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Here is  a recipe from the Alfaro Family of their popular No Bake Cheerio Bars:

No Bake Cheerio Bars

4 cups Cheerios cereal

2 cups Rice Crispies cereal

2 cups dry roasted peanuts

2 cups M&M’s plain chocolate candies

Mix all of the above together in a LARGE bowl.

1 (+) cup white Karo syrup **

1 cup white sugar

1 ½ cups creamy peanut butter (spray measuring container with oil prior)

1 tsp vanilla extract

In a large sauce pan on top of stove, combine Karo syrup and sugar.  Heat over medium heat until boiling, stirring frequently.  Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat.  Add peanut butter and stir until smooth.  Stir in vanilla extract.  Pour mixture over dry ingredients (minus M&Ms) and stir to coat.  Add M&Ms, stir to coat; (will melt if with dry ingredients).  Spread/press into a greased 10”x15” pan/jelly roll pan.  Cool and cut into bars.

**The recipe calls for one cup of Karo, but I find they are dry and crumbly unless I use a little more.  I have a glass measuring cup (1 cup size) that I fill to the very top – probably ends up being about 1 ¼ cups.  They turn out much better that way.