Healthy Chocolate Rice Crispy Treats

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Your favorite sticky cereal snack but CHOCOLATE, and made with Medjool Dates instead of marshmallows for a healthier rice crispy treat!

How To Make Medjool Date Rice Crispy Treats

Here’s the simple secret to avoiding soggy fruit-sweetened cereal treats: don’t add water (or almond milk or applesauce or any water based ingredients). So that means we can’t blend up date paste as usual, we have to get a little more creative…

Chocolate Rice Crispy Treat Ingredients

Medjool Dates. Our “marshmallows” so to speak, but MUCH more healthy and wholesome than that. With only natural sugars, lots of fiber, extra potassium, and of course their delicious gooey sweet flavor. Natural Delights is my go-to brand, has been for forever, their quality and taste never let me down no matter what I’m making.
Almond butter. And that is how you make date paste without water and rice crispy treats without refined sugar that are still CRISPY. Other nut or seed butters will be fine too, a natural runny variety is best (if its too thick try 1/2 cup nut butter + 1/4 cup coconut oil)
Brown rice cereal. Or regular rice cereal, just make sure its TOASTED not puffed.
Cocoa powder. Annnnnnnd things start getting decadent, fam.
Vanilla extract and salt.
Dark chocolate chips. Can you simply make the bars, press into a pan, freeze, and eat? Yes. But is it more delicious to melt down dark chocolate chips, stir some into the cereal mix, spread the rest on top of the bars, and make this a much much more chocolatey rice crispy treat situation? Big time YES.

Step By Cereal Treat Step

Step 1: Blend pitted (or buy them that way!) Medjool Dates, almond butter, and vanilla. I recommend a food processor, but a blender will work too as long as you stop and scrape down the sides frequently. You want it to be mostly smooth, a few small chunks are okay.

Step 2: Mix the cereal with the cocoa powder and salt. Add the sticky paste to the chocolatey cereal and mix. Hands are highly recommended for this part.

Step 3: Melt the chocolate and mix half with the cereal. Press this sticky stuff into a pan, REALLY pack it in firmly.

Step 4: Spread the remaining chocolate in a thin dainty little layer on top of the bars. Refrigerate 4-6 hours if you’re patient, freeze for 2-3 hours if you’re not.

Step 5: Eat. Enjoy. Fall in love.

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