Chocolate-Cherry Peanut Butter Trail Bars

Chocolate-Cherry Peanut Butter Trail Bars

Makes 6

Adapted from Laurie March’s A Fork in the Trail

1/3 cup honey
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup natural peanut butter
2 cups natural flake cereal
½ cup dried cherries
1/3 cup slivered/crushed almonds
½ a high-quality dark chocolate bar (Green & Black’s Dark 85% passed my criteria)

Heat the honey and brown sugar in a saucepan and simmer one minute (not longer, or bars will be brittle). Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter. Add remaining ingredients and stir to combine well. The chocolate will melt to form a coating.

Coat the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square pan with vegetable oil. Scoop the mixture into the pan and pat down evenly. Freeze for 30 minutes. Transfer the pan contents to a cutting board and allow to return to room temperature, then cut into bars.

*Brown sugar’s degree of processing is debatable, but hey, it’s less processed than regular sugar. Honey would have been even less processed, but the entire honey bear is too damn heavy."

Recipe Courtesy of Simple Food Healthy Life​