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Earnest Eats

7 Dec

My husband is a lover of Honest Tea organic fresh brewed bottled tea. When I was perusing the food aisle at Marshall’s and saw some chocolate bars labelled “Earnest Eats”, I thought “Hey I gotta give these a shot!” Earnest Eats makes whole grain partially organic delicious treats. Chocolate peanut butter looked especially tasty; one cannot go wrong with that flavor combination.

Earnest Eats Choco Peanut Butter Bar

My husband grabbed one in a rush for breakfast one day and called me minutes later; “You have got to get more of these bars!”

The plague of Marshall’s is sometimes you find great foods that you can only locate online thereafter. I found some at Alice – the online supermarket with free shipping for 6+ items – but lo and behold price comparison shopping to the rescue! Amazon offers a subscription to bring the pricetag per bar to under $1! Not bad considering the lowest I see stuff like this is $.69 each.

Eagerly awaiting my shipment to arrive…

Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

15 Jan

I needed a delicious treat, so I pulled out my trusty favorite pastry cookbook (Biggest Book of Cookies – you will need no other pastry cookbook!) and thumbed through until I found this sweet delight.

Pumpkin Bar with Cream Cheese Frosting

I highly recommend this option from the book. I shared it with about 15 people and the average rating was about an 8.5.

The cream cheese frosting really made the treat. Half of a brick of cream cheese, half of a stick of butter, and one teaspoon of vanilla mixed together. The recipe says then to add powdered sugar starting with 1 cup and then adding an additional 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups, but I found that about 2 1/2 cups total sufficed for me. Of course add more or stop adding to reach the consistency you like. I think the slight less firm consistency of the frosting is what added to this pastry’s draw.

My mouth is watering just looking at it. Seriously, this bar is amazing. So carrot-cake like, yet retaining the hints of pumpkinish goodness.

UPDATE:
I happened to look at my tracking and it looks like this image was used in a newspaper blog post – the News Gazette. Hurray for beautiful food photos!