No Bake Cookie Bars

I am so far behind on my receipes. I have probably 15 -20 recipes in draft, just no time. These were incredibly rich, but so yummy. They were easy, but a little time consuming. 

Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Bars by Sweet Treats and More

For the cookie bar:
1/2 cup milk
1/2 stick margarine (approx 56 grammes)
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
3 TBS cocoa
2 cup sugar
2 1/4 cup quick oats
1/2 cup peanut butter

In a medium saucepan, melt butter, milk, sugar, vanilla, salt and cocoa. Bring to a boil and let boil for about 90 seconds. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter, then oats one cup at a time. Pour mixture into a greased 8 x 8 in. glass pan. If you want a thinner bar you can use a 9 x 13 in. glass pan. Place in the fridge and let cool completely.

Peanut Butter Filling:
1/2 cup peanut butter
Once cooled completely spread 1/2 cup peanut butter over the top of the bars. Next make your chocolate frosting.

Chocolate Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
4 tbs cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
6 tbs milk
4 cups powdered sugar

Melt butter in a sauce pan over medium-high heat. Stir in cocoa, vanilla, and milk. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Immediately stir in powdered sugar, mixing in one cup at a time until smooth.

Spread the frosting over the bars, cut into squares and serve.

Saltine Cracker Toffee

I first had this several years ago at Bunco. I've wanted to make it but I just kept forgetting. I was reading my November 2010 issue of People magazine, and this recipe was featured. It reminded me of it so I finally tried it. It was funny because I was getting ready to make it and I saw it on The Girl Who Ate Everything's blog and it was the same recipe.Saltine Cracker Toffee

40 salted saltine crackers or enough to line your pan (next time I'm going to try graham crackers instead)

1 cup butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 cups milk chocolate chocolate chips

3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional) I left these out

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with saltine crackers in a single layer. In a small pot combine sugar and butter and bring to a boil. Once mixture is at a boil, continue boiling for 3 minutes. Mixture should be a deep caramel color. Immediately pour over saltines and spread to cover crackers completely. Bake at 400 degrees 5 to 6 minutes. It will get all bubbly. Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top and let sit a couple of minutes to melt. (I melted the chocolate chips in the microwave for about 1 minute then spread it on.) Spread melted chocolate and top with chopped nuts if desired. Cool completely and break into pieces.

Turtle Tassies

Another recipe from The Girl Who Ate Everything blog. Click HERE for a link to her pictures because hers look amazing. My three favorite things are sugar cookies, chocolate and caramel so what could be better than these. Instead of bringing gifts to everyone at work, we all just bring treats through out the month of December. I saw these and wanted to bring them but I wanted to try them first. They are so good! Mine look horrible compared to hers but I could eat the whole pan. I promise you'll love these too.

Turtle Tassies
Source: Betty Crocker

1 Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix (I only had refrigerated sugar cookie dough so that's what I used. I'm sure it doesn't matter either way)
butter and egg called for on the pouch
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate instead)
2 (14 ounce) bags caramels, unwrapped (I'm thinking of trying my 6 minute microwavable caramel next time)
1/3 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup chopped pecans (I didn't have pecans but I don't like them anyway so I just left them off)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Make dough according to package directions. Make 36 (1-inch) balls. Press each ball into a the bottom of each mini muffin cup and press up the sides.

Bake 8-9 minutes or until edges just start to brown. Meanwhile in a small saucepan place unwrapped caramels and cream and heat until melted. Reduce heat to low.

Remove pans from oven. Using the back of wooden spoon press down the sides and bottom of each cup to flatten being careful not to make holes. (I accidentally skipped this step, not on purpose, maybe that's why mine look so funny.)

Bake for 2 minutes more. Remove from oven and immediately place 4-5 chocolate chips in each cup. (and oops I missed this too. Man I must have been in a hurry)

Spoon about 1 Tablespoon of caramel into each cup and immediately top with pecans and slightly press them down. Cool for five minutes then remove with narrow spatula or a knife.

Makes 36 turtle tassies.

Chocolate Dipped Oreos

Yes that is a picture of a half eaten Oreo. Beautiful, not. Don't be surprised, or disappointed, if this is what you receive from us for Christmas this year. They look horrible, but trust me they taste delightful. I was excited to find Oreo's with red cream inside. My first few batches looked pretty good, but the more I did, the worse they looked. I don't know if my chocolate got to hot or the house was to cold so they went from hot to cold to fast. Who knows but they still taste good. I was actually going to add sucker sticks and make a cute little bouquet, but I got lazy so I just threw them in a tin or a bag. I also bought different colors of chocolate pieces to drizzle on top, but again, to lazy.

Directions

I bought the baking pieces that you can find at any craft or candy store. I also used my double broiler, which was nice because it kept the chocolate melted. If you don't have a double broiler, you can just melt the pieces in the microwave. It just takes longer that way. Just cover with chocolate then let dry on wax paper.

Smore's Bars

Another recipe from HERE. I'm telling you, I think if her and I met, we would be good friends. Silly, what we have in common, food, but seriously she loves the same things I do and I have not been disappointed in anything I've tried. I have a million more recipes to try and lots that I've tried that I need to post, but here's another yummy one. Of course mine looked nothing like hers but they were good anyway. They were super crumbly so maybe they needed to be mixed better.


Smores Bars
Source: Lovin In the Oven

1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 king-sized Hershey's milk chocolate bars (if you want a more subtle chocolate flavor use regular sized chocolate bars; enough to fit)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (7 1/2 oz jar)

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.

2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined.

3. Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. 2 king-sized Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer no more than 1/4 inch thick. Spread chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff. This part can be tricky. I made little disks with the dough and formed them into a sheet on some parchment paper then transferred it over. Spread it around gently.

4. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting into bars.
Makes 16 cookie bars.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Crescent Rolls

I got this recipe Here. It was a fast, easy treat. I like Karson to eat peanut butter so this was a good treat for him. Only the baby couldn't eat them and he was a little sad. I think I like the cinnamon/sugar ones I made the other day better, but these were good too.

Chocolate and Peanut Butter Crescent Rolls:
Original recipe by Cathy at Noble Pig
1 tube of crescent rolls
Peanut butter
Semi sweet chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)
Or use marshmallows instead of chocolate chips (I saw this on another blog and thought peanut butter and marshmallow would be a fabulous combination. Heck leave the chocolate in and have peanut butter, chocolate and marshmallow. Yum)

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Place the unrolled crescent rolls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Spread a layer of peanut butter on each triangle; top with chocolate chips.

Roll from the bottom of the triangle to the point. Place in the oven and bake for 10-11 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven and serve while hot. Enjoy.