Coconutty Fruit Bars Food

COCONUT CRANBERRY WALNUT BARS

Steps:

• 1. Pre- heat oven to 350 degree's. Get a 9x13 inch pans out
• 2. Combine first 3 ingredients. Mix flour and sugar together. slice the butter in to the flour mix. Get your hands in there and keep mixing and squeezing the flour in to the butter until you have pea size balls.
• 3. press in to the 13x9 inch pan bottom and slightly up the sides of the pan.Bake crust for about 15 minutes,or until crust sides are slightly browned.Remove from oven.
• 4. Slightly beat eggs,add brown sugar,flour,vanilla,salt,coconut,walnuts,and cranberries. Mix really well. Top the crust with this mixture. Smooth filling over crust. Return to oven and bake 20- minutes,or until top is browned nicely.
• 5. Cool and cut in to squares. Do not over brown these. When they are ready. They will be slightly brown. If you over brown them. They will taste dry,but still good. LOL

FRUIT, HONEY AND COCONUT ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Grease an 8x8 pan with a little butter.
• In a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, honey and vanilla extract until well-combined.
• Add the sunflower seeds, dried fruit, sesame seeds and coconut and combine thoroughly with the peanut butter mixture.
• Gradually add the puffed brown rice cereal to this.
• This is where a child comes in handy-- this step is gooey and messy and best mixed with your hands- and kids love stuff like that.
• Firmly press the mixture into the prepared 8x8 pan; you'll need to wet your hands slightly, otherwise the mixture just sticks to them.
• Cover and refrigerate for a couple of hours, then cut and serve.
• They're very rich!

COCO-NUTTY TROPICAL TREAT BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Mix graham cracker crumbs and confectioners' sugar. Stir in butter until evenly moistened. Press crumb mixture firmly into bottom of pan. Bake until edges are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile stir sweetened condensed milk, pineapple, coconut and almonds until blended. Pour into baked crust and spread almost to edges.
• Bake until just set, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle with white chocolate chips. Let stand until chocolate softens, 3 to 4 minutes, then carefully spread chocolate over surface. Cool completely. Cut into 32 bars.
• Servings: 32.
• Nutritional Information Per Serving:
• Calories 160; Total fat 9g; Saturated fat 6g; Cholesterol 15mg; Sodium 70mg; Carbohydrate 19g; Fiber 1g; Protein 2g; Vitamin A 2%DV*; Vitamin C 2%DV; Calcium 6%DV; Iron 2%DV.
• *Daily Value.