Recipe Tutorial: Quick No-Bake Granola Bars

The first few weeks of school have come and gone for my little minions. Well they’re not so little anymore. At almost 14 and almost 12, they’re I guess, pint-sized minions.

Anywho. My kids always beg for an after school snack, so I decided to get a little inventive with the items I already had in the kitchen.

You’ll need: Oatmeal, rice crispies, brown sugar, honey, peanut butter and assorted fillings. I added dry roasted peanuts, granola, peanut butter chips and marshmallows. You can add pretty much anything you want. The sky is the limit!

Add your honey, brown sugar and peanut butter in a saucepan and combine.

It doesn’t look appealing, but trust me. Turn your stove on medium/low and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Bring it to a boil and continue boiling for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.

Get all of your non-melty ingredients together.

Grease a 9x13 pan and set aside.

Add the liquid to the dry and stir. Let it cool just a tad.

Add the marshmallows.

Peanut butter chips.

Add some mini chocolate chips and stir to combine.

Transfer to a pan and using your hands or a spatula, smooth the mixture out.

Sprinkle with chocolate chips and let cool as long as you can.

They’re so fantastic smelling that it might be kinda hard to keep your fingers out.

Cut them into bar shapes when you just can’t handle waiting any longer and enjoy!!

 

Easy No-Bake Granola Bars

*Note* You can tweak this recipe any way you like. I rarely ever measure anything but the oats for this, so you don’t have to either. Just go with what you think tastes good.

2/3 c Peanut Butter

1/4 c Honey

1/2 c Brown Sugar

3 c Oatmeal

Fillings and Add Ons:

1 c. Rice Crispies

1 c Dry Roasted Peanuts

1/2 c Granola

1 c marshmallows

1/2 c Peanut Butter Chips

1/2 c Mini Chocolate Chips

 

In a large bowl, combine oatmeal, rice crispies, granola and roasted peanuts. Set aside.

Combine peanut butter, brown sugar and honey in saucepan. Heat over medium-low heat until boiling, stirring occasionally. Once it reaches a boil, time for 3 minutes, stirring constantly.

Pour honey mixture over dry ingredients and stir to combine. Let cool slightly.

Add marshmallows, peanut butter and chocolate chips. Stir.

Press into greased 9x13 inch pan, let cool. Slice into bars and enjoy!

Recipe Tutorial: Bacon Cinnamon Rolls

My dear mother showed me a picture of some scrumptious looking cinnamon rolls on Facebook. Along with the pictures, they added a description on how they made them. They did exactly as I did, but they used uncooked bacon. To me that equated to a huge, nasty, greasy mess that would basically turn some really good cinnamon rolls into inedible, greasy blobs of nastiness.

So I had to do it my way.

Here’s what you’ll need: Pie plates (duh), cooking spray, your favorite cinnamon rolls and already cooked bacon. I didn’t use both tubes for the bacon cinnamon rolls, I used the other tube to make regular ones so if the bacon ones didn’t turn out well we’d have back up.

Carefully open the tube and place the frosting off to the side. Taking one roll, unroll it until the last little curl.

Place one piece of already cooked bacon on the cinnamon roll’s internal yumminess.

Roll back up and place any excess cinnamon mixture back onto the top roll.

Repeat and place thusly into the cooking vessel. (Or Cooking Wessel… Let me know if you get this… LOL)

Mmmmm yummy

Take some of the unused bacon and tear it up and put it on top. This is completely optional, but… I love bacon…

Cook as directed on the package… This is about 26 minutes and it was perfect.

Let them rest a little so the frosting doesn’t just evaporate.

Frost…

And enjoy!!! I seriously think this would be the perfect addition to a brunch with like an egg breakfast casserole or something.

*drool*

Don’t expect these to last long… Cause they won’t.