We rarely identify our “favorite” recipes for the simple reason that they change all the time based on mood, environment and time of year. Therefore, we consider it a slightly big deal to induct this recipe into the rarefied kingdom of “Matt and Renato’s All-Time Favorite Recipes,” which is neither a book nor a file nor a thing, but just a place in our collective minds.

The recipe itself is embarrassingly simple – really, just cereal (therefore making these bars a perfectly plausible breakfast solution), peanut butter, peanuts and chocolate. Combined, these ingredients make a bar that is absurdly transcendental – salty, sweet, crunchy and addictive, with nods to some purer form of childhood nostalgia (think bake sales and campfire tales) – yet uniquely current, like an Eames chair. We make them for afternoon snacks, for parties, for romantic dates, for large events. In fact, there is rarely an occasion not to make these bars. We actually prefer them in the morning, with a hearty cup of coffee. The world just seems like a better place when you wake up with our Good Morning Sunshine Bars.