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Easy Cake Mix Bars – Perfect for After School

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I was given a complimentary copy of the Simple & Delicious cookbook to review, with no obligation. All opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links meaning I will receive a small commission if you purchase through the link.

I really love the new Simple & Delicious Cookbook from Taste of Home. This recipe for Easy Cake Mix Bars is on page 332 but they are so easy and my kids loved them, I thought I would share them with you. This recipe is doing triple duty this week. My blogger friend, Maureen, at Red Cottage Chronicles does a feature on her blog called Taste of Home Tuesdays. Today is the first time I am participating but it won’t be the last. Taste of Home is one of the regular websites I visit when I’m looking for a particular recipe. I know I can trust the recipes because they are submitted by people like you and me who like to cook. I know their test kitchen tries all the recipes they publish giving me even more confidence that they will not only work, but be good, too.

Second, I’m trying to reinstate my 52 Week New Recipe Challenge so this is week 9’s recipe. Not sure I can catch up by the end of the year but I’ll try.

Cake Mix Bar
Cake Mix Bar

So, after my kids went back to school, I wanted to make a new treat for them when they came home “starving”. I was looking for really easy and also did not want to go to the store for any ingredients. I know, a tough bill to fill. So, I took to my preview copy of the Simple & Delicious Cookbook. This recipe spoke to me…easy, cake mix, white chocolate chips, jimmies. So I set off to make it. When my kids arrived home from school, “starving”, they were pleasantly surprised with their festive treat. These cake mix bars are also perfect for a birthday or holiday. They are so festive with the addition of jimmies. Mix up the jimmies (you may call them sprinkles), using red, green and white for Christmas or pastels for spring. I also think they would make a great base for an ice cream sundae.

If you’d like your own copy, you can purchase through this affiliate link. Or in my shop on my Facebook page.

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Easy Cake Mix Bars

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes

Total Time: 23 minutes

Yield: About 3 dozen

Serving Size: 1 bar

Easy Cake Mix Bars

Ingredients

  • 1 yellow cake mix (I used Duncan Hines)
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup 2% milk
  • 1/3 cup canola oil
  • 1 cup white baking chips
  • 1/2 cup jimmies (sprinkles)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine the yellow cake mix, egg, milk and oil. Stir in white baking chips and jimmies. Spread into a greased 15x10x1 - inch baking sheet.
  2. Bake 18 - 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes our clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.
  3. To freeze the bars: Freeze in freezer containers. Thaw in covered containers before serving.

Notes

The number of bars you get will depend on the size you cut them.

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Joining me this week is fellow blogger and TOH Volunteer Food Editor Maureen from Red Cottage Chronicles who is sharing her review of an easy TOH recipe for Apple Roly-Poly!

 

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Double Chocolate Blondies

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It’s the end of the school year and I wanted to make a tray of goodies for the ladies in the front office at our elementary school. I’ve had this recipe in my “to try” file for more years than I care to mention. I figured this goodie tray was the perfect opportunity to finally try it. I’m making them again this weekend for a Memorial Day potluck party in our neighborhood. They take no time at all to make and I know the kids will love them.

While these have more of a brownie texture, the are like a chocolate chip muffin cookie. You can use any type of chocolate chip you like in this recipe. I only had half a cup of semi-sweet chips so I used half a cup of milk chocolate chips. Any combination would be nice or use one type of chip. Butterscotch chips would be a nice change. Since the recipe only makes twelve you could double it for a larger group and make different variations. If you like nuts, add 3/4 cup of either walnuts or pecans.

Double chocolate blondes are a fun treat. Great to use as a base for a sundae too!

Another serving idea would be a dollop of vanilla ice cream topped with chocolate syrup (or fudge), nuts, and sprinkles. A mini cookie sundae.

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Double Chocolate Blondies

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: Makes 12

Double Chocolate Blondies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup all-purpouse flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 /2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
  • 3/4 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecan), optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375° F. Lightly mist a 12-cup muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. In a small bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt. Stir to combine.
  2. Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in brown sugar. Let cool slightly then stir in egg and butter until smooth. Stir in flour mixture and then chocolate chips and nuts (if using).
  3. Portion out about 1/4 cup of batter into each muffin cup. Smooth tops with the back of a spoon. Bake until just set, 15 - 17 minutes. Let cool completely in pan on wire rack. To remove from pan, gently run the blade of a butter knife around edge and lift out.
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Hershey Bar Pie – What a treat!

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This Hershey Bar Pie is a favorite at our house. I make it for the first day of school. I make it for the last day of school and lots of other times in between. I made it for Easter this year. It’s a recipe I got from a colleague. There really couldn’t be an easier pie to make. The recipe doesn’t call for decorating it with the whipped cream but I thought it needed something extra. There are a few things to note, the first being, don’t buy store brand marshmallows. Use only the Jet Puffed brand. The others, for some reason, do not melt as well as the brand. By regular size Hershey bars, I mean the size like you buy in the supermarket checkout aisle. Don’t rush the cooling process. I’ve made this pie the day before serving it as well as the morning of the day I want to serve it. I garnished the top of the whipped cream with Hershey chocolate eggs for Easter. You could easily use a Hershey Kiss for other times of the year. The Hershey website offers a version of this pie but it is different and probably not as chocoaltey since it uses only 1 candy bar.  I’ll stick with this one! It’s a keeper!

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Hershey Bar Pie

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 4 hours, 20 minutes

Yield: 6 - 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 16 large marshmallows
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 6 full size Hershey Milk Chocolate bars
  • 1/2 pint whipping cream
  • 1 (9-inch) graham cracker crust

Instructions

  1. In medium saucepan over low heat, combine marshmallows in milk and slowly melt, stirring often. Add broken up Hershey bars and stir until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside to cool 15 minutes. In separate bowl, whip cream until very stiff; fold into cooled chocolate until well combined.
  2. Pour pie filling into prepared graham cracker crust and chill several hours until firm.
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