No bake granola bars

These were pretty delicious and will definitely be making them... repeatedly, perhaps I'll play with different filling ingredients.

No-Bake Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup local honey
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup crispy rice cereal
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons mini chocolate chips 

Directions:

Toast the oats in a pan for 4 or 5 minutes til they are slightly fragrant. In a large bowl, stir oats and rice cereal together. Set aside. In the same pot you used for the oats, melt butter, honey and brown sugar together over medium high heat until it comes to a bubble. Reduce the heat and cook 2! minutes. Pour in vanilla and stir. Dump in the dry ingredients and mix well to moisten all ingredients. Press down into an 8" X 8" pan nice and tight. Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips and press down lightly (or melt chocolate and drizzle on top. Cool on a counter top to room temperature for two hours or until the chocolate chips are set before cutting into bars. Store at room temperature.

Recipe Notes: If your granola bars don’t seem to be staying together when you cut them, you may have made them too thin or you didn’t pack them in tight enough or didn't toast the oats enough. Stick them in the fridge for 20 minutes and that should help keep them together. {Be sure not to keep them in there too long or else they’ll become super hard!} The next time you make them, try reducing the butter to 3 tablespoons and really packing them down.