Scotcheroos

Let’s start our day (and week) with some dessert!  Scotcheroos are basically sugary-sweet Rice Krispies treats (sans marshmallows) that got hit with a jar of peanut butter and a layer of chocolate and butterscotch.  Less ooey-gooey, more soft and chewy, these are addictive!

I can and will eat a huge piece of these, enough to make me feel sick, and still go back for more.  Much like my approach to puppy chow.  Most of the recipes I see for cereal bars never call for making enough of the filling (or glue?  I don’t know which word describes it better) to make the bars soft enough for my taste.  I hate biting into a bar like this and ending up with a big dry mouthful of cereal.  I always increase the glue part, testing the recipes until I find just the right balance.

Remember a while back when I told you that Scotcheroos are one of my Achilles heel in the kitchen?  Every time I tried to make them, the filling would set up into a caramel hard enough to pull a jaw muscle and crack your teeth.  The key is to bring the mixture just to a boil to dissolve the sugar and immediately remove from the heat.  Overcooking this will make you very, very sad.  Mondays are hard enough already.

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