HIKER BARS

Caloric, filling, and tasty bars for the trail

Ingredients

• 125 g chunky peanut butter
• 80 g butter
• 2 medium bananas, (mashed)
• 125 ml molasses
• 200 g sugar
• 10 ml vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 5 ml cinnamon
• 1 ml ginger
• 75 g whole wheat flour
• 125 g white flour
• 150 g Kellogg's Special K cereal (crushed)
• 5 ml baking powder
• 1 ml baking soda
• 2.5 ml salt
• 180 g chocolate chips
• 150 g salted peanuts (chopped)
• 200 g dates (chopped)

Procedure by hand

1. Preheat oven to 175C In a large bowl cream together peanut butter and butter. Mix in bananas, molasses, sugar, and vanilla.
2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg.
3. Stir in the cereal. Sift together dry ingredients and mix into batter. Add chips, peanuts, and dates.
4. Pour batter into greased 20 x 30 pan.
5. Bake in preheated 175C oven for 35 to 45 minutes. Cut into bars.

Procedure with food processor

1. Cream butters in processor. Add cut-up bananas and blend.
2. Add molasses, sugar, vanilla. Blend.
3. Add eggs. Blend.
4. Pour batter into large bowl and stir in sifted dry ingredients.
5. Stir in other ingredients, one at a time. Continue with step 4, above.

Rating

Contributor

 
John Daleske 
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio 
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