No Bake Cranberry Nut Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 4 cups fiber one honey clusters cereal
• 1 cup chopped dried cranberries (i use dried tart cherries)
• 1/2 cup roasted unsalted sunflower seeds
• 1/3 cup cashew pieces
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup corn syrup (i used a lite version with great results)
• 1/4 cup peanut butter (i use crunchy, but the original recipe calls for creamy)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 in large bowl, mix cereal, cranberries, sunflower nuts and cashews.
• 2 in 2-quart saucepan, mix brown sugar, corn syrup and peanut butter. heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. boil and stir 1 minute. remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
• 3 pour syrup over cereal mixture, stirring until evenly coated. drop mixture by scant 1/4 cupfuls onto waxed paper. note: i actually coated my 1/4 cup measuring cup with cooking spray and pressed the mixture into the cup making perfect little cookies with ease.
• 4 cool completely, about 30 minutes.