This is basically the easiest treat I know how to make, and it's got a super simple ingredient list too. The worst thing is the chocolate, but that's at the end and I promise you, we'll work through this together. I know that bars aren't exactly tea-party material, especially with all this goddamn sugar in it, but damn friends, it's a really nice and comforting food to keep around. The midwest may have failed us in this election, but they sure know how to make food in a casserole dish.
You will need:
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 - 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
6 cups corn flakes (or Special K if you're into that shit)
1/2 c chocolate chips (I favor milk chocolate)
1/2 c butterscotch chips
In a really big microwaveable bowl, dump your peanut butter, sugar, and corn syrup. Now microwave that shit, thirty seconds at a time, stirring each time until it doesn't seem grainy. Add your corn flakes a cup at a time, stirring carefully. You don't want to break that shit up! Try to make sure that all the flakes get covered in that teeth-rotting deliciousness.
Scrape it all into a 13 x 9 cake pan or casserole dish, and pat it out to relative flatness. While this is cooling a bit on your COUNTERTOP (DO NOT PUT THIS IN A FRIDGE YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CUT IT), melt your chocolate and butterscotch together.
Let's talk about this now. If you have a double boiler and you know your shit, you are already spades ahead of me because I don't remember any of that shit. I melt it in a decent-sized (ie: lots of stirring room) bowl in the microwave. I microwave on a very low temp for short bursts, stirring frequently. Do NOT get water in your chocolate. Do NOT heat it too quickly, or on too high a heat. This is a slow operation that requires a lot of patience.
If your chocolate does seize up (starts to look dry and unappetizing) DON'T PANIC! Add a little bit of vegetable oil slowly and stir it in with the chocolate slowly. It'll help rehydrate the chocolate (which is very very dry).
Once you have melted chocolate, spread it over the peanut butter mass. Try to spread it nice and even, but perfection won't happen. Let that shit cool too (All the way. Half-melted chocolate is not good eats). Cut it into smallish bars with a sharp knife and double check the date on that dental appointment.
Fun Princess Fact: Most recipes call for double the chocolate I do, but I think that is just waaaay too much. If you're into that though, shit is the same, just use a cup of chocolate chips and a cup of buttersccotch chips.
