Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispy Squares -- Gluten free AND Sugar free!

This journey towards MORE in the gluten-LESS and sugar-LESS life encounters no greater challenge than the dessert table! Seriously, you can find gluten-free dessert recipes online all day long, but they are full of refined sugar. And you can find just as many sugar-free dessert recipes but they are all full of gluten. But trying to find a recipe for a dessert that is BOTH gluten and sugar free, yet still not only edible, but actually tastes really yummy like a dessert is supposed to taste??? Ha! For months I didn't believe that was possible! Then, while wandering around on Pinterest one day, I stumbled onto this little gem! The picture looked promising and the rave reviews were piling up by the minute so I decided I needed to give it a try right away... It was FANTASTIC!!!!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
3 cups Rice Krispies
1/2 cup Hershey's Sugar Free chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoon coconut oil (or olive, or canola, etc.)

Directions:

1. Mix the maple syrup, peanut butter, cocoa powder, vanilla and salt in a pot on low heat until well combined, then add the rice crispies. Quickly transfer the mixture into a rectangular or square pan lined with parchment paper and put the pan in the freezer.

2. While the crispy mixture chills, make the fudge topping by melting together the chocolate chips, peanut butter and coconut oil on low-medium heat.

3. After about a dozen minutes, pour the chocolate mixture onto your crispy mixture and put back in the freezer to chill until hard - about 45 minutes. It will harden more with time.

4. Once well chilled, cut into 18 or so pieces. If the pieces are harder than you`d like, store them in the fridge afterwards, or keep them out a few minutes before eating.

My husband, (who is my pickiest food critic) was absolutely flabbergasted that these were GF and SF! It literally tastes like a Nestle Crunch bar that has been slathered in peanut butter. I am not kidding, if you have been longing for soemthing sweet that won't make your body go into a tailspin, if you thought you would never be able to have dessert again, MAKE THESE TONIGHT! And glory in the VICTORY of finding MORE in this "less" life!