Rocky Road Bars

Rocky Road Bars
JoAnna Lund, Cooking Healthy With the Kids in Mind p.262
Serving Size : 8

These brownies are nutritious and just crammed with delectable treats! They
prove my point, that too much of a good thing can be just wonderful!
JoAnna Lund
Serves 8 (2 each)

Ingredient
1/2 cup (1 1/2 ounces) quick oats
6 tablespoons Bisquick Reduced Fat Baking Mix
2/3 cup Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk Powder
1/3 cup Sugar Twin or Sprinkle Sweet
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup water
3 tablespoons Peter Pan reduced-fat peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup (2 ounces) miniature marshmallows
1/4 cup (1 ounce) chopped walnuts
1/4 cup (1 ounce) mini chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 11 1/2 by 7 1/2-inch baking pan
with butter-flavored cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine oats,
baking mix, dry milk powder, Sugar Twin, cocoa, and baking powder.
Add water, peanut butter, and vanilla extract. Mix well to combine.
Evenly spread mixture into prepared baking pan. Bake for 8 minutes.
Sprinkle marshmallows, walnuts, and chocolate chips evenly over
partially baked crust. Return to oven and continue baking for 5
minutes or just until topping starts to melt together. Place baking
pan on a wire rack and allow to cool completely. Cut into 16 bars.

Each serving equals:

HE 2/3 Fat, 1/2 Bread, 1/2 Protein, 1/4 Skim Milk, 1/2 slider,
3 optional calories

179 Calories, 7 gm fat, 6 gm Protein, 23 gm Carbohydrate,
190 mg Sodium, 119 mg Calcium, 2 gm fiber

DIABETIC: 1 1/2 Starch/Carbohydrate, 1 Fat

Recipe from: "Cooking Healthy with the Kids in Mind" by JoAnna M. Lund

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I have JoAnna's Rocky Road Bars in the oven .I copy/pasted the recipe
from the eGroups board and I'm pretty sure the recipe has an error.It
calls for 1 cup of water in the brownie base{crust} but i'm wondering
if it should only be 1/2 cup or less.The batter is thinner than a
cream soup.I'll add the recipe in with this message and hope someone
can help me.I needed this for a dinner party dessert!!Feel free to
email me.thanks a lot!!

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POSTED REPLIES TO THIS MESSAGESubject:�Re: HELP with an ingredient..
From:�Elsie in HI��
Carol, I have the cookbook that this recipe is from, and according to
the book (Cooking Healthy...Kids, p.262) the amount of water, 1 cup,
is correct. hope this helps, and hope your bars turned out great.
Haven't tried this one, let us know how they are!

From:�Carol��
Wellllllllll, the baking time took about 20 minutes as the batter is
quite runny.Once done I added on the nuts, chocolate chips and
marshmallows & did it in the oven for 5 mins.They seem to be fine but
I cut them while still warm.I think it would be better to chill first
and then cut.Also, next time I will add a we bit of salt.But they are
tasty and I will make them again!!

From:�Jen��
I think 1/2 cup of water would be more than sufficient for this
recipe. Must be a misprint.

From:�Carol�
I kind of wondered about using only the 1/2 cup.The 'cake'{using 1
cup} turned out okay but doesn't have the 'brownie texture'.Thanks
for the tip!!