Dessert for 24

Chocolate Frito Bars

Name: Chocolate Frito Bars
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 24 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 bags (9 1/2 oz) frito corn chips; 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips; 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar; 1 1/2 cups light corn syrup; 1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter

$2.52for 415 minServes 24

Crunchy corn chips are coated with a peanut butter syrup and topped with melted chocolate before chilling into bars.

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What it costs

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Ingredient	Amount	Cost
	Tortilla chips, 19 oz$0.22/oz typical	19 oz	$4.18Typical price
	Chocolate chips and baking chocolate, 12 oz$0.45/oz typical	12 oz	$5.40Typical price
	Peanut butter, 14 oz$0.14/oz typical	14 oz	$1.89Typical price
Total for the servings shown		$15.15

Pantry staples you likely have

Sugar and brown sugarSyrups, molasses, powdered sugar

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15 minstart to table
Easydifficulty
24servings as written
$typical cost tier

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Typical price

$0.63 per serving$2.52 for 4

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Ingredients

2 bags (9 1/2 oz) frito corn chips
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups light corn syrup
1 1/2 cups creamy peanut butter

Steps

Spread the corn chips in a greased 9-by-13-inch pan.
Heat the sugar and corn syrup in a saucepan over medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring until smooth.
Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the peanut butter.
Pour the warm mixture over the chips and gently spread it across the pan.
Melt the chocolate chips in a saucepan over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes, then spread them over the bars.
Chill the pan for 5 minutes, then cut the bars.