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    Home » Weight Watcher Recipes

    Weight Watchers No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars

    Published: Jul 7, 2016 · Modified: Oct 10, 2022 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 26 Comments

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    Weight Watchers No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars

    These peanut butter cheerio bars are easy and quick to make. Kids will love them for after school snack. You will love them because there is no oven involved and they are no bake! 

    Have you ever had scotcheroos before? These kind of remind me of them but they are made with Cheerios instead of Rice Krispies. To make these more Weight Watcher friendly, I reduced the amount of sugar being used. Whenever I bake, I like to use real sugar instead of substitutes. Once, I tried making peanut butter cookies with Stevia and those turned out really bad! Hope you enjoy!

    INGREDIENTS

    • 1 cup of peanut butter - use creamy natural peanut butter 
    • 2 teaspoon of vanilla extract - As Ina Garten always says use a good pure vanilla extract. No imitation vanilla please! Vanilla extract is made by combing vodka and fresh vanilla beans to a glass jar. This has to sit for a couple of days for the vodka to smart smelling
    • 1 cup of peanuts - salted or unsalted 
    • 5 cups of Cheerios cereal or peanut butter Cheerios
    • ½ cup of white sugar - I have not tried using a sugar substitute for these but some readers below have. 
    • ½ cup of corn syrup
    • 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder(optional)
    • 2 tablespoons of mini chocolate chips (optional)

    How to Make Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars 

    1. IIn a medium saucepan mix together white sugar and light corn syrup. Bring to a boil. Add peanut butter, vanilla and protein powder. Mix until smooth.
    2. Place peanut butter Cheerios and peanuts in a large mixing bowl. Pour peanut butter mixture over Cheerios and peanuts. Stir until combined.
    3. Spread Cheerio mixture in a 9 x 13 inch pan that has been greased with non-stick cooking spray.
    4. Cut into 20 pieces. Serving Size: 1 bar

    Peanut Butter Cheerio Bar Tips: 

    Add some parchment paper to the pan to help easily get the bars out of the pan. Or you can spray the pan with non stick cooking spray. 

    Melt the sugar, corn syrup, and peanut butter on low heat. If stove burner is on too high the recipe might not work out properly. 

    Can I use something else other than cheerios? Instead of Cheerios you can use cornflakes, Reese’s puffs, or Rice Crispy bars. These Cheerio bars kind of remind me of Scotcheroos which are made of Rice Krispies.

    Weight Watchers No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars

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    Weight Watchers No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars


    • Author: Jenna
    • Prep Time: 7 min
    • Cook Time: 0 min
    • Total Time: 7 minutes
    • Yield: 20 1x
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    Ingredients

    • 1 cup of peanut butter
    • 2 tsp of vanilla extract
    • 1 cup of peanuts
    • 5 cups of Cheerios cereal or peanut butte r Cheerios
    • ½ cup of white sugar
    • ½ cup of corn syrup
    • 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder(optional)
    • 2 tablespoons of mini chocolate chips (optional)

    Instructions

    1. In a medium saucepan mix together white sugar and light corn syrup. Bring to a boil. Add peanut butter, vanilla and protein powder. Mix until smooth.
    2. Place peanut butter Cheerios and peanuts in a large mixing bowl. Pour peanut butter mixture over Cheerios and peanuts. Stir until combined.
    3. Spread Cheerio mixture in a 9 x 13 inch pan that has been greased with non-stick cooking spray.
    4. Cut into 20 pieces. Serving Size: 1 bar 

    Notes

    myWW points: Blue: 8; Green8;  Purple 8

    Personal Points: 8 

    Points Plus: 4 (old plan) 

    I used mini chocolate chips for garnish. Not included in nutrition info.

    WW points are calculated using the recipe builder and not the nutrition info calculator. The nutrition calculator doesn’t calculate 0 point foods correctly.

    • Category: Easy
    • Method: No Bake
    • Cuisine: American

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: 1
    • Calories: 152
    • Sugar: 11
    • Fat: 7
    • Saturated Fat: 1
    • Carbohydrates: 19
    • Protein: 5

    Keywords: peanut butter cheerio bars

    Did you make this recipe?

    Tag @recipediariesww on Instagram

    I am not affiliated with WW formerly known as Weight Watchers in any way. I am just a member who likes to create WW recipes and share them with everyone. Freestyle is the name of the current program of WW and smart points are calculated for the recipes. Some blogs list them as freestyle smart points and some list them as smart points. There is no difference between the 2.

    WW new FREESTYLE program uses sugar to figure out their points system now and these bars didn't use to be high in points on older plans. Some people are under the assumption that this isn't a WW recipe.

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    Comments

    1. Linnie says

      March 24, 2018 at 7:50 pm

      Hi - since white sugar isn't vegan, could I use beet sugar instead? Have you tried that?

    2. Jenna says

      February 06, 2018 at 3:15 pm

      The points are already updated...

    3. Tara says

      February 05, 2018 at 10:40 pm

      What would the points be for the new system?

    4. Monica says

      January 14, 2018 at 5:56 pm

      My bars fell apart when cutting them. Was I supposed to let them cool first?

    5. Jenna says

      November 19, 2017 at 2:54 pm

      I'm sure you can but I don't know the ratio. Sorry I was no help.

    6. Courtney says

      November 19, 2017 at 7:48 am

      Could honey be sued in place of corn syrup?

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