Chocolate-Peanut Butter Rice Bites
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 6:45PM 
I was just at my sister's house for a week, mooching off their awesomeness while TA is away for work. My sister happens to make some pretty damn delicious cookies - but this time she seriously surpassed herself.
I don't know how she did it (I'm pretty sure her secret ingredient is crack), but she made the best damn chocolated-chocolate-peanut butter cookies in the entire universe. They were chocolate cookie with chocolate and Reese's peanut butter chips in them. These cookies, disseminated around the world, are so awesome they could stop global warming.
For serious.
Sadly, in addition to my sister's crack-like cookies I always end up drinking too much beer when I go to Florida. As much as I wanted to try and replicate the cookies, after I stood upon my scale-of-doom when I returned home, I decided that I should try and tone down the awesomeness a little bit.
Enter the modified rice crispy treat, made bite size, and less than 40 calories each. Possibly my new favorite sweet treat.
So what's your favorite low-calorie snack?
Chocolate-Peanut Butter Rice Bites
Yields approximately 60 treats
4 tablespoons butter
2 1/2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
10 oz mini marshmallows
5 cups rice cereal
1/4 cup peanut butter chips
non-stick vegetable spray
In a large pot over medium heat melt the butter. Mix in the cocoa powder until thoroughly combined. Melt the marshmallows, stirring constantly, until melded completely. Quickly add the rice cereal and the peanut butter chips, stirring to combine. Spray your hands with the non-stick spray and working quickly roll the mixture into walnut sized balls. The recipe should make about 60 bite size treats.
Nutritional Estimate
This is a nutritional estimate, regard it as such.
1 treat = 1 serving
37 calories
7 g carbohydrates
1 g fat
>1 g protein
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Reader Comments (10)
Ok, these look totally delicious and harmless. Can that be possible? I hope you save some til Friday.
Robin - they look amazing! Yum Yum - Maybe I'll give it a try!!
Haha, I think you're right about the fascists. Chocolate and peanut butter has always been at the top of my list of favorite flavor combinations. That reminds me, I used to have an actual list of combinations I wouldn't want to live in a world without. I ought to consider that again and write out my Top 10.
Now that's a good idea, Brittany. A list of ten flavors you can't live without and ten you wish would fall off the face of the planet. I should try that...
do you think using regular PB instead of PB would work?
Hi Justine - if you're asking if you can substitute peanut butter instead of the peanut butter chips - I'm pretty sure that would work. I'm sure if you were to add a 1/4 cup of peanut butter it wouldn't alter the consistency too much.
this also works great w/ butterscotch chips if you can't get PB ones.
Ok, I got to sample (eat as much as I thought I could get away with). These are AWESOME!
are these based on our no bake cookie recipe? mine never came out in a ball shape though. Now I want to make some.
I wish I could remember the recipe for those no-bake cookies, Mom. I think Manda might have it.
I rolled these by hand while they were still hot. Ow. Although I was pleased to find out that the non-stick spray worked just as well as the butter we used to use when I was little.