Another Monday, another round of Meatless Mondays from A-Z! Over the last two weeks, a few other bloggers and I created recipes with Queso and Raisins. Well, I missed Queso week, but my Raisin dish is pretty spectacular if you missed it.
This week is a cooking week, which means all of us choose another blogger’s creation (or another recipe all together) and try it out for ourselves.
I was immediately drawn to these Cinnamon Raisin PB Puffins Bars from Sarah over at A Whisk & Two Wands. I love cinnamon raisin flavored anything. I can also eat peanut butter straight out of the jar, so how could I not give this recipe a go. Plus, it’s only 3 ingredients and doesn’t require any cooking! My favorite kind of recipe.
So I got my Peanut Butter & Co Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter, I bought a box of Original Puffins, and whipped out my agave nectar. The verdict? Epic fail.
Not because of the recipe. Because this gal tried to take a short cut. I didn’t want to put the Puffins through a food processor because I didn’t want to clean said food processor afterwards. Instead, I just crumbled them up by hand (aka punched the bag a few times and then smacked it with a rolling pin). Well, this resulted in my bars not actually forming into bars. They are kind of just crumbly messes. The crumbs taste delicious, but they are quite difficult to eat. Seriously, I felt like Wreck It Ralph. Every time I touched a bar it would fall to pieces.
Let’s compare, shall we? These are Sarah’s gorgeous looking bars:
These are my crumbly messes:
I dub thee an epic Fitful Focus Fail.
I think if I had followed Sarah’s directions and not been a lazy ass, they would have turned out great.
But for now, at least I have a bunch of great tasting crumbles! Maybe I’ll mix them into oats or top a smoothie with them? What do you think I should do with these crumbles?
Check out the full recipe here, and definitely use your food processor!
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Those crumbles still look delicious! I would put them on top of some yogurt 😛
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That’s a great idea! Thanks!
fitfulfocus@gmail.com recently posted…Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter Cereal Bars {MMAZ, vegan}
Hey! I had never seen your website but linked to it for the PB puffin bars. If I could justify it as healthy and not nutritionally lacking in any way I’d probably just live off of bowls of PB puffins and PB and co peanut butter jars, they’re my two favorite foods of all time! I see nothing wrong with delicious crumbles at all, in fact I’d probably take the pretty looking bars and end up crumbling them up into oatmeal or almond milk with scoops of more pb anyways, so you’re just saving yourself a step.
oo yeah! ….supposed to be answering a question here. I’d say agility and strength. I’m really into weight lifting and building up my strength. But the High intensity intervals are a quick way to get my cardio out of the way too!
haha I’m totally with you. Let’s see… peanut butter has protein… and if you add raisins to it you get in a serving of fruit? And the Puffins provide your whole grains! Justification, done!
As for the giveaway, good luck!
fitfulfocus@gmail.com recently posted…Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter Cereal Bars {MMAZ, vegan}
Oh no! Don’t feel bad I wanted them all pretty and whole and first and they didn’t work, yet tasted great, so I we had to do smashed hold together so much better. I did intend on putting the first batch of ours in the food processor and make them into bars but the girls liked them anyways and smashed them into little balls or just put them in a bowl with a little milk and they were gone before I could make them into bars.
Now if you are asking me what I would do with the crumbles…. I would throw them in the freezer (I love them frozen), whip up a batch of banana “ice cream” and add lots of crumbs to my ice cream! I love bananas and peanut butter together!
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OMG on top of banana ice cream is perfect! I may or may not do that tonight 🙂 Thanks for the recipe and for the tip.
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