pin to present: no bake baking

What to do when (a) you've accidentally purchased a huge jar of crunchy peanut butter rather than the creamy variety your family prefers and (b) you want to make a dessert but it's super hot out? Unsurprisingly, I turned to Pinterest for the answer, and it gave me easy no bake peanut butter crunch bars.

The photos of these turned out a little less than delicious looking, but I couldn't re-take them, because the bars were all gone! Which means that despite the poor photos, they were too yummy not to share. Here's an example of one of those "healthy" labeled recipes combined with one of those "only 5 ingredients" Pinterest likes to supply. I've had Pinterest fails in this category for sure, but this one works on both counts.

The 5 ingredients are stuff you may well already have in your pantry - rice krispies, peanut butter, chocolate chips, maple syrup, and coconut oil (not sure how that actually translates to "healthy" - I think it really means "not the most unhealthy ever") - and these bars seriously take 5 minutes to make. Just microwave, mix, and mash it all into a pan, and an hour later your bars have set up in the fridge and you're good to go with a crispy/crunchy/sweet treat that got great reviews from adults and kids alike when we hosted friends last week.

So now I know what we're doing with the rest of that big jar of peanut butter (and the box of rice krispies) - unless you have any other great crunchy peanut butter recipe ideas for me?