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Peanut Butter Coconut Blondies



These are a very rich and sweet blondie packed full of everything I find delicious. This came from a recipe I found that was similar but used butterscotch chips and was baked in a pie plate. I made it a little different and, like I said, added all the things I love! Let me know if you make them and how they come out since no one has yet tried my recipes.





1/2 Cup (1 stick) Room Temperature Butter
1/2 Cup Light Brown Sugar
1/2 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
1 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
4 Tablespoons Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Large Egg
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Peanut Butter Chips
1/3 Cup Slivered or Chopped Almonds
1/2 Cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease the bottom and sides of a 8x8 baking pan.

In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.

With an electric mixer (stand mixer with paddle attachment or hand mixer) beat the butter until smooth. Add sugars and beat until combined. Add the egg, peanut butter, and vanilla extract and beat until smooth. Slowly add the flour mixture until dough forms. With a wooden spoon stir in peanut butter chips, almonds and coconut. Scrape dough into baking pan and smooth top with a spatula.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean but still with a few crumbs sticking to it. Cool completely on wire rack and cut into squares.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Here is my newly invented recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp. I came up with this recipe because I had left over rhubarb and strawberries from making a pie and not being a big fan of pie I came up with this instead. It's sweet but also a little tangy. A summery take on the classic Apple Crisp!

Filling
3 Cups Chopped Fresh Rhubarb
3 Cups Chopped Fresh Strawberries
3/4 Cup Sugar
1/4 Cup + 1 Tablespoon Flour
2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon Nutmeg

Topping
1/2 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Packed Dark Brown Sugar
1/3 Cup Flour
1/2 Cup Oats
5 Tablespoons Cold Butter (cut into 5 pieces)

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees and set aside a 9in x 11in baking pan.

Chop rhubarb and strawberries into bite size pieces and place in large bowl. Add sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg and toss till fruit is coated. Place fruit into baking pan.

For the topping mix together sugars, flour and oats. With a pastry blender, or two knives, cut in butter until the size of large peas. Sprinkle topping onto fruit and add additional cinnamon and nutmeg to top if desired.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until fruit is bubbling and top is browned. Let cool for 30minutes to 1 hour.

Serve warm with ice cream or whipped cream!

Note: If you don't have dark brown sugar just use 3/4 cup light brown sugar. Also, my oven is generally very hot but if your oven tends to be more on target or a little cooler up the temp 25 degrees.

My Hero

My first recollection of my uncle Heinie was my Mother telling every one he was her favorite Brother. he was very out going, and always seemed to be happy. I was probably seven or eight years old when i was visiting my grand mother. Heinie lived with her. He said " come on kid, were going to work" He drove a truck for the local creamery. He liked to show me around, and tell me all about how butter was made etc. I think I liked him from the very start. He never made fun of the way I stuttered. Once on the truck and out on the road he would light a cigarette on give it to me. The first stop would be the first tavern we came to. Uncle Heinie let me sit at the bar and drink a beer with him. I'm beginning to like him more all the time. It always came with the same admonishment.{Don't tell your mother!!} He needen have told me that. I would have died first. Besides, I never told her anything.
I had very little contact with him, until I was seventeen. I was in the Air Force. When I came home to Davenport my first stop would be the Homestead Tavern. Uncle Heinie was the bar tender. Driving a truck interfered with his drinking. He always was so glad to see me. He told me jokes, and stories, and let me drink free beer. I never forgot how much I liked Heinie.
It was about this period that I decided I wanted to be just like him. I thought he was what every man should be. He was single, but had a nice girl friend. On his day off he went to the ball game. He loved the St' Louis Cards. He could drink all day long for free. He lived in a hotel. Not a rooming house, or a boarding place. When he returned home at night the bed was made and his room was clean. He dressed up in a white shirt and tie every day. When he went out he wore a suit. When I thought about it I realized, He was my Hero. Looking back he was probably the first man I ever liked.

Thank you

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
~Ken Keyes Jr
Handbook to Higher Consciousness

Thank you all for being a teacher to me!

Love from Santa Fe