WIC Approved Holiday Hangover Bars

Name: WIC Approved Holiday Hangover Bars
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 C Cheerios; 1/2 C crushed Xmas cookies; 2 1/2 C leftover baking ingredients (nuts, coconut, dried fruit, caramel chips, chocolate chips); 1/4 C margarine; 1 C brown sugar; 2 tbsp oat flour (or AP); 1/2 C light corn syrup

10 steps

Prep:10min

This recipe is designed to use up all the mostly empty bags of ingredients from your holiday baking. Taking the traditional trail mix bar recipe and customizing it to whatever you have on hand. The secret ingredient is to add crushed Christmas cookies into your mix. The inspiration for this recipe is linked.

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:59:37 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Unbalanced

Glycemic Index

Moderate

Glycemic Load

Low

Nutrition per serving

Calories111.2 kcal (6%)

Total Fat5.8 g (8%)

Carbs14.2 g (5%)

Sugars8.9 g (10%)

Protein2.2 g (4%)

Sodium47.4 mg (2%)

Fiber0.7 g (2%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

36 servings

4 CCheerios

0.5 Ccookies

crushed, Xmas

2.5 Cnuts

leftover, baking ingredients, coconut, dried fruit, caramel chips, chocolate chips

0.25 Cmargarine

1 cbrown sugar

2 Tbspoat flour

or AP

½ clight corn syrup

Instructions

Step 1

Line a 13x9 pan with parchment paper or butter all sides well.

Step 2

Add cheerios to a large bowl.

Step 3

Mix in all the ingredients you intend to add. It doesn’t matter the order or the amount of what you have. This recipe is so you use up the last of all the random dry ingredients you have from baking. So if you have some nuts, a lot of chocolate chips, a bit of dried fruit, a couple m&ms, ect. Doesn’t matter. Just so long as the total of what you add is 2 1/2 C.

Step 4

Add in your crushed Christmas cookies and mix everything together very well. You can leave the cookies coarse or grind into a powder here. If you don’t have leftover cookies you can skip this step. Substitute more of your dry ingredients if desired.

Step 5

In a medium saucepan, heat the butter on medium heat until melted.

Step 6

Add in the brown sugar, flour and corn syrup. Mix well and bring to a boil.

Step 7

Let mixture boil for 1 minute while stirring constantly.

Step 8

Remove pot from heat and pour over your cereal mix. Mix well and quickly!

Step 9

Pour into your prepared pan. Pressing down gently to evenly spread your bars out. Use the bottom of a measuring cup if desired.

Step 10

Let set at room temperature (should take less than 10 minutes). Cut, serve and store.