Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Healthy Granola Bars

Here are the granola bars. So much room for experimenting too - you could use whole-wheat flour, change vegetable for canola oil or applesauce to make even more healthy. Add in whatever else you please. Enjoy!
AMG

2 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup wheat germ
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup raisins (optional)
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup honey
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the oats, brown sugar, wheat germ, cinnamon, flour, raisins and salt. Make a well in the center, and pour in the honey, egg, oil and vanilla. Mix well using your hands. Pat the mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the bars begin to turn golden at the edges. Cool for 5 minutes, then cut into bars while still warm. Do not allow the bars to cool completely before cutting, or they will be too hard to cut.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The best peanut butter bars

I have been looking for a good peanut butter bar recipe and thanks to my sister in law I think I found the best one. ( I pracitically ate the whole pan myself) Enjoy!


Mix together
2/3 cup melted butter
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 c corn syrup
1/4 tsp vanilla


add:
4 cup oats
press in greased 9x13
Bake:400 for 10 minutes
or until golden brown around edges and bubbly on top
cool 5 minutes


Frosting:
1 1/2 c milk chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1/2 cp peanut butter
melt in sauce pan
poor over bars
refridgerate 2-3 hours

Rolls

2tbs sugar
1tsp salt
2 3/4 c flour
2 tsp yeast
1/4 cup water
7/8 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
1 egg

mix (if dry I add a littl bit of water, if wet flour, I usually always have to add one or the other) Let rise for 20 minutes.
Take out divide into three balls
roll out balls into circle, spread butter over them.
With pizza roller cut like a pie into six peices
roll up the pieces longer end of triangle to shorter
Place on sprayed cookie sheet.
cook 350 12-15 minutes (until golden brown on top)
milt butter on top.
enjoy!!

Monday, March 31, 2008

Mounds

1 lb powdered sugar
2 bags shredded sweetened coconut
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup melted butter
mix and roll in small balls. Freeze the balls until frozen.
Dip in:
1-2 bags melted semisweet chocolate chips

(the recipe says 1 bag chips will do, but I have never been successful at one bag)

Optional: press almonds to make almond joys

Fruit Dip

1 package of Vanila pudding mix
2/3 milk
1/2 cup sour cream

mix together. Slice up favorite fruits and dip enjoy!