Peanut Butter-Chocolate Oatmeal Cereal Bars

Prep:15 minutes   Total time :1 hour+25 minutes  Makes  4 dozen

2               cups uncooked quick-cooking oats
1/4            cup firmly  packed brown sugar
3/4            cup all-purpose flour
3/4            cup butter , melted
1               large egg
1               cup light corn syrup
1               cup granulated sugar
1               cup creamy peanut butter
4               cups rice crisp cereal
1               (12 ounces) package  semisweet chocolate morsels
1                cup chopped dry roasted peanuts

1 .       Preheat oven  to 350* . Combine  first 5 ingrefients  in a medium bolw . Press firmly onto the bottom of a lightly greased  15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan . (Mixture  will be thin). Bake  12 minutes  . Let cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes .
2 .       Microwave corn syrup , sugar  and peanut butter  in a large microwave-safe glass bowl  at HIGH 2 minutes  or until melted and smooth , stirring at 30-second interals . Stir in cereal  . Press mixture  firmly  over oat mixture  in pan .
3 .        Microwave  chocolate  and peanut  butter morsels  in a micro-safe glass bowll  at HIGH 2 minutes or until melted and smooth , stirring  at 30 minutes interals  . Spread  over cereal mixture . Sprinkle with chopped peanuts . Cool 45 minutes  . Cut into bars .

Tip : I use  Reeses Peanut Butter Chips and Rice Krispies cereal . Young kids and adults will love these bars .