Even though I am not very old, these rice crispy treats brought me back to when I was younger. I would always have a delicious rice crispy treat for a snack. Quite honestly, I forgot how much I really love rice crispy treats.

About a month ago when I was at Whole Foods I grabbed some brown rice syrup and brown rice cereal. I intended to make some rice crispy treats that weekend. Well I never got around to it. I looked in my pantry and saw that I had the ingredients. I no doubt had to make some. 

These are not your typical refined sugar filled and no nutritional value rice crispy treats. The brown rice syrup was a perfect alternative to marshmallow. These actually turned out much better than I had expected.

To give them a little extra nutritional boost, I added a scoop of Musclepharm vanilla casein protein. You could use regular whey protein, or completely omit if you don’t want it.

To top it off with a little extra flavor, I had to add some melted chocolate. I used sugar free milk chocolate from Amber Lyn Chocolates. This milk chocolate is seriously awesome. It added the perfect touch to the peanut butter flavored rice crispy.

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