Special Healthy Granola Bars for Prasanna and Baby

²¹ When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,
²² Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
²³ Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.
²⁴ With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but You?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
²⁷ For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who  are unfaithful to You.
²⁸ But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.Ps 73


Ingredients:


2 eggs (protein)
1 cup evaporated cane juice (or brown sugar)
1/4 cup molasses (iron, Mg)
1/2 cup powdered walnuts (omega 3)
1/4 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup softened butter (1/2 stick)
~ 3 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup naturally sweetened chocolate chips
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon


Directions:


1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F
2. mix together all ingredients thoroughly 
3. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray (~ 12"X16")
4. bake for ~ 30-40 minutes 

Chocolate Cookie Wedges

⁵ “My covenant was with him, a covenant of life and peace, and I gave them to him; this called for reverence and he revered me and stood in awe of my name. ⁶ True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many from sin.

 ⁷ “For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, and from his mouth men should seek instruction—because he is the messenger of the LORD Almighty. Mal 2

Ingredients:

2 eggs

3 tbsp butter softened

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup evaporated cane juice

1.5 cups white whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup chocolate chips (naturally sweetened)

Directions:

1. beat together the eggs, butter, vanilla, and cane juice

2. beat in the flour, baking powder, and salt

3. divide the dough into two balls

4. press one ball onto a cookie sheet into a 6" diameter circle

5. spread chocolate chips over the circle

6. press and flatten the remaining dough ball over the chocolate chips

7. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F or until golden brown

8. let cool and cut into wedges

Sunflower Seed Oat Cake with Chocolate Topping

⁵ Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord^[c] at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. ⁷ In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

 ⁸ In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. ⁹ But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”^[d] 10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.Jude

Ingredients: 

Cake

1/2 cup sunflower butter

4 oz neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)

2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup honey

3 cups oats

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Chocolate Topping

3 oz unsweetened chocolate (melted in microwave)

1/4 cup honey

Directions:

1. mix the sunflower butter, cheese, vanilla, eggs, and honey

2. stir in the rest of the ingredients

3. pour into an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

4. mix the chocolate topping ingredients and spread completely over the cake batter

5. bake for ~45 minutes at 350 degrees F

Fudge Squares

³ Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. ⁴ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about^[b] long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.Jude


Ingredients:

16 oz naturally sweetened chocolate chips

8 oz evaporated milk

1/4 cup evaporated cane juice

Directions:

1. heat all ingredients under low heat under chocolate chips melt

2. continue stirring until the mixture is smooth

3. spread onto a wax-lined pan and let cool in the fridge for ~ 4 hrs

4. cut into squares

Chocolate Frosted Cupcakes

 ⁶ “Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. ⁷Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. ⁸ Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. ⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.Josh 1


Ingredients:


1 egg
5 oz butter softened
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered evaporated cane juice
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup naturally sweetened chocolate chips

2 tbsp colorful sprinkles (naturally sweetened preferable)

Frosting

2 tbsp Neufchatel cheese softened

2 tbsp butter softened

3/4 cup powdered evaporated cane juice

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:


1. mix the egg, vanilla, butter, and sugar
2. stir in the flour, baking soda, salt, chocolate chips, and sprinkles

3. drop by heaping tbsp-fuls into a lined muffin tray (divide equally in 12 cups)

4. bake for ~ 30 min at 350 degrees F, let cool

5. blend together frosting ingredients and frost cupcakes

Sweet Potato Walnut Cocoa Dessert

⁶ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. ⁷ The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸ You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, ¹⁰ if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 30


Ingredients:


Crust
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup honey
1 cups walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)

2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Cocoa Layer

4 eggs

2 cups sweet potato pureed

1 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 tbsp butter softened 

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:

1. mix crust ingredients and pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

2. mix cocoa layer ingredients and pour over crust

3. bake for ~ 45 minutes at 350 degrees F

Chocolate Cheesecake Bars with Peanut Oat Crust

¹² Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ ¹³ If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”

 ¹⁴ The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

 ¹⁵ Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. ¹⁶ How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

 ¹⁷ And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”

 ¹⁸ Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”

 ¹⁹ And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. ²⁰ But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

 ²¹ Then the LORD said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. ²² When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. ²³ Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”Ex 33

Ingredients:


Crust
1 egg
1 cup honey
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 cups oats
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup whole wheat flour


Cheesecake Layer
8 oz Neufchatel Cheese (1 package)
1 cup honey
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 egg


Directions:
1. mix the crust ingredients and spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
2. blend the cheesecake layer ingredients and pour over crust
3. bake for ~ 40 minutes at 350 degreed F

Chocolate Cream Walnut Oat Bars

²² “Joseph is a fruitful vine,
   a fruitful vine near a spring,
   whose branches climb over a wall.
²³ With bitterness archers attacked him;
   they shot at him with hostility.
²⁴ But his bow remained steady,
   his strong arms stayed limber,
because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob,
   because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
²⁵ because of your father’s God, who helps you,
   because of the Almighty, who blesses you
with blessings of the heavens above,
   blessings of the deep that lies below,
   blessings of the breast and womb.
²⁶ Your father’s blessings are greater
   than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
   than the bounty of the age-old hills.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
   on the brow of the prince among his brothers.Gen 49


Ingredients:


Walnut Layer
2 eggs
1 cup honey
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
2 cups oat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Chocolate Cream
8 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1 package)
1/2 cup evaporated cane juice (or other natural sweetener)
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

Directions:
1. stir the walnut layer ingredients and spread onto the bottom of an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
2. blend together chocolate cream ingredients and pour over walnut layer
3. bake for ~45 minutes at 350 degrees F

Chocolate Pumpkin Soup

¹⁵ Then he blessed Joseph and said,

   “May the God before whom my fathers
   Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd
   all my life to this day,
¹⁶ the Angel who has delivered me from all harm
   —may he bless these boys.
May they be called by my name
   and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they increase greatly
   upon the earth.”Gen 48

Ingredients:
32 oz canned pumpkin
4 lb chocolate chips
8 cups milk
4 cups half and half


Directions:
1. bring milk to a boil
2. add the chocolate chip and continue stirring under medium heat under chocolate chips are melted
3. add the pumpkin and half and half and bring to a boil
4. serve warm

Cocoa Sweet Potato Cream Squares

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

 ¹¹ By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

 ¹³ All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. ¹⁴ People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11

Ingredients:
3 eggs
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes (I used Oriental yellow sweet potatoes)
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
2 tsp vanilla
1  cup evaporated cane juice (or other natural sweetener)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Directions:
1. mix the eggs, potato, cheese, vanilla, and juice
2. stir in the cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda
3. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
4. bake for ~30 minutes at 350 degrees F
5. cut into small squares

Walnut Brownies

 ³ “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
   all you who remain of the house of Israel,
you whom I have upheld since you were conceived,
   and have carried since your birth.
⁴ Even to your old age and gray hairs
   I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
   I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

 ⁵ “To whom will you compare me or count me equal?
   To whom will you liken me that we may be compared? Is 46

Ingredients:
5 oz melted unsweetened chocolate
4 oz butter softened (1 stick)
1 cup evaporated cane juice
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)


Directions:
1. mix the chocolate, butter, cane juice, eggs, and vanilla
2. stir in the dry ingredients
3. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
4. bake for ~ 40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Chocolate Sweet Potato Bars with Molasses Oat Crust

¹⁷ “Behold, I will create 
   new heavens and a new earth. 
The former things will not be remembered, 
   nor will they come to mind. 
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever 
   in what I will create, 
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight 
   and its people a joy. 
¹⁹ I will rejoice over Jerusalem 
   and take delight in my people; 
the sound of weeping and of crying 
   will be heard in it no more.

 ²⁰ “Never again will there be in it
   an infant who lives but a few days,
   or an old man who does not live out his years;
he who dies at a hundred
   will be thought a mere youth;
he who fails to reach a hundred
   will be considered accursed.
²¹ They will build houses and dwell in them;
   they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
   or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
   so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
   the works of their hands.
²³ They will not toil in vain
   or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,
   they and their descendants with them.
²⁴ Before they call I will answer;
   while they are still speaking I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
   and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
   but dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
   on all my holy mountain,”
            says the LORD.Isaiah 65

Ingredients:


Crust:
2 eggs
1 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
1.5 cup whole wheat flour
1.5 cups oats
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Chocolate Layer:
1 egg
2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
2 cups mashed sweet potato (I used Louisiana sweet potatoes which are yellow)

1 cup honey
1/2 cup cocoa powder


Directions:


1. for the crust, mix the egg, honey, and molasses
2. stir in the flour, oats, baking soda, and salt

3. spread crust batter onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

4. mix together the chocolate layer ingredients and pour on top of the crust batter

 and spread level with a spoon
5. bake for ~30-40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Dark Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

 ¹ “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
   I was found by those who did not seek me.
To a nation that did not call on my name,
   I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
² All day long I have held out my hands
   to an obstinate people,
who walk in ways not good,
   pursuing their own imaginations— Isaiah 65


Ingredients:
4 oz butter softened (1 stick)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup evaporated cane juice
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup oats
1/2 cup naturally-sweetened dark chocolate chips

Directions:
1. mix the butter, vanilla, eggs, honey, and cane juice
2. stir in the salt, baking powder, flour, oats, and chocolate chips
3. drop by tablespoonfuls on a foil-lined tray
4. bake for ~15 minutes at 350 degrees F

Peanut Banana Chocolate Squares

¹ I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever;
   with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.
² I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
   that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

 ³ You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,
   I have sworn to David my servant,
⁴ ‘I will establish your line forever
   and make your throne firm through all generations.’” Ps 89

Ingredients:


Chocolate Layer:
2 eggs
1/2 cup honey
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp baking soda
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 cup whole wheat flour


Peanut Banana Layer:
2 ripe bananas mashed
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup peanut butter
4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)
1 egg
1/2 cup honey


Directions:
1. mix the eggs, honey, butter for the chocolate layer: stir in the flour, cocoa, and baking soda
2. blend together the ingredients for the peanut banana layer (with an egg beater)
3. spread the chocolate layer ingredients on an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
4. pour the peanut banana batter on top
5. bake for ~50-60 minutes at 350 degrees F

Chocolate Biscuits

¹³ For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.¹⁴ I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. ¹⁵But when God, who set me apart from birth^[a] and called me by his grace, was pleased ¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, ¹⁷ nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.Gal 1


Ingredients:
8 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1 package)
2 eggs
1/2 cup evaporated cane juice
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1.5 cups whole wheat flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:
1. mix the cheese, eggs, cane juice, and vanilla
2. stir in the salt, soda, flour, and cocoa
3. drop by heaping tablespoonfuls onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
4. bake for ~20-30 minutes at 350 degrees F

Cherry Peanut Butter Brownie Squares

⁶ Seek the LORD while he may be found;
   call on him while he is near.
⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way
   and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
   and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

 ⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
   neither are your ways my ways,”
            declares the LORD.
⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
   so are my ways higher than your ways
   and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

Is 55

Ingredients:
2 cups brownie crumbs (I used this recipe)
3 eggs
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped and pitted cherries


Directions:
1. mix the brownie crumbs, eggs, honey, peanut butter, and vanilla
2. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined cake pan
3. sprinkle with cherries
4. bake for ~30 minutes at 350 degrees F

Brownies with Nutrients

 ⁵ But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) ⁶ Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? ⁷ Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” ⁸ Why not say—as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved.Rom 3


Ingredients:
1/2 cup molasses
1 cup pureed dates (put dates in the blender)
7 Mozzarella cheese sticks powdered in the blender/food processor
1 tsp vanilla
6 eggs
2 cups pureed kidney beans
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1 whole wheat flour

Directions:
1. mix molasses, dates, vanilla, eggs, and beans
2. stir in salt, baking soda, and flour
3. spread on large olive oil-sprayed foil-lined cake pan
4. bake for ~ 40 minutes at 350 degrees F