Fat To Skinny
Recipe Exchange => Desserts and Sweets => Topic started by: umpa on August 31, 2010, 02:33:54 PM
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Magic Bars
Ingredients
* 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
* 1 1/4 cups Dixie Diner graham cracker pie crust mix
* 7oz condensed milk (recipe below)
* 1cup chocolate chips (recipe below)
* 3/4 cups unsweetened coconut
* 1/2 cup chopped nuts, any kind
makes 16 servings
****1 ½ carbs per bar****
Heat oven to 350 .
Coat 9x9-inch baking pan or pie pan with no-stick cookingspray.
Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter. Press into bottom of prepared pan.
Cook in 350 oven for 15 minutes.
Pour condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture. Layer evenly with chocolate chips, coconut and nuts. Press down firmly with a fork.
3. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Cut into bars . Store covered at room temperature.
Condensed Milk
Ingredients
7 oz heavy cream
¼ cup xylitol
1/4 tsp xanthan gum
Mix all ingredients in a small saucepan with a wire whisk
.Bring to a boil over medium heat.
Simmer 5 minutes uncovered .
Turn off heat
Once cooled use for recipe
Do not make more condensed milk than you need for recipe.It does not store well.
Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
2 squares unsweetened bakers chocolate
1/4 cup xylitol
1/4 cup cream
Melt chocolate in microwave safe dish.
Take out of microwave and add xylitol and heavy whipping cream and mix well.
Pour out into 9x9 pan,plate or pie pan and put in the freezer.
Freeze for 3 hours. Once frozen break into pieces and use for recipes .
A pastry bag may be used to make chips also. Let chocolate come to room temperature and put in pastry bag and squeeze chips out onto parchment or wax paper. Then freeze and use as needed.
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This looks great!! I'll keep this in mind for Christmas baking time. I said I wasn't doing any baking this year at Christmas because I thought I couldn't have anything. Well this is wonderful to have FTS friendly recipes so now I don't have to go without. Thanks Umpa!!
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Umpa!!!......this is great.......I could use your condensed milk recipe for the "Lorelei Frozen Key Lime Pie"!!
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Shihtzumom1 thats what makes fat to skinny work darlin, we don't have to go without anything just Ask Umpa! ;D
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Hi Umpa,
This looks yummy but there are two ingredients that aren't very clear in the "chocolate chip" recipe;
2 squares
1/4 xylitol
Thanks!
Tony
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Umpa, you are my hero!!!!!!! These look so much like the real thing I can't even believe it! I can't wait to make them.
OK one last question...have you ever made graham cracker crust from scratch as opposed to using Dixie Diner? For these bars, it's definitely important that the crust taste graham-y so if Dixie Diner is the best then I'll definitely go with that. Just curious for this and other recipes!
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on my "to do list" umpa,i finally got to use my xylitol to make brownies yesterday.... when they are gone this will be my next "sweet" endeavor!!!!!! ty umpa & doug
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wow can't wait to make these....but....is there anything I can use to substitute the Dixie grahams so I don't have to order? I need to put an order in soon but it would be great if I could get something from the store and not have to pay shipping.
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I want these but cant afford the graham crackers and it seems SO complicated for beebs.... :-\
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According to Dixie Diner, here's the ingredients in their Graham Cracker Pie Crust:
Pecans, almonds, soy flour, soluble vegetable fiber, flax seeds, soy lecithin, low glycemic index monosacharide, low glycemic index fruit concentrate.
So I might give it a try making my own "graham cracker crust" using ground up pecans, almond flour, flax meal and some vanilla extract or something.
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Yes Umpa, this is why we are all doing so well with this new way of life, we can "have our cake and eat it too"!!! Love it!!!
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Graham Cracker Crust Alternative (same carb count as Dixie Diner so doesn't change the 1.5g per bar)
Ingredients
2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted 0g carbs
3/4 cup almond flour 6g carbs
1/2 cup ground pecans 4g carbs
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 0g carbs
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 0g carbs
2 tablespoons xylitol 0g carbs
1/8 teaspoon sea salt 0g carbs
1 tbsp egg white, beaten 0g carbs
Mix together all ingredients except the egg white. Beat egg white with a fork and measure out one tablespoon of it. Add to crust ingredients and stir until a dough comes together. Press crust into pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 15 minutes. Resume Magic Bars recipe above.
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Yippee!I am out of the dixie diner grahams
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Mouseissue- 2 squares unsweetened bakers chocolate and 1/4 cup xylitol
shultzkr01- this is the only graham cracker replacement i have found, regular graham crackers are too high.If you find another please share.
Beebs it is very easy.Just make your condensed milk and chocolate chips first and then throw it in the pan .Very easy!!
Izzet- dixie diner is offering free shipping for the next three day.I just got the email.
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umpa, you ROCK the FTS World ;) ;)
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WE WILL,WE WILL, ROCK YOU! :D :D :D
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Hrmmm no xantham gum here...
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How about guar-gum? That would also work.
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walmart sells it beebs:)
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My walmart doesnt. I looked yesterday.
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beebs.... its not in the GUM section:) its with the baking items:)
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Im aware of this ...... :P
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Beebs my is bobs red mill.I bought it at the grocery store.Its very common.I originally bought it for gravy its a thickner, but unlike cornstarch its a zero.Omit it if you can't find it just brush on the liquid so you don't use too much. ;)
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It seems like a lot of trouble to make these bars...but at 1.5 carbs per bar, it's probably worth it.
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Kathy it is very easy.You just make your chocolate chips ahead of time.I make extra and keep them in the freezer for recipes so when I need them I have them.These are AMAZING!!!Make them and you can thank me later! :D
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Hey umpa...I tried making the chocolate chips, but they didn't seem frozen enough after 3 hours, so I left them overnight. The next day they were about the same though. I broke them up into chocolate chunks but they are still softer than I expected. Does that sound normal or do yours actually get hard like regular chocolate chips?
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Mine get hard but i can still chop them with a knife.Does that answer your question?I make a large batch at a time because of the Bakery book.I am trying to master chocolate chip cookies right now for the book. ;)
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Yum, chocolate chip cookies!!! That is what I am missing most!! Can't wait for that recipe!
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i am going to make a chocolate chip pancake for breakfast with the 1 minute muffin recipe. i have to make a batch of these chocolate chips to keep on hand for that.
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I'll be at your house in the morning, what's your address!!!!! ::)
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Doug, you guys are welcome any time!
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Looking for a really special dessert for the holidays? Give these a try, they are ooey, gooey goodness!
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I should have named it ooeey gooey goodness! :D :D :D These would be great for thanksgiving treats! 8)
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No, you should have named them Sinful Delight :D
These are the bombdiggitysmack!! :D
When I made the condensed milk I wanted to lick the pan!
I am in heaven with these!
Genius, just genius. ;D
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We aim to please!! :D Thanks for the feedback!
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No, you should have named them Sinful Delight :D
These are the bombdiggitysmack!! :D
When I made the condensed milk I wanted to lick the pan!
I am in heaven with these!
Genius, just genius. ;D
hehehehehehehehe "bombdiggitysmack!" roflol
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Umpa, is there a way to thicken the cream to a more pudding like consistency? Or do you have a vanilla pudding recipe? I have a delicious recipe for a treat that needs vanilla pudding...just wondering if I should use the sugar free instant kind, or if you have something. Once I get it, I will post my treat! ;D
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Great recipe Marty but splenda has carbs.Its one carb per little yellow packet.So add the carbs in or use stevia or xylitol. ;) If I want pudding you can use my ice cream recipes in the Bakery Book ,like peanut butter, or just whip some heavy whipping cream in the stand mixer and add flavorings and sweetner. ;)
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Ok, I think I'll swap the xylitol. My treats use vanilla pudding plus confectioner's sugar to make a firm sweeeeeeeet pudding. This should work. Give me a few days and we'll see! Thanks Marty and Umpa! ;D
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Yes Marty.sometimes a 1/3 of xylitol so taste.i don't like splenda because it isn't all natural and has carbs.I like Stevia which you can grow and xylitol which is birch bark. ;)