Cocoa Krispie Peanut Butter Roll Cookies

Ingredients:

My mom has had this recipe since the early 80s and I've enjoyed it a lot growing up. It's really great because it just uses some simple ingredients that you probably already have sitting in your pantry. It's also a nice change from the Rice Krispie dust blocks that get made so often.

175 ml – 3/4 cup corn syrup
175ml – 3/4 cup granulated sugar
175ml – 3/4cup peanut butter
30ml – 2tbsp butter
1125ml – 4 1/2 cups rice Krispies cereal
75ml – 1/3 cup butter
30ml – 2tbsp milk
350ml - 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
150ml – 2/3 cup cocoa

Step 1:

Ok let’s get the corn syrup and the granulated sugar into a pot on medium heat.

Step 2:

Keep stirring while the sugar dissolves and JUST starts to bubble, I say JUST because you do not want this to boil, if you do it will later turn to rock and you will break all your knives and carve up your counter. This probably has to do with the whole science behind candy making and actual temperatures, but all I know is to not let it boil.

Step 3:

JUST after it starts to bubble kill the heat and add the peanut butter and 2tlbs of unsalted butter. Stir together until all the Peanut butter and butter has melted and your mixture is nice and smooth. You may have to move the pot back to the cooling stove burner for a second or two just to get it nice and smooth.

Step 4:

Add in the Rice Krispie cereal about 3/4 cup at a time and mix it together until all the krispies are evenly coated with the sugary butter goodness.

Step 5:

Nice and gooey:

Step 6:

While still pretty warm dump the whole lot out onto some parchment or wax paper.

Step 7:

Press it out into a rectangle shape until you have an even thickness of about 1/4' inch. Just make sure there are no holes or any overly thin parts.

Step 8:

Now we turn our attention to the chocolate filling (everything is better with chocolate filling). Put the 1/3 cup butter into a clean pot with just a splash of milk.

Step 9:

Melt the butter and sift in the icing sugar and cocoa (I just whisked it in because I don't have a strainer or a swifter so mine's a little lumpy)

Step 10:

Stir that all together until you get a nice preamble paste.

Step 11:

Bring it over to your Rice Krispie rectangle, and spread it evenly across the top.

Step 12:

After all that it should be firm enough to start rolling. Start at the short end and start rolling fairly tightly inwards. If it starts to crumble apart on you just let it sit at room temperature for a bit longer and try again.

Step 13:

Roll it all the way up until you have a nice round log, wrap that up with the parchment paper and chuck it into the fridge for at least 1.5 hours.

Step 14:

After it's firmed up in the fridge take it out and start chopping! I like to use an electric knife for this because it can be pretty sticky and tough. You can slice into what ever thickness you like, but I warn these are very rich and sweet so you may want thinner rather then thicker.

Step 15:

There we go, mow down on the end pieces and store in single layers separated by paper so they don't stick in a container of some sort. I like to keep them at room temp so they are nice and chewy.