These quick and easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups are made with only 5 healthy ingredients: Cheerios cereal, dark chocolate, organic coconut oil, peanut butter and organic brown rice syrup.
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups
Need a quick and healthy dessert or snack? Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups are easy and healthy snack for kids and adults and perfect breakfast to grab and go on busy mornings.
These Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups are completely no bake and could be made in 15 minutes or less. Actually, you don’t even have to wait for a few hours until they firm in the fridge. You can simply place them in the freezer for 15 minutes and in 30 minutes of total time your dessert or snack is ready to be served.
For these Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups you’ll need only 5 ingredients: chocolate, peanut butter, coconut oil, cereals and organic brown rice syrup or honey.
However, you can use ingredients you have on hands. You can use dark or semi-sweet chocolate. Dark chocolate is loaded with nutrients that can improve your health and lower the risk of heart disease. It’s one of the best sources of antioxidants and can positively affect your health.
Coconut oil compared to many other fats could be good for heart health, too. But, if you don’t have it on hand, you can substitute it with butter.
Organic brown rice syrup or honey are the best sweeteners that can replaced high fructose corn syrup. You can use your favorite sticky sweetener in this recipe.
And the last, but not the least ingredient are cereals. I used Cheerios made from whole grain oats, and without artificial flavors or colors. Cheerios adds perfect crunch without getting soggy. If you have another cereal that can do that, go ahead and use it for this recipe.
How To Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups is super simple and easy and can be completely done in half and hour with chilling time included!
Melt dark chocolate with coconut oil and stir in Cheerios.
In another bowl melt peanut butter, brown rice syrup and coconut oil, then stir in cereals. Drop a spoonful of chocolate and peanut butte mixture in silicone mold and freeze for 15-20 minutes or until firm. Pop them out from the mold and enjoy!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups
Prep Time: 10 minutes- Total Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 12 cups 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Fridge
Cuisine: American
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These quick and easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios Cups are made with only 5 healthy ingredients: Cheerios cereal, dark chocolate, organic coconut oil, peanut butter and organic brown rice syrup.
Ingredients
Chocolate Cheerios:
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (or 6.5 oz. dark chocolate-finely chopped)
- 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 ¼ cup Cheerios
Peanut Butter Cheerios:
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 3 Tablespoons organic brown rice syrup
- 3 Tablespoons organic coconut oil
- 1 ¼ cup Cheerios
Instructions
- Spray 12 cup silicon muffin pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a heat proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water combine dark chocolate and 2 Tbsp. of coconut oil. Stir until it’s completely melted and smooth. Remove from heat and stir in Cheerios. (optionally you can melt the chocolate and coconut oil in the microwave or in a sauce pan over low heat)
- In another heath proof bowl over a pan of simmering water combine peanut butter, dark corn syrup and coconut oil. Stir until it’s completely melted and smooth. (optionally you can melt peanut butter, rice syrup and coconut oil in the microwave or in a sauce pan over low heat) Remove from heat and stir in Cheerios.
- Cool both mixture to a room temperature stirring occasionally.
- To assemble the cups, alternately drop spoonful of chocolate and peanut butter Cheerios in prepared pan. Tap the pan onto working surface to help the mixture to set.
- Chill in the fridge or freezer until firm. Remove from the mold and store in and air-tight container in the fridge.
29 comments
Oh, my… This is even better than granola cups! Sounds and looks super delicious. 🙂 I like these quick and easy recipes because I don’t like to spend so much time in the kitchen. This is why I try to make every meal as quick as possible. 🙂
I substituted the coconut oil with butter. It didn’t melt well with the chocolate. Did great for the peanut butter tho. Hoping it tastes as good as it should.
Where is the recipe?
These went together really easily. Most of the ingredients were already in my kitchen. I used Adams natural chunky peanut butter. It didn’t melt as smooth as yours appeared to. Still, the taste is perfect, husband loved them. This recipe is a keeper for sure!
Thanks!
Thanks Sarah!
What can you use instead of brown rice syrup and how much .
Hi Lucy, you can use honey in same amount
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Hi what could i substitute brown rice syrup for ? Thank You .
Yo can use honey.
These were delish! How did you get the bottom looking so nice and firm? Mine came out not looking so solidify? Could it be since I used muffin tinsel? Otherwise it was delicious!! Thank u!
Can you use Sunbutter (sunflower butter) instead of peanut butter?
I planned on trying it with sunbutter since my little cannot have peanut butter and he loves sunbutter.
Would these be ok made in cupcake wrappers for give away treat? Would they come out of the wrapper well? Or do you have to use a silicone muffin pan?
Has anyone tried with cupcake liners? No silicone pan here
I made it with cupcake liners and sprayed them with cooking spray first. It turned out great and even left the little Reese’s peanut butter cups ridges!
Absolutely delicious for a “healthy” snack! I substituted 3 tablespoons of pure honey for the brown rice syrup and used organic peanut butter with two tablespoons of coconut oil in the peanut butter part instead of three!
I love this. I used honey instead of rice syrup. Didn’t have silicone muffin pan so I used cupcake liners! Yummy
Do they have to be refrigerated?
Hi Katie, keep them in the fridge.
I was curious if anyone knew a good substitute for the coconut oil ( unfortunately I’m allergic to everything coconut ?) I’m afraid to use like olive oil because typically when you add oil the chocolate doesn’t stay hardened is it ok to just not add the oil at all?
This is a wonderful recipe. Thank you.
I did add more cheerios to both the chocolate & peanut butter mixtures. Absolutely delicious!👍☮️
What are the calories, they look so good
Does anyone know the nutritional value?
The recipe mentioned using butter instead.
IS THERE AN ATERNATIVE TO COCONUT OIL? i AM HIGHLY ALLERGIC TO COCONUT AND COCONUT OIL…
Hi, you can use melted butter.
Wonder if you could Nutella o stead of peanutbutter