I have made these cookies before here but this time I changed the dried fruit and chocolate ingredients. I consider it one of my best granola bar/cookie recipes to date and so, when I was sent a bar of Whittakers' white raspberry chocolate, I decided to make them again and incorporate some of the bar. I say “some of the bar” because by the time I got around to do the baking, Adriano and Dario had almost demolished the bar. They swear I hadn’t said to keep their hands off it, but I know better. Whittakers sent me the chocolate as part of a promotion to advertise that 20% of the profits of this newly developed flavour go to Breast Cancer research. I agreed because I wanted to eat the chocolate and it was certainly no hardship to include it in a recipe. The 20% to breast cancer is a fortunate by-product since this is truly a cruel killer of women. Get your checks ladies and stay out of the statistics. As for the recipe, I doubled it to make sure we wouldn’t run out of them during … [Read more...] about White Raspberry Chocolate Cookies
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Cranberry & White Chocolate Banana Bread
I was a little disappointed in the last granola bars I made and intend to try various different recipes until I find a good one but meanwhile last night I was taken by an urge to make a banana loaf. I was home alone and couldn't be bothered making dinner just for myself so I baked the loaf and ate a slice - delicious. Not that I would recommend this as a balanced meal but it did have protein (eggs), fruit (cranberries, lemon and bananas) and carbs (flour). The only sugar was 1/2 cup of honey with the rest of the sweetness coming from the fruit. I found this recipe here. [print_this] Cranberry & White Chocolate Banana Bread Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 tsp of baking soda 1/2 tsp of salt 1/4 cup of canola oil 1/2 cup of honey 1 tsp vanilla 1tsp of lemon juice 2 eggs 3-4 ripe bananas mashed 1 cup of white chocolate chips 1 cup of dried cranberries Method: Mix the wet ingredients together (eggs, honey, lemon juice, vanilla, mashed bananas and … [Read more...] about Cranberry & White Chocolate Banana Bread