Hiker Bars

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Title: HIKER BARS
Categories: Usenet
Yield: 1 batch

1/2 c Peanut butter, chunky
1/3 c Butter
2 md Bananas, (mashed)
1/2 c Molasses
1 c Sugar
2 t Vanilla
4 Eggs
1 t Cinnamon
1/4 t Ginger
2/3 c Flour, whole-wheat
1 1/3 c Flour, white
4 c Kellogg's Special K
-cereal (crushed)
1 t Baking powder
1/4 t Baking soda
1/2 t Salt
6 oz Chocolate chips
1 c Peanuts, salted (chopped)
8 oz Dates, chopped (or fewer)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Then by hand: In a large bowl cream
together peanut butter and butter. Mix in bananas, molasses, sugar and
vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg.

Stir in the cereal. Sift together dry ingredients and mix into batter. Add
chips, peanuts and dates. Pour batter into greased 9 x 13 pan. Bake in
preheated 350 degree F. oven for 35 to 45 minutes. Cut into bars.

NOTES:

* Caloric, filling and tasty bars for the trail -- These bars give a
flavorful and filling treat along the trail. The recipe came from Ben
Branch of AT&T Bell Labs at Columbus (cbdkc1!blb). Yield: 24 to 48 bars.

* If by food processor: Yield: Cream butters in processor. Add cut-up
bananas and blend..

* Add molasses, sugar, vanilla. Blend. Add eggs. Blend.

* Pour batter into large bowl and stir in sifted dry ingredients. Stir in
other ingredients, one at a time. Continue as above.

: Difficulty: easy to moderate.
: Time: 1/2 to 1 hour work; 1 hour waiting.
: Precision: approximate measurement OK.

: John Daleske
: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
: {ihnp4,cbosgd,desoto}!cbdkc1!daleske

: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust

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