I shared some of my favorite healthy Valentine’s Day treats with the Q13 FOX News team. These are easy to make, and super yummy! What a fun morning! Thank you Bill and Q13 FOX News!
XOXO
-Amber
I Love U Bars
2014-02-11 01:11:48
This is a yummy granola bar full of healthy ingredients that you can keep in the fridge or freezer and grab one to go! It’s a great snack to take to school, too. These granola bars disappear quickly at our house. I hope you like them too!
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Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups rolled oats
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup cranberries
- ½ cup toasted sesame seeds
- ¼ cup ground flax seeds
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 ½ cups Valencia Peanut Butter
- 1 cup honey
- ¼ cup melted butter (or non-dairy alternative, such as Earth Balance)
- (Optional) Nuts, such as cashews
- (Optional) Chocolate chunks
- Red fruit leather (organic, all-natural)
- Extra peanut butter
Instructions
- Combine oats, raisins, cranberries, sesame seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, salt, chia seeds, and chocolate chunks in a large bowl.
- In a small saucepan, melt the butter, honey, and peanut butter and mix to combine.
- After allowing it to cool a bit, pour the peanut butter goo into the large bowl and mix well so that all of the oats, fruit, and seeds are coated with the goo.
- Lay some parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Place some of the dough inside a large heart-shaped cookie cutter and using a small spoon, press down to pack the dough in tightly in the cookie cutter. While pressing down on the dough, carefully remove the cookie cutter, leaving a heart-shaped dough. Use the spoon to pat down any edge that is sticking out.
- Bake in the preheated oven at 350F degrees for 15 minutes. Refrigerate until hard, about 30 minutes.
- With the smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out heart shapes from red fruit leather.
- Using a little bit of peanut butter, glue the heart-shaped fruit leather to the bottom side of the granola bar (it's flat so the leather will stick better.)
- You can keep it frozen, or in the refrigerator. They are great for Valentine's Day parties, and for school snacks! Enjoy!
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Peanut Butter Jelly Apples (P.B.J.A.s)
2015-02-03 07:26:27
These are to die for! It only uses 4 ingredients and they are easy to make! Use any shape cookie cutter, but we used a heart for Valentine's Day 🙂
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Ingredients
- Apple
- Nut butter (100% Valencia peanut butter is best)
- Jam or jelly (no-seed jelly works best, and get the brightest red color you can get!)
- Fruit leather
- Small cookie cutter
Instructions
- Slice the apples about 1/4 inch thick, horizontally.
- Group the slices into pairs that will be used to make the little sandwiches.
- For those slices where there is very little core (small enough to just eat), spread peanut butter over the entire slice. Cut a heart-shape (or any shape) out of the other slice, taking out its core. Place it on top of the slice with peanut butter. Add a dollop of jam inside the cut-out, and spread to cover up the cut-out.
- For those slices where the core is too tough to eat, use a cookie cutter to cut the core out of both the bottom and top slices. Spread peanut butter over the bottom slice. Take a piece of fruit leather and place it over the hole, and top with the top apple slice. Add a dollop of jam inside the cut-out, and spread to cover up the cut-out.
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