Chunky Chocolate Cheerios

Chunky Chocolate Cheerios

If you want to be the coolest mom in town and get loved immediately by children from every nook and cranny, make this mind-numbingly easy and devilishly good sweet snack. Mind you, you DON’T want to be around when the kids have gobbled up the lot because they’ll be bouncing off the walls. Be crafty. Give it as a “contribution” at a kid’s party whose mother you especially dislike.

Just kidding, just kidding. How can you possibly think I’m capable of doing something like that?! Who me!? Naw…I think I’ll keep quiet now.

Well, all these thoughts passed through my head when I had to deal with the aftermath when Gabriel “helped” in the kitchen.

Chunky Chocolate Cheerios

Chunky Chocolate Cheerios
Makes lots of chocolate chunks, enough for +10 people
Preparation: 15 mins, plus chilling – Cooking: 15 mins
Ingredients
  • butter to grease
  • 200g (7 oz) white chocolate
  • 200g (7 oz) plain chocolate
  • 75g (2½ oz) crunchy peanut butter
  • 75g (2½ oz / 2¼ cups) Nestlé Cheerios
  1. Line a shallow tin with greased baking parchment.
  2. Melt the plain chocolate in a heat proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water, making sure the base of the bowl doesn’t touch the water. Stir until smooth and remove the bowl from the pan.
  3. Melt the white chocolate in the same way and remove from the heat. Add the peanut butter to the white chocolate and stir well until smooth.
  4. Add 33g (1 cup) of Cheerios to the melted dark chocolate and stir thoroughly until all the hoops are covered with chocolate. Add the remaining Cheerios to the melted white chocolate and do the same.
  5. Drop alternate spoonfuls of each chocolate mix into the prepared tin, then tap the tin to level the mixture. Chill for 2-3 hours until firm.
  6. Turn out on to a board and break the chocolate into manageable chunks for people to nibble on. Store in the fridge for up to 1 month.
Alternative

I used silicone muffin/cupcake moulds and divided the mixture evenly which amounted to 9 cupcakes. You don’t need to grease them.

Notes
  • Try and buy good quality chocolate, it can make all the difference in taste.
  • You can double up on the ingredients if you like to serve more people.

Related Posts

  1. White & Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunks
  2. Chocolate Brandy Torte
  3. Chocolate & Coconut Clusters
18 Responses to “Chunky Chocolate Cheerios”

  1. These sound tasty. I love the pic of Gabriel. How adorable.

    by Alta
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  2. What a fun recipe!

    by Cookie
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  3. That is awesome! Great pics.

    by The Duo Dishes
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  4. TOO cute of Gabriel!!! What a wonderful recipe, the kid in me surely would love these :)

    by Jen @ MaplenCornbread
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  5. Just for the record, I would NEVUH feed this junk to my kid. This snack is just too unhealthy. All those trans fats from the peanut butter… its loaded with sugar, did you even think to use organic 70% chocolate? Oh my god- you did not use butter instead of margarine! This is the stuff that’s killing our children and making them obese. That said, I am a food blogger, thus obligated to at least make these in the interest of my craft. BUT just so you understand I will be hiding these away from my kids. My husband and I will eat these late at night when the kids are asleep, only because we …uhhhm ….care about our children. LOL.

    by wizzy
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  6. Love it! What a creative idea!

    by Michelle
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  7. I am eight months pregnant. And you are my savior. :)

    by Meghan
    on 24. Jul, 2009

  8. Oh my! This looks AMAZING! I cant wait to try this!

    by veggiebelly
    on 25. Jul, 2009

  9. These are seriously cute, and I bet seriously good.

    by Cucinista
    on 26. Jul, 2009

  10. Michelle, I love them!
    Thank you for your message, I think it is a great idea :) I will send you email soon…

    Margot

    by Coffee & Vanilla
    on 26. Jul, 2009

  11. Cool recipe…could I use milk choco instead of plain?

    by Emma
    on 26. Jul, 2009

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  13. Love this! Great idea and the photos are wonderful, especially the second one!

    by erin @ dessert girl
    on 27. Jul, 2009

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  15. What a great idea!!! I love it.

    Thank you for posting this beautiful recipe, I liked it so much I’ve included it in my Top funkiest Chocolate recipes on the Web >> http://bit.ly/13bx7w

    Congratulations!! and looking forward to many more fab recipes.

    Love,
    Bridge.

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    on 23. Sep, 2009

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  17. Really cute picture of Gabriel! They must be…delicious :)

    by Thailand Breeze
    on 22. Jan, 2010

  18. Wow…looks amazing! I was just wondering on FaceBook what on earth I’m going to do with the 11 boxes of random cereals I have…this is going to use some of them thank goodness!

    by HappyCampers
    on 11. Jun, 2010

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