Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

These are so good. I made very minor changes and it still came out yummmmmmm.

Original recipe found here.

Ingredients

2 C flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

2 1/2 C old fashioned oats

1 1/2 C brown sugar

1 1/4 C butter, melted

2 eggs Substitute with 2 Tb Flaxseeds mixed with 6 Tbs water. Let it sit while you do the other stuff. 

1 Tb vanilla

2 1/2 C milk chocolate chips

Mix dry (yellow) ingredients in one bowl. Mix wet (blue) ingredients in another. Mix together and pour into a greased baking dish. I used a 8.5 X 12 glass dish and da buggah was cherreh!

Bake 350 degrees F for 15 minutes. Enjoy with ice cream or a glass of milk. So. good.

Aunty Delsa's Fry Bread

Eeeevery time fry bread is mentioned...Chu goes on about THE BEST fry bread he's had was Aunty Delsa Moe's.  So since it came up again on Sunday and I finally realized that I'd be listening to this same ol' story for the rest of my life...I decided to ask her for her recipe...and here it is!! SO BOMB!! Not gonna lie, He was totally right!!

Ingredients:
2 C Luke warm water
2 T yeast
2 T sugar
2 T oil
2 t salt
4 C Flour (and extra for kneading)

note: just don't add too much flour when kneading. Let it stay a little sticky, otherwise it doesn't turn out as light and fluffy
note 2: works too with pastry flour...it becomes super light and airy...but I think using high grade flour is best

Method:
Combine water, yeast, sugar, oil and salt. Stir it gently about 3 times then let it sit 10 min for yeast to bubble. Add in 4 cups flour a little at a time and knead well. If dough is still sticky sprinkle in a little more flour and knead. Let it rise about 30-45 min till double in bulk.
Oil a flat surface and roll out half the dough with a rolling pin so it's about half inch thick or little less then cut into pieces with a pizza cutter or oiled knife. Separate pieces and let rise about 10 min while you heat up a pan of oil to deep fry them in. Fry both sides till golden brown and drizzle with butter, honey or golden syrup.

She said that it may take a few times to master...buuuut our first batch was OSUM!! So even if that was the junk batch...dang this is a good recipe :)

Enjoy!!

Moist Chocolate Cake

This chocolate cake is my 'go to' recipe now since Petra introduced it to me.  It's super easy and quick to make.  The original recipe (that you can find here) calls for coffee but it's easily substituted with boiling water :) It's a runny mixture so don't think you're doing it wrong if it seems waaay runny...

(A baker friend of mine said that the recipes that are the most moist...are quite runny and call for boiling water...so that made me feel like almost a legit baker with this recipe lol).

Here's my edited version of the recipe, enjoy!

• 35minCook Time
• 15minPrep Time
• 12Servings

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

• 2 cups granulated white sugar

• 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda

• 3/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 large eggs

• 1 cup buttermilk (or substitute by putting 1 tbsp white vinegar in a cup then filling the rest up with milk; let stand 5 minutes until thickened)

• 1/2 cup butter, melted

• 1 tbsp vanilla extract

• 1 cup boiling water

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees/180 degrees celsius. Grease and flour two 9-inch baking pans (or line with parchment paper circles) and set aside. Or just grease A pan, easier lol.
2. In the large bowl of a standing mixer, stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla extract and beat until smooth (about 3 minutes). Remove bowl from mixer and stir in boiling water Batter will be very runny.
3. Pour batter evenly between the two pans and bake on middle rack of oven for about 35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached. If you're just making one cake, it'll take longer to bake, at least an extra 10mins...I just keep checking on it to see when it's ready.
4. Allow to cool 15 minutes in pans, then run a butter knife around the edges of each cake. Place a wire cooling rack over top of each pan. Wearing oven mitts, use both hands to hold the racks in place while flipping the cakes over onto the racks. Set the racks down and gently thump on the bottom of the pans until the cakes release. Just get the cakes out of the pans lol. Cool completely before handling or frosting.

Coleslaw dressing

Simple Coleslaw Dressing

1/2 Cup Mayo
2 T white sugar
1 1/2 T lemon juice
1 T white vinegar
1/2 t Black pepper
1 t salt

Mix it all up and add to your coleslaw! Easy as that!