Sweet and Salty Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars
O snap! These Sweet & Salty Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars are the bomb! Addicting and delicious! Come to Mama!!
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Ingredients
Sweet & Salty Rice Krispy Layer
- 5 cups Rice Krispies
- ½ cup broken salted pretzels do not crush up, and reserve ¼ cup for top
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 10 ounces marshmallows depending on how gooey you want them, plus 1 to 2 cups more
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
Sweet and Salty Chocolate-Peanut Butter Layer
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoon creamy peanut butter
Toppings
- ¼ cup pretzels
- ¼ cup mini Reese's Pieces
- Sprinkles
- Sea Salt
Instructions
Sweet & Salty Rice Krispy Layer
- Lightly grease a 9 by 13-inch pan or baking dish and set aside.
- Pour the cereal in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the marshmallows and peanut butter, stirring constantly until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour the marshmallow mixture over the cereal in the large mixing bowl. Stir to combine and add pretzels to mixture and incorporate.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan and press it evenly into the pan.
Sweet and Salty Chocolate-Peanut Butter Layer
- In a microwavable bowl, microwave the chocolate chips and peanut butter together in 20-30 second intervals stirring in between each interval. (A minute and a half is what it is usually is for my microwave.)
- Pour and spread evenly on rice krispy layer.
- Sprinkle pretzels, mini Reese's Pieces, sprinkles and several grinds of sea salt on top of chocolate.
- Let cool completely before cutting into squares.