Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Baking some snacks for the road

My daughter and I were busy trying to bake up some snacks for our trip tomorrow. The challenge we had on hand was to only use ingredients we already had at home.

What would you do with these? In case you can't tell from the photo, these are frozen cranberries that I've had for 2 years (Yikes!) and whole oats.


How about some healthy Cranberry bars - only has 3T of canola oil in the entire recipe and no cholesterol!





Now the snacks for the kids...these are known to have many names (coconut, nuts, choc. chips, graham cracker) but this particular recipe only used 3-4 T of melted butter. We used pecans we've had in the freezer. A quick toast in the oven releases their flavor. We used skim sweetened condensed milk to save some fat calories. I was hoping to use up all my leftover graham cracker crumbs but the recipe only used up 1 cup. I always have broken grahams around that can't be used for s'mores or Chocolate eclair so I keep processing them and saving them for that someday that I will make cheesecake from scratch.







I'll be back in 2 weeks! By the way, we tasted both desserts and they were both delicious!

3 comments:

miss suki said...

That is mighty creative & yummy looking too.

Dizzy Broad said...

Hi Miss Suki! You should have seen it sliced! It looked like squares of ruby jewels! I'll have to send you the recipe- super easy.

We're in the hotel now in Yreka. We went to Lake Shasta Caverns. A fun side strip before we stopped for the night. THe lake is very low, not much water. It was nice in the caves - 68 degrees while it was 93 outside (I loved that heat though)!

Kids are showered and clean! Will try to update the blog while we're on vacation. :-)

miss suki said...

I'd love the recipe! Thanks. Glad you are all safe on your trip.