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Sneaky Snack Bars

Published by Today's Parent on 3/1/2010
Whip up a batch of these deceptively delicious squares and pop 'em into your kids' lunch boxes for a nutritious, sweet treat!
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flickr/Sean Ryan
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Ingredients

  • 4 cups (1 L) MultiGrain Cheerios
  • 4 cups (1 L) whole-grain cereal flakes (we used Nature's Path Organic Heritage Heirloom Whole Grains)
  • 1 1/2 cups (375 mL) dried cranberries
  • 1 cup (250 mL) coarsely chopped dried apricots (about 20)
  • 1/2 cup (125 mL) sweetened fancy flake coconut (optional)
  • 1/4 cup (50 mL) butter
  • 400 g pkg jumbo marshmallows (about 45)

Directions

  1. Coat a 9 x 13 in (3 L) baking pan with cooking spray or line with parchment paper. In a very large bowl, mix both types of cereal with cranberries, apricots, and coconut, if using.
  2. Melt butter in a large wide saucepan or Dutch oven set over medium-low heat. Add marshmallows and stir constantly, until melted and evenly combined, 6-10 minutes. (Prevent a sticky situation by lightly coating a wooden spoon with cooking spray or oil before stirring.)
  3. Turn off heat, but leave saucepan on burner. Add cereal mixture and stir vigorously to combine. There's a lot to mix, so dig deep. Turn mixture into pan and, using a spatula sprayed with cooking oil, smooth the surface and press down to pack. Cool until firm, at least 2 hours. Remove from pan and cut into squares.
  4. Makes 24 squares.
  5. In 1 square: 152 calories, 1.8 g protein, 2.5 g fat, 28 g carbohydrates
  6. Mix and match: Raid the bulk bin at your grocery store and add other goodies, such as chopped toasted almonds or walnuts (if there are no allergy concerns), green pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds, slivered dried figs, golden raisins, dried berries or chopped dried pineapple.

Sorry, there is no nutrition information available for this recipe.

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