Chocolate Cereal and Nut Crisps
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I used my favorite cereal to create a heart healthy recipe. These chocolate cereal and nut crisps are filled with oat clusters, muesli, grains and nuts. They are perfect for breakfast and a quick afternoon snack.
Happy Monday!!
I hope you guys had a great weekend. I finally feel back to normal after a week of a miserable cold. I spent the weekend trying to catch up on some baking and house cleaning. We did however have a great Valentine’s day dinner at home on Friday and we went to a comedy show on Saturday which was really fun. What did you guys do this weekend? Anything fun?
Getting back on my feet, I am rebuilding my breakfast for the busy weeks coming up. For me, that means re-fueling with lots of grains, nuts and of course a little bit of chocolate. I created these chocolate cereal and nut crisps using my favorite cereal; Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds. I added in some muesli, my favorite nuts and a few dried fruits I had on hand. I had to add some dark chocolate for a little indulgence.
I love how customizable these crips are. Feel free to substitute your favorite grains in here as well as your favorites nuts. I love pistachios as they always bring a great sweet and salty combo when mixed with chocolate. These chocolate cereal and nut crisps are very filling with the oat clusters from Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, the muesli and all those nuts. They are perfect for breakfast as I enjoyed a few crumbles with some milk and they will also be great for a quick afternoon snack.
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Chocolate Nut and Cereal Crisps
These chocolate cereal and nut crisps are filled with oat clusters, muesli, grains and nuts. They are perfect for breakfast and a quick afternoon snack.
Ingredients
- ½ cup Honey Bunches of Oats with Almond
- ¾ cup muesli
- ½ cup shelled unsalted pistachios, chopped
- ½ cup dried banana chips, chopped
- ⅓ cup hazelnuts, chopped
- ⅓ cup dried apricots, chopped (optional; any dried fruit will work)
- 8 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped (70% Cacoa)
- ⅛ teaspoon fine sea salt
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, whisk together cereal, muesli, pistachios, banana chips, hazelnuts and apricots.
- In a small heal proof bowl, melt chocolate over a double boiler. Add in salt and stir until chocolate is smooth.
- Pour chocolate over dry ingredients and mix to combine.
- Spread onto prepare baking sheet and push together to form a large ½-inch thick bar. Allow to cool at room temperature for about an hour and then chill for 30 minutes or more until chocolate hardens. Cut into pieces. Store refrigerated in an airtight container.
Honey bunches of oats has always been my favorite cereal!! I love that with these breakfast crisps you get a little bit of indulgence with a whole lot of health!
Thanks Joanne!!
I love pistachios and the extra crunch of the cereal looks perfect! I have a snack addiction and would love to munch on a bunch of these.
I have a snack addiction too! Doesn’t help that I am at my desk most of the day lol! Thanks dear!
I love this snack Zainab, I can’t wait to try it!
Thanks Emily! It is very addicting 🙂
This is such a great way to use up some left over cereal that we just can’t seem to finish!
I agree!! That last cup can be thrown in here 🙂
Pistachios are probably one of my favorite nuts and it is always underutilized. How easily adaptable to include favorite nuts and dried fruits. Wearing my “mom hat” now but I know my children would love to have a little nibble of these included in their lunchbox.
So true. I wish I used pistachios more often. Love that they are always a great salty balance to sweets. And I always love your mom hat. I’m learning so much from you 🙂
Glad to hear you’re feeling better my friend! These snacks do look delicious, and I love how they’re so healthy too. Perfect afternoon pick me up, of course!! :—)
Thanks Consuelo!! Life is getting back on track although I am feeling the unmotivated bug these days lol!
This sounds delicious! I love how nutty they are, nice and crispy 🙂
Thanks Lyuba!
These look delicious – what an awesome combination of crunchy goodness. I love pistachios in anything! Pinning! xo
Thanks Claire!! I’m in love with pistachios too. having it in something pretty much guarantees I will devour it. Hope you are having a great start to the week. PS: I cannot stop thinking and laughing at that party!! You are a genius 🙂
Yum yum yum yummy girl!!! That’s all I can seriously muster up!
Hahhah thanks Jocelyn 🙂
Looks so delicious! You have me at dark chocolate.
Thanks!! Dark chocolate always does it for me too 🙂
I love this idea Zainab 🙂 – looks very appetising. Honey Bunches of Oats is such a yummy cereal too :).
Thanks Jessica!!
These look delicious! I just so happen to have some of this cereal lying around! My weeknd consisted of taking care of sick kiddos! Hope you are feeling better!
Oh my gossshhhhhh. I love these!!! What a great recipe! I had fun working with Post cereals this week — so many creative possibilities!
Is it bad that I have never tried Honey Bunches of Oats? :/ But now I can try them with the discount. I NEED to try it with this recipe too! These look so delicious and yet so healthy! The chocoalte, the oats… love it. Seriously girl, the stuff you whip up is always so impressive! And I am glad you’re feeling better! 🙂
Wow, I want breakfast at your house Zainab! Those look delicious, I never would have thought combination. 🙂
Dear Zainab, These are a wonderful treat. I know I would not be able to stop eating them though. I would keep taking just one more piece!!
Beautiful. Blessings dear. Catherine xo
This looks like one delicious snack…or breakfast considering there’s plenty of healthy items in them! A little chocolate doesn’t scare me in the morning. haha 🙂
So glad to hear you are starting to feel better and had a nice time celebrating VDay:) This looks like an awesome snack Zainab, we love pistachios and always have them on hand and I love the melted chocolate and added crunch from the cereal!
Wow! Love all the flavors in this Zainab, sounds like the perfect way to start day or a great snack mid-day! Definite winner, pinned. 🙂
I love that you’ve incorporated healthy and delicious all into one recipe!
I wonder how I can make this gluten free….hmmmmm. 😉
Girl! Both of us were down all last week with a demon cold/flu. I was miserable! (Even had to postpone our V-Day celebration to this weekend.) So sorry to hear you were under the weather, too. 🙁 Hope you’re feeling better. I just adore chocolate pretzel clusters (I put crisp rice cereal in mine) and nut clusters of all sorts, so I cannot wait to try these with dried fruit. They are calling my name. Thanks for sharing and have a great week! xo
Zainab, I’m seriously loving all of these ingredients you put in this creative recipe! I’m glad you’re feeling better! xo
You are speaking my language with this glorious chocolate recipe, love your extra special twist you did on this!
oh my, those look yummy Zainab!
OOoooHHHH! genius!!! I love how crisp and crunchy and delish these look AND they’re healthy! HOORAY!
Glad you are feeling better! These crisps look so healthy and yummy
I feel like I would ruin all the health benefits of these by eating all of them in one day!! They look amazing!!
So many delicious things in these crisps! I wouldn’t be able to stop until I finish all of it 😀
LOL … I love how you turned your doctor’s office visit into a chance to get an idea for a new recipe, Zainab! I also LOVE this brekky idea. I would feel like I was eating a really naughty snack and yet really there’s nothing but goodness in there! Fabulous!
Yum! I love chocolate so when you can make it healthy, all the more better!!
I love honey bunches of oats… and I love everything else in these bars/cookies. I definitely need to try these for a healthy breakfast alternative. Thanks for sharing.
Anything with chocolate and pistachios is a winner in my book. Having this in the kitchen would be pretty problematic for my diet! LOL!
So glad you feel better! These hardly look heart-healthy, but I’m so glad that they are. 🙂 Just look at all that chocolate! I absolutely love your photos too. They’re stunning!
Glad to hear you’re back on your feet, Zainab. Being sick is the worst! Something terrible is going around this year. I was sick with the flu for over two weeks and everyone else I know is sick with something that lingers on and on. These chocolate cereal and nut crisps are the perfect healthy treat to snack on now that you’ve recovered. I love how adaptable this is but I might just stick with your combo – everything you put in there is delicious!
Hope your feeling better Zainab! We spent our weekend fixing our fence which got blown over by the strong winds that the UK has been experiencing. These look very tasty and moreish I’d happily eat these for my breakfast and snack attacks!
I love honey bunches of oats! These look uh-mazing. I especially like your photo of the ingredients all set out – so well done! And I’m loving all the healthy stuff in these. You sure got a lot in there! I so wish I could be eating one right now!
These would be an ideal snack/treat for me! They remind me of something my grand mother made for us kids….a long time ago. I love the addition of dried fruit too. Yum!
Hmmm hazelnuts and apricots, never tried that combo but I’m sure I’ll love it!
Um, I’m kinda sorta obsessed with these! They look so hearty and healthy but doesn’t seem like they’d taste it with all that goodness happening in those chocolate disks! Waaaaant.
Thanks Hayley. SO I have a confession. I just realized today that your comments were going to the spam folder 🙁 I am so sorry! But it is fixed now!!
This looks delightful, but it’s so pretty it would also make a nice gift..if it lasted long enough to get out to the recipients!
Heather, That’s what I thought too but it didn’t last long to make it out.
Saw you on show stopper Saturday and this recipe looks great! I will try this for our next work function.
Thanks Stephanie!!
What a fabulous way to eat your whole grains!!! These remind me of a Kind bar, only yummier, with all that glorious chocolate!