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Peanut Butter Frizzles

A chewy corn chip cluster with salty pretzels and crunchy peanut butter.

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A crunchy new treat to introduce to the 12 Tomatoes world is here, and it’s covered in peanut butter. This sweet and salty cluster will have you asking yourself whether or not this tastes good, well, I’m here to say it’s freaking DELICIOUS! Build your salty snack combo, make your peanut butter confection, and fold it all together like a rice krispie treat. I like to use an ice cream scoop to portion each cluster and drop it onto some wax paper. You can cover these in chocolate or dollop each hot cluster with a square of Hershey’s chocolate. You will fall in love with this chewy addictive candy.

Salty and sweet have been a combination since peanut butter and jelly. It just works! Corn chips work so well because they are greasier than tortilla chips and saltier to boot. I mixed this with crushed peanuts and pretzels for that classic combination of textures.

This recipe gets its signature chew from the corn syrup. This is what gives most chewy candy it’s chew. The corn syrup almost freezes the mixture in a forever softness, which lends its signature chew to candies like bonbons, taffy, and even soft caramels.

The corn syrup and peanut butter get heated up with one cup of sugar to make a sweet candy batter that you drench your salty snacks in. Use a wooden spoon to stir the mixture together and then that same spoon can help you portion out clusters. Don’t forget to dollop each cluster with some chocolate.

These make great weeknight treats and, stored in an air-tight container, will last for a few weeks. They will even retain their chewiness even if you decide to freeze them. Hands down one of my favorite snacks growing up.

Yield(s): Makes 24 clusters

10m prep time

15m cook time

30m inactive

Allergens: Gluten

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup corn syrup
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter, crunchy
  • 10 oz. Fritos
  • 2 cups hershey’s chocolate, broken into pieces
  • 1 1/2 cups pretzel sticks, broken up
Preparation
  1. In a bowl, combine corn chips and crushed pretzel sticks together. Set aside.
  2. In a saucepan, add corn syrup and sugar over medium-high heat until it reaches a boil. Remove pan from heat and whisk in peanut butter.
  3. Pour mixture into the fritos bowl and stir with a wooden spoon. Drop clusters onto a wax paper sheet and stick a piece of chocolate in each.
  4. Let cool, then store in an air-tight container for up to two weeks on the countertop

Recipe adapted from Allrecipes.