These Granola Rice Crispy Treats Are The Answer To Your Mid-Morning Snack Attack

If you never had a rice crispy bar in your lunchbox, you never had a childhood. The sugary treat was what kept us bouncing off the walls all playtime. But as we’ve grown older, our tastebuds have matured and we’ve learnt a whole lot more about the wellness world’s devil’s dandruff, rice crispies are no longer.
If you were feeling nostalgic about that snap-crackle-pop or you never got to enjoy it in the first place, don’t despair. We’ve brought the childhood favourite back to life as a better-for-you bite.
These healthy puffed treats use brown rice instead of white, are sweetened with maple syrup rather than sugar and are combined using coconut oil. Plus, we think we’ve given them an upgrade with the addition of dark chocolate chips and the oh-so-tasty peach and pumpkin seed OatBox granola.
Make these for your work week and who knows, you might just bring back morning tea.

Oatbox Granola Rice Crispies

Preparation: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 30mins | Makes: 8 servings
Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips
• 1 tbsp of coconut oil
• 1/4 cup of maple syrup
• 1/4 cup of almond butter
• 1 1/2 cup of puffed brown rice
• 3/4 cup of Peach & Pumpkin Seed Oatbox Granola
• A pinch of salt

Preparation

1. In a large saucepan, melt the chocolate, coconut oil, maple syrup and almond butter over low heat until the mixture is smooth and uniform.
2. Add the granola, rice and salt and mix well until coated with the mixture.
3. Transfer into a baking mold lined with parchment paper and let cool for 30 minutes before cutting into squares.

Love oats? So do we. Sign up to Oatbox to receive tasty oat products on the regular and experiment with them by making some of these recipes: 

• Donna Hay’s overnight coconut and blueberry oats
• The Fit Foodie’s gingerbread porridge 
• Jessica Sepel’s cacoa and peanut butter porridge