Cranberry Crumble Bars // Recipe

Hey-o! Today I have a really yummy, easy, and healthy recipe to share with you. And, my 6 yr. old sister even said she liked them better than chocolate! So I was pretty impressed with myself.

For these bars, you'll need a blender, a glass (rectangular) dish, and these five ingredients:

2 cups of  Dried Cranberries
1 cup of Peanut Butter (I used organic)
1/2 cup of Almonds (preferably sliced)
1/2 cup of Coconut
and whatever other seeds & nuts you have!
Seriously, just throw it all in the blender, and whatch it blend...

You may or may not need to add more peanut butter depending on how dry it is. But, your final product should be kind of squishy and, well, I don't really know how to describe it. So I guess you'll just have to see for yourself!

Next you'll want to take out your glass dish, and press down the mixture into the bottom of it. You might want to take out a rolling pin to help squish it down, pat it down as firmly as you can, then put it in the fridge for aboout 30 minutes.

Then you can take it out of the fridge, and cut it into bars. I wrapped my bars up seperately in parchment paper (see above), but if you don't have that much time to waste, you can always take out the box of zip-loc bags. What ever works! You will probably find that they are pretty crumbly, so what you can also do is use them as a crumble topping for yogurt. Seriously, they are really good! I recieved thumbs up from all of my siblings. But if you aren't a fan of cranberries, you could always substitute with raisins, dried apercots, etc. And the great thing with this recipe is that you can add whatever nuts and seeds you want!

Well, please let me know if you try these. I'd love to hear how yours turned out.
 Sorry if my instructions were hard to understand...

Thanks for reading,
Emma-lee

Candy Cane Dipper Recipe

 
    Last night we were all up late preparing for our cookie exchange, and one of the fun baking projects I made were these cute little candy cane dippers. They were super easy to prepare, and they taste delicious! So here are the simple instructions on how to make them:

Supplies -
about 30 large marshmallows
2 Tbsp. Coconut oil
1 cup of coloured sprinkles
about 30 candy canes (miniature or original)
1 cup of semisweet milk chocolate chips
1 litre of boiling water
crockpot
parchment paper
jar (with large opening)
small bowl

First pour the boiling water into crockpot, and turn heat level to high. Fill the jar with the chocolate chips, and place in the crockpot upright. Put the lid on the crockpot until the chocolate melts, and while you're waiting, unwrap candy canes and poke each one into a marshmallow.

 Lay out some parchment paper on a cookie sheet, and pour the sprinkles into a bowl. Once you've got all of the candy canes ready, start dipping the tops of the marshmallows into the melted chocolate. Then roll the marshmallows in sprinkles, and place on parchment paper.

Continue doing this with each one, until you're done. Then put the entire cookie sheet into the fridge for approx. 30 minutes, until the chocolate hardens.

Now you're done! Enjoy dipping these cute treats into your hot chocolate, or just eating them plain. They taste yummy either way :)

Happy Weekend!

Emma-lee

Joanna Guest Post

Hi! This morning Joanna from I love... will be guest posting for me. I hope all of you enjoy!

This is a recipe that is not only super easy and fast to make, but the results are delicious. When I say easy, I mean you add this, that, and your done! When I say fast, I mean they only take 30 minutes at tops. And when I say they are delicious, they are delicious!

You probably don't know this, but my brother, Isaac, likes food (especially sweets)... a lot! He has been begging me to make twinkies for... lets just say a long time. I haven't tried jumping over that obstacle yet, but I thought for now, I would make him these cookies, which he also loves! I made them, and right when they were cool enough to eat, there Isaac was, gulping them down one by one... So, long story short, he was very happy with the cookies.

TIP: when you are cooking the mixture, make sure that it does not boil too long, or when the cookies are cool they will be dry and crumbly. You're looking for a shiny and moist cookie.

No Bake Cookies

recipe from a family friend

1 batch makes roughly 20 large cookies

2 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Milk

1/2 cup Butter (1 stick)

1/4 cup Cocoa

1/2 cup Creamy Peanut Butter

3 cup Quick Cooking Oats

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1/4 teaspoon Salt

Cook sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa over medium heat until it boils. Turn the heat down to medium-low and let boil for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat and add peanut butter, oats, vanilla, and salt. Mix until combines. Spoon onto wax paper and let cool.

It is as easy as that! Enjoy them!

 

Hi! My name is Joanna and I blog at I Love... It is a place where I share my love for life, food, and photography. I'm a Christian teen living on a farm in Ohio with my parents and older siblings. I hope you stop by my blog!

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Thank you so much Joanna! Please go check out her blog, I'm sure you'll love it. (like I do)

xoxo,
Emma-lee (& Joanna)
 

Who wants S'more Cookies?

Hello All! I'm back, but this time....with a real post! I know, I know, it's been a while. But tonight I felt like I had to get out of my lazy chair, get the computer, camera, and tablet and sit back down in a chair (not the lazy one) to write up a little post for ya'll (wow! look at that, I'm going all southern on ya now) Tonight my Mom went to this couponing workshop (yes, she is now one of "those" people), So I got the lovely job of watching my siblings. All of Them. Usually when I babysit the sibs, it's on with a movie, and out with the snacks.  But tonight I decided to shake things up a bit, and do some baking! And Basically that's what this post is all about. Baking...with lots of kids.

             I wouldn't suggest doing this part of the cookie with the younger kids, just because first of all: it's quite time consuming with little ones. Second of all: it's messy, and third of all: I really don't think they could care less. So what I did, was made up this batch of cookie dough and gave it to them in separate little balls. So they could do the "fun" part.

                                               Here's the recipe:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of butter or margarine (softened)
3/4 cup of granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tbsp. milk or cream
1 tsp. vanilla flavouring
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt

Combine the first three ingredients together in large bowl. Stir in the milk or cream and vanilla. Mix  together thoroughly. Then add in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Once the ingredients are all blended together, (It shouldn't be sticky. If it is, add more flour) roll into separate balls for each person. Hollow out the inside of the dough ball, and stuff in peanut butter, marshmallows, chocolate chips, etc. until it's full. Then close the opening of the ball so that it covers all the goodies inside. Make sure the cookie is not too thick (it might not cook fully if it's too round). Place on greased tart pan or cookie sheet, and put in oven (at 425). Cook for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Makes about 8 cookies.

                                                          even the little bro' made one!

All in All, I'd say it was a hit! They all had fun, it wasn't too messy, and the cookies were delicious if I do say so myself.  What do you do when you babysit?

<3 Emma-lee