Moist Applesauce Cocoa Bars Food

APPLESAUCE BROWNIES I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cream 1 1/2 cups sugar and margarine. Add eggs. Sift cocoa, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and flour ingredients and add to sugar mixture, alternately with applesauce. Pour into 10-1/2 X 15-1/2 inch jelly roll pan.
• Combine 2 tablespoon sugar, 1 cup chocolate chips and 1 cup chopped nuts. Sprinkle over batter. Bake for 30 minutes.

APPLESAUCE COCOA COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together the shortening and sugar replacement.
• Add egg and blend well.
• Sift all dry ingredients together and add alternately with applesauce and water to the creamed mixture.
• Be sure to add flour first and last.
• Drop by teaspoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.

MOIST APPLESAUCE COCOA BARS

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan.
• In a bowl, cream the 1-1/2 cups sugar with the 1/2 cup butter; beat until fluffy.
• Add in the eggs; beat well.
• Sift together the cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and the flour.
• Add to the butter mixture, alternately with the applesauce; mix well.
• Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking pan.
• In a small bowl, combine the 2 Tbsp sugar, 1 cup chocolate chips and 1 cup chopped nuts.
• Sprinkle over the batter in the pan.
• Bake for 30 minutes (do not over bake!) Cut into bars.

APPLESAUCE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix together the butter, brown sugar and egg until smooth. Stir in applesauce. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and pumpkin pie spice; stir into the applesauce mixture until well blended. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are golden. Cool in the pan over a wire rack.
• In a small bowl, mix together the confectioners' sugar and margarine. Stir in vanilla and milk until smooth. Spread over cooled bars before cutting into squares.

SPICED PUMPKIN-APPLESAUCE BARS

Steps:

• set oven to 350 degrees.
• set oven rack to second lowest position.
• grease a 15x10 baking sheet.
• in a bowl, sift all dry ingredients.
• in another bowl, combine eggs, pumpkin and applesauce; mix well.
• stir into the dry ingredients.
• spread into prepared baking sheet.
• bake for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned.
• cool, sprinkle with icing sugar.
• cut into bars.

APPLESAUCE OATMEAL SNACK BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
• Combine flour, oats, baking powder and salt.
• In separate bowl, beat white sugar and butter until blended.
• Whisk in cinnamon applesauce, egg, and vanilla.
• Add flour mixture to applesauce mixture and stir until well blended.
• In small bowl, combine chunky applesauce, raisins, brown sugar, and cinnamon.
• Spoon half of oat mixture into sprayed 8-inch baking pan; pour raisin filling over top, and spoon remaining oat mixture over filling, spreading evenly.
• Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned; cool on wire rack.

APPLESAUCE BARS

Steps:

• Place flour, sugar, dry sugar substitute, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a mixer bowl and mix at low speed to blend well.
• Combine hot applesauce and baking soda. (Don't try to be modern and use cold applesauce and mix the baking soda with the flour; it doesn't work as well that way.).
• Add the applesauce mixture, along with oil, nuts, and raisins, to flour mixture.
• Mix at medium speed until flour is moistened and batter is creamy.
• Spread batter evenly in a 9 x 13-inch cake pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray or greased well with margarine or butter.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 20 or 25 minutes, or until bars pull away from the sides of the pan and a cake tester comes out clean from the center. Cool on a wire rack.

EZ APPLESAUCE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Cream together butter and sugar; add applesauce.
• Mix in baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Dredge raisins in flour, then add both flour and raisins to batter.
• Bake in a greased 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan for 20-25 minutes at 350°.
• Cool thoroughly in pan.
• Frost with a powdered sugar glaze.
• Cut into bars.