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
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
- Line a shallow tin with greased baking parchment.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
These sound tasty. I love the pic of Gabriel. How adorable.
What a fun recipe!
That is awesome! Great pics.
TOO cute of Gabriel!!! What a wonderful recipe, the kid in me surely would love these
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.
Love it! What a creative idea!
I am eight months pregnant. And you are my savior.
Oh my! This looks AMAZING! I cant wait to try this!
These are seriously cute, and I bet seriously good.
Michelle, I love them!
I will send you email soon…
Thank you for your message, I think it is a great idea
Margot
Cool recipe…could I use milk choco instead of plain?
Love this! Great idea and the photos are wonderful, especially the second one!
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.
Really cute picture of Gabriel! They must be…delicious
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!
What a fantastic recipe! My grandkids would just love these.
Almost daily, I ponder making a treat with the Cheerios my children love to nibble. Finally I’ve stumbled upon someone else’s creation, and it sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
I’m allergic to peanut butter… could this work without peanut butter in the white chocolate? (And no… I have yet to find a sunflower butter, etc… that I like)… These looks so good!
This looks amazing! Also I love the picture with chocolate everywhere. So cute!