Good morning sunshine bars

Today I tried another recipe from "Baked elements" - the good morning sunshine bar. It seems quite unspectacular - Just plain cereal, corn syrup, peanuts, peanutbutter, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and a little chocolate on top. And it doesn´t even go in the oven. As we have no corn syrup in Austria, I raided the internet for alternatives and found out, that you can use sugar syrup (75ml water boiled with 225g sugar) instead. I´m not sure if that has the same texture and everything but I had to try.

I left out the chocolate because I forgot to buy some. Yes, I know. How could I forget chocolate?
Because I made the sugar syrup, I left out the additional 1 cup of sugar, but put in a little more of the syrup. The peanuts are oilfree, handroasted ones my mother brought me from africa.  The bars came together very quickly. The result looks...modest:

BUT it tastes amazing!!! It´s like peanut heaven! The cereal is only half chrunchy, due to the syrup, but the peanuts gives it extra crunch on they´re own and it´s just awesome! I can see myself making these bars to take with me and eat on the go=)

I can only agree with the author of this book: The world does seem like a better place while eating this.

Crunchy peanut butter banana bread

My first attempt from "Baked elements" by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. I was looking for something to eat for breakfast. As I had overdue bananas at home, the recipe was perfect.
Here are the ingredience:
-Flour
-Sugar
-salt
-baking soda
-mashed bananas
-vegetable oil
-eggs
-whole milk
-crunchy peanut butter
-chocolate chips

I skipped the chocolate chips and used lactosefree milk to have the perfect loaf for me.
It came together easily and very quick. In the oven it took 1h 20m (10m more than given in the recipe). It smelled...awesome but strange.
When it was finished I let it coold down a bit, removed it from the pan and cut a slice of the still slighly warm bread. It was quite good. I´m not sure if I should say really good. I have mixed feelings about the peanut butter. The loaf is very soft, but still firm. And it´s very moist but not sticky. The perfect texture - very soft and chrunchy due to the peanuts.

Doesn´t it look just wonderful?