, PA
I'm an amateur foodie who loves to cook, something I only discovered in my mid-twenties. I never felt I had an aptitude for it, but when I started experimenting in the kitchen, I soon found I couldn't stop! Both of my parents cook--my father's background is Pennsylvania Dutch, and he (like his own father before him) makes huge pots of soups and stews that are "vonderful good." My mom is from the Deep South, and brought me up to use the Louisiana "Holy Trinity" of bell peppers, onions and celery in just about everything ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_trinity_(cuisine) ).
I have a very adventurous palate and one of my favourite kinds of food is Middle Eastern. For two years, I kept to a vegetarian diet--I don't anymore, but I still don't eat a great deal of meat, especially if it isn't fish or poultry.
UPDATE: I'm back on a largely vegetarian kick, supplemented every now and then by a bit of fish. I've just got a fantastic new blender, also, and I'm making heaps of healthy smoothies at home... all fruit will fall to my whirling blades!
