Ever have those moments when you’re craving something really specific? I have them almost monthly, usually around the time that my face starts breaking out like a 16 year old who’s been eating chocolate and drinking Coca-Cola on the sly… that is when I start craving the combination of sweet and salty. Here is a desert recipe which uses three ingredients everyone seems to have and one leftover from “movie night” to create a gooey bastardized version of the *Rice Krispie Treat:

Popcorn Peanut Butter Bars:
Ingredients:
1. 3 cups of lightly salted, non-buttered stale popcorn
2. 1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter
3. 1/16 cup of honey
4. 2 tbsp of flour

Technique:
1. In a bowl, mix together honey, peanut butter and flour into a paste
2. Pre-heat oven to 350 F.
3. Fold popcorn into peanut butter mixture, stirring until all popcorn is coated
4. Lightly spray the bottom and sides of a small pie pan with cooking spray
5. Spread popcorn/peanut butter mixture evenly into the pan
6. Bake in oven for about 15 minutes (time can vary - don’t cook longer than 25 minutes) until solidified
7. Let pan completely cool
8. Slice into bars
9. Eat with a napkin - this is a slightly gooey, yet YUMMERS taste treat - while flipping through a copy of Tiger Beat, watching Beverly Hills 90210 on DVD and dreaming of taking Dylan McKay to prom

*I don’t like Rice Krispie Treats for the fact that I cannot tolerate marshmallows in any form other than the forms found in Lucky Charms Cereal… marshmallows = ICKY!