I placed a piece of parchment paper on top of the dough and pressed down on it with my hands, trying to spread it out evenly as I went. Since the dough is so sticky and dense, it's challenging to spread out smoothly. Scoop the dough into the prepared square pan.The mixture will be very sticky and heavy. Scoop the wet ingredients over the dry and stir well until combined.In a large bowl, stir together the dry ingredients (oats, flour, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and cranberries).You don't want to pulverize it into a flour - the goal here is to keep a coarse texture, with some large pieces of oats and some smaller ones. Blend on the lowest speed (or pulse, if using a processor) until roughly chopped. In a blender or food processor, add the rolled oats.Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. In a medium pot over medium heat, stir together the pumpkin, molasses, sugar, and oil.Line an 8-inch square pan with 2 pieces of parchment paper, one going each way. Holiday shopping is cardio and cardio needs fuel! Thanks to the bars being so sturdy, they hold together wonderfully so you don’t have to worry about them breaking apart or getting crushed in your purse. I don’t know about you, but I think going to the mall in December without a snack in my purse is dangerous. I also recommend throwing a couple bars in your purse (skip the sticky glaze though) as an emergency-holiday-shopping-snack. You can also try spreading them with pumpkin butter to enhance the flavours, or they are great plain too. I added a creamy cashew butter maple cinnamon glaze on top in lieu of an icing sugar glaze. They are also nice with a cup of tea at night while snuggling on the couch in total hibernation mode. The bars aren’t super sweet, which is why I decided they were better described as a “snack bar” rather than a dessert bar. Over 5 tablespoons of iron-packed blackstrap molasses make these bars ultra-dense and gingerbread-like while providing a healthy dose of iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and more. In addition to the hefty amount of pumpkin these bars pack in, there’s also a good amount of iron and other minerals. Who can argue with vegetables over the holidays? Yes, that’s a whole cup of vegetables in a holiday snack bar recipe. Even if many of you are sick of pumpkin by now, you might be happy to know that the pumpkin flavour is barely detectable in these bars, despite having a whole cup of pumpkin puree in the recipe. Probably, but I never really had a solid run with pumpkin this year. Speaking of running 2 months behind, I have a pumpkin recipe for you today! Is it too late?
I’ll try to take a couple pictures of the tree (that is, before Sketchie knocks down all the bulbs and covers the branches with tiny wisps of tinsel-like fur). I guess we better make this tree thing happen before the snow arrives tomorrow. Who needs photography space anyway? I’d rather be a Griswold. I’m going to pick the biggest one I can find, just to prove a point. Me – Oh no you didn’t! I AM NOT A SCROOGE! Me – Is it too late to get a tree? Should we even bother this year? Įric – Ange. Our convo went a little something like this: Now we’re at that awkward point in December when we I ask if we even bother to put up a tree this year. The good news is we do have 15 nutcrackers to stare us down while watching TV. Or should I say, someone went to pick it up (along with our decorations), but the tree stand wasn’t in the box when that someone got home. The main reason we don’t have a tree is because our tree stand is stored at my brother-in-laws (along with other boxes of junk until we move into a house…bless you, Dave), and we haven’t picked it up. If you read the advent calendar post you’ll notice I said these words: “ a fun advent calendar that can be reused for many years to come…Maybe some day a child of our own will be using this each year.”Īnyway, back to the tree. Where is that girl? I have no idea where that thing is either….Eric probably got rid of it. Side note: I still can’t believe I made an advent calendar from scratch last year. So, here we are mid-December and there is no tree up yet.
I’ve still been so busy with book work, despite prematurely thinking that it was finished (hint: it never ends). The holidays only serve to enhance this feeling. It really doesn’t surprise me because I’ve been about 2 months behind throughout the course of 2013. Normally, we have our Christmas tree up by December 1st, but this year we totally dropped the bulb.
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