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breakfast bars or hobbit seed cakes

(1 rating)
karlyn255 avatar
Recipe by
Stormy Stewart
@karlyn255
Mio, MI

These soft chewy breakfast bars will get you through to lunch or work as well as a hiking bar. They energize and keep you feeling full. They are not sweet like most cookies but they really satisfy. Also check out the hobbit seed cakes from this same recipe. will have Eric take a picture of that tonight.

(1 rating)
yield 16 bars
prep time 5 Min
cook time 25 Min

Ingredients For breakfast bars or hobbit seed cakes

  • 1 1/2 stick
    butter (3/4 cup)
  • 2/3 c
    flour or (1/2 wheat germ 1/2 flour)
  • 1 lg
    egg
  • 1/2 tsp
    allspice, ground
  • 1 tsp
    baking powder
  • 2 c
    oatmeal quick cook oats
  • 2/3 c
    pumpkin seeds
  • 2
    chunks chocolate bark
  • 1/3 c
    nuts or other seeds
  • 3/4 c
    brown sugar, firmly packed
  • IF YOU WISH TO MAKE THE HOBBIT SEED CAKES FOLLOW BELOW THIS
  • OMIT THE SEEDS, CHOCOLATE AND NUTS FROM ABOVE AND REPLACE THEM WITH THIS BELOW
  • 1/2 c
    sesame seeds
  • 2/3 c
    milled flax seeds

How To Make breakfast bars or hobbit seed cakes

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • 2
    In a large bowl Partially melt butter in microwave 40 seconds Slice bark squares into small pieces
  • 3
    In the bowl add the remaining ingredients and spread into a greased and floured 9x12 Baking dish. Bake for 25 minutes until a golden brown all the way across. Before they cool score into 4 rows or 4 bars. allow to cook and eat
  • 4
    Hobbit seed cakes Omit seeds, chocolate and nuts from the top recipe and replace with the sesame seeds and milled flax seed. cook and mix as it said above and cook the same amount of time. It will be crispier but still not crispy and denser than the regular recipe. Eric was dancing over this one.
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