Organic Granola Bars

Popcorn Granola Snack Bars



Ingredients:

1/2 cup Organic honey
2/3 cup Organic natural peanut butter
1 cup Organic Granola
1 cup roasted and salted peanuts
3 cups popped popcorn


Directions:

Line an 8 or 9-inch square baking pan with foil. Spray foil lightly with cooking spray; set aside.
Heat honey in a large saucepan until boiling. Stir in peanut butter until well blended.
Remove pan from heat and stir in granola, peanuts and popcorn until coated.
Press mixture evenly into prepared pan. Refrigerate until cool; cut into bars to serve.

Homemade Organic Yogurt

Ingredients
•6 cups whole organic milk

•1/2 cup whole plain organic yogurt

•A cooking thermometer with clip

•A medium sized pan

Step 1: Warming up the Milk

Put the milk in a medium sized sauce pan. Clip the thermometer  to the rim of the pan, making sure it's touching the milk. Warm up the milk to 180 degrees F and immediately remove from heat.

Step 2: Adding the Yogurt to the Milk

Cool down the milk to 120 degrees. The milk will quickly cool down if you put the milk saucer in a pan with cold water. Once the milk reachers 120 degrees, stir with a wooden spoon and then add the 1/2 cup of plain yogurt and mix with a wooden spoon for a couple of seconds to evenly distribute the yogurt bacteria.

Step 3: Allow the Yogurt Bacteria to Incubate

With a clean dish towel cover your yogurt and leave overnight. The yogurt needs to stay at a temperature of around 80 to 100 degrees. If you're doing this in the winter time you can place a heating pad under the saucer. If you don't have a heating pad you can warm up water to 100 degrees and put it in a cooler and place the saucer with the yogurt in the cooler, close and leave overnight. Allow the yogurt bacteria to incubate with the rest of the milk for 12 hours.

Step 4: Refrigerate the Yogurt and then Serve

After 12 hours, mix the yogurt and then refrigerate for at least 2 hours. After 2 hours the yogurt is ready to be served. If you like your yogurt thick then strain it through a cheese cloth after it has been refrigerated and you'll get a greek yogurt like consistency. Keep the yogurt refrigerated at all times and use within two weeks.

Gluten Free No-Bake Pumpkin Seed Caramel Bars

By Susan P on July 31, 2011in Cinnamon Bark, Recipes

Ingredients

1 cup raw, organic pumpkin seeds

1 ½ cups raw cashew or other nut flour (ground nuts)

½ cup raw, organic sunflower seeds (or seeds of your choice)

2/3 cup organic coconut flour

1 cup organic almond butter

1 cup organic caramel (see recipe below)

1 tbsp organic coconut palm sugar

 

Mix all ingredients well. Press into a pan and divide into bars after cooled.You can put them in the fridge for 15 -20 minutes to help them firm up.  If desired, freeze separately for on the go snacks.   I made some extra caramel sauce for garnish and sprinkled each serving with  raw cocoa nibs.  Enjoy!

 

Makes approximately 3 dozen small bars

 

Organic Caramel Sauce

¼ cup organic butter

1 ½ cups organic coconut palm sugar

1 generous tbsp organic coconut cream

1 tsp organic vanilla extract

Pinch of sea salt

Melt coconut sap and butter in a saucepan, stir constantly until caramel forms

Stir together nuts, seeds, coconut flour and sap

Mix together caramel sauce, dry ingredients and nut butters, press in 9x13 pan