Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars

Original Poster: I Bake He Shoots

I had first seen this recipe a few weeks ago now and thought it looked amazing. I'm not sure how I stumbled across it but I bookmarked it as soon as I did cause I knew I would have to try it out at some point. I made these just yesterday and tried them this morning...maybe, possibly for breakfast.. but they were amazing! Very sweet! I really like the creamy peanut butter taste mixed with the crunchy Rice Krispies texture. Then of course the chocolate on top is just amazing too. The best thing about it is that it's SUPER simple to make!

Ingredients: 
2 cups Rice Krispies cereal
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
2 cups confectioners sugar
1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp. vegan butter melted and divided
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup non-dairy semi-sweet chocolate

Directions:
1. Butter an 8x8 pan and line it with parchment paper that hangs over the edge of the pan just a little bit. I used non-stick foil because that's what I had on hand. This also worked fine.
2. In a large bowl, combine the cereal, confectioners sugar, peanut butter, vanilla and 1/2 cup melted butter.
3. Press mixture into prepared pan. Make it as flat as possible.
4. Melt chocolate. Microwave in 30 second increments, stirring and repeating  until chocolate is completely melted.

5. Add in your remaining 2 Tbsp. of melted butter to your melted chocolate. Mix together well.
6. Spread chocolate mixture over the peanut butter mixture.
7. Place in refrigerator for at least an hour until set. I left mine in overnight and it was perfect the next morning.

Product Review: Don't Be Piggy Meatless Sausage Patties

I thought I would mix the blog up and start doing some product reviews as well as recipes. I love trying new vegan products and to be honest, on the weeks when I'm not feeling well and am not really doing much cooking for myself, it will be much easier to keep up with posts! So here we go, my first product review - if you've tried this yourself, please let me know what you think of it!

Last weekend my husband and I went to Wegmans for the very first time. It reminded me a lot of Whole Foods, which I love so I was excited to see what all they had to offer. I actually saw this towards the end of our grocery trip - and I'm glad I did. I've tried many brands of vegan sausage patties, and to be honest, they're all pretty good to me. I'm not super picky. If it tastes any way close to the real thing, I will eat it! I've had the Gardein brand of sausage patties when they first came out and I think these taste very similar.. and they DO taste very close to real sausage. I didn't even know Wegmans had their own brand of things like this but I would definitely recommend trying them out if you have a store near you. I saw that they also had a 'Don't Be Chicken' and 'Don't Have a Cow' theme too. So there are more meatless options to try out if you are interested!

This is how I like to incorporate the patties into my breakfast: in a sandwich! I just toasted some bread, heated up the patty, some tofu scramble that I already had made, and added a little vegan mozzarella cheese! It made me think of a local restaurant I used to go to where I got egg sandwiches almost weekly for breakfast. However, this is much much better AND cruelty free. There's nothing better than that!