This month the Recipe Redux is looking for our back to school Bars & Bites for Brown Bags. I’m submitting my Chocolate Crumb Bottom Blondies to the group.
The Challenge!
Whether you pack your lunch in a bento box, a brown bag or a retro cartoon character lunch box, don’t forget the bars and bites. Small squares or round bites can pack nutrition into a sweet or savory taste. Show us your favorite way to jazz up any type of lunch box.
If you are unfamiliar with the group, here is an introduction.
As the first and only recipe challenge founded by registered dietitians,The Recipe ReDux is focused on taking delicious dishes, keeping them delicious, but making them better for you. Dietitians Regan Jones (of ReganMillerJones, Inc.), Serena Ball and Deanna Segrave-Daly (both of Teaspoon Communications) founded the group on the belief that healthier eating should always taste delicious. As the Latin term “redux” means to revisit or reinvent, we are reinventing the idea of healthy eating with a taste-first approach. We aim to inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover.
Looking at my blondies, one might wonder, “How do those bites fit the healthier snack bill?”
Chocolate Crumb Bottom Blondies
Yes these bites contain sugar and butter but I toned the blondies down by using yogurt to cut some fat. Homemade chocolate chip cookies without those nasty preservatives replaced store bought cookie pieces.
One of the nice things about this dessert is you get a bit of crunch from the cookie crumb base. You only need a bite-sized piece to satisfy any sweet tooth!
- 1 egg
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup yogurt
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp baking soda
- 1 cup flour
- 5 Tbsp butter melted
- 2 cups cookie crumbs (homemade or purchased)
- 3 T sugar
- Mix sugar and cookie crumbs together. Toss in melted butter. Press mixture into a 8x8-inch square pan.
- Cream together egg, brown sugar, vanilla and yogurt. In a separate bowl mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Stir dry and wet ingredients together.
- Pour batter over cookie base.
- Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool the pan on a wire rack. Wait until blondies are completely cooled to cut.
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