Cranberry Chocolate Chip Almond Oat and Flax Bars

⁴ Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. ⁵ For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. ⁶ But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (Rom 7)

Ingredients:

Crust

2 eggs

1 cup sugar (or 3/4 cup honey)

4 oz butter (1 stick) softened
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup flax seed (ground)
2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)

Cranberry Sauce

2 cups fresh cranberries

1/2 cup sugar (or honey)

1/4 cup dark chocolate chips

1/4 cup slivered almonds

Directions:

1. preheat the oven to 350 degrees F

2. add the cranberry sauce ingredients to a pan and boil on medium heat until thickened (~ 7 min)

3. beat together the crust ingredients and spread onto the bottom of an olive oil-greased pan

4. spread the cranberry sauce over the crust

5. sprinkle with chocolate chips and almonds

6. bake for ~ 35 min 

Rhubarb Cheesecake

¹¹ Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest to God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences. ¹² We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. ¹³ For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. ¹⁴ For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; ¹⁵ and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. 2 Cor 5

Ingredients:

Crust

1/4 stick butter (2 oz.) softened
1/4 cup water
~1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar

Cheesecake

2 eggs
8 oz cream cheese softened
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Rhubarb

2 cups fresh chopped Rhubarb 
1/2 cup sugar

Directions:

1. boil the rhubarb and sugar on medium heat for ~ 10 minutes or until cooked thoroughly
2. preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
3. use an egg beater to mix the crust ingredients and spread onto the bottom and sides of a large pie pan
4. use an egg beater to blend the cheesecake ingredients and pour over crust
5. spread the rhubarb over the cheesecake batter (some of it will sink)
6. bake uncovered for ~35 minutes

Cake Roll with Peanut Cream (Korean Mozart Cake)

 ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. Rev 21


Ingredients:


6 eggs (separated)
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup honey
1.5 cups whole wheat flour

2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

Peanut Cream

2 tbsp butter softened

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup peanut flour (or 3 tbsp peanut butter)

Directions: preheat oven to 325 degrees F

1. beat the egg yolks, water, and honey on medium speed for 5 minutes

2. beat in the flour and salt

3. beat the egg white until stiff peaks form

4. fold the egg white into the batter

5. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil lined tray

6. bake for 25 minutes at 325 degrees F

Meanwhile, I was giving the blessed and brilliant Selah a science lesson (and my first middle school science tutoring experience)

mom already ate a piece :)

7. roll up with foil into a scroll, let cool, unroll and peel off foil

8. beat together the peanut cream ingredients and spread over entire surface of cake

9. roll up like a scroll again

Mango, Peach, and Walnut Oat Bars

³ We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. ⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.2 Thess 1

Ingredients:

1/4 cup butter softened (1/2 stick)

3/4 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup walnut flour (powdered walnuts)

1.5 cups oat flour (powdered rolled oats)

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 mango, peeled and diced

2 peaches diced

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2. use an egg beater to mix the butter, honey, vanilla, and eggs

3. beat in the walnut and oats flours, baking soda, salt, and, cinnamon

4. use a large spoon to stir in the mango and nectarine

5. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

6. bake for ~ 45 minutes 

Quick Cinnamon Rolls

²³ Yet I am always with you; 
   You hold me by my right hand. 
²⁴ You guide me with your counsel, 
   and afterward You will take me into glory. 
²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but You? 
   And earth has nothing I desire besides You. 
²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail, 
   but God is the strength of my heart 
   and my portion forever. Ps 73

Ingredients:

3 tbsp butter softened

1/4 cup honey

1 cup milk

1 egg

2.5 cups whole wheat flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp dough enhancer 

Cinnamon Filling

2 tbsp butter softened

2 tbsp honey

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. use an egg beater to beat the butter, honey, milk and egg

2. knead in the flour, baking soda, salt, and dough enhancer

3. let the dough sit for 10 minutes

4. use a rolling pin to roll out into large rectangle(s) about 1/4 inch thick

5. spread the filling over the entire rectangle(s) (I ended up making 3 rectangles about 1 square foot each)

6. roll the rectangles like a scroll and slice into 1/2 inch thick pieces

7. place onto baking sheet and bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F

Alternatively, you can fill with a nut-butter/honey mixture. This picture shows these rolls filled with sunflower butter (2 tbsp) + honey (1 tbsp). 

Mom's 50th Birthday Pistachio Strawberry Cake

6 “‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.Lev 26


Ingredients:


3 eggs
1 cup evaporated cane juice
1/2 cup butter  (1 stick) softened
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup pistachio flour (pistachios powdered in the blender)
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt


Frosting


8 oz Neufchatel cheese softened
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice
2 tbsp butter softened


1/4 cup chopped pistachios
sliced strawberries for lining the sides of the cake


Directions


1. use an egg beater to mix the eggs, evaporated cane juice, butter, milk, and vanilla
2. beat in the pistachio flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, and salt
3. pour into a round olive oil-sprayed cake pan
4. bake for ~ 45 minutes at 350 degrees F
5. let cool and remove from pan
6. beat together the frosting ingredients and frost the top and sides of cake
7. sprinkle the chopped pistachios on top of the cake
8. line the sides of the cake with sliced strawberries

Strawberry Sweet Potato Scones

²² Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For,

   “All people are like grass,
   and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
 ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever.” I Peter 1

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

mashed flesh from 1 large cooked orange sweet potato

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup fresh diced strawberries

Directions:

1. beat together the egg, honey, oil, sweet potato, and vanilla

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

3. stir in the strawberries and drop by tablespoonfuls on a baking tray

4. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F

Honey, Lemon, and Olive Oil Squares

¹ “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. ² But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. ³ Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things,” says the LORD Almighty.Mal 4


Ingredients:


3 eggs
1 cup honey
1/2 tsp lemon oil
1/2 cup olive oil

2 tsp vanilla

1/4 cup milk

1 cup whole wheat flour

2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

1. beat together the eggs, honey, oils, vanilla, and milk

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

3. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

4. bake for ~ 45-50 minutes at 350 degrees F

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

Persimmon Walnut Scones

²⁴ “‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. ²⁵ I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Ez 36

Ingredients:

1 egg
3/4 cup honey
3 oz butter softened (3/4 stick)
2 small ripe persimmon diced
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. use an egg beater to beat together the egg, honey, butter, and persimmon
2. beat in the other ingredients
3. drop by heaping tbspfuls onto a baking tray
4. bake for ~ 25 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Angel Cinnamon Cream Rolls

 ¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another:

   “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
   the whole earth is full of his glory.”

 ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

 ⁵ “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

 ⁶ Then one of the seraphs flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”Is 6

Ingredients:

Cake

3 egg white beaten until stiff peaks form

1/3 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup evaporated cane juice

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vanilla

Cinnamon Cream

2 tbsp Neufchatel cheese softened

2 tbsp evaporated cane juice

1 tsp cinnamon

Directions:

1. combine cake ingredients and spread onto a buttter-sprayed foil-lined tray

2. bake for ~ 15 min at 350 degrees F

3. roll up like a scroll with the foil still attached and unroll

4. use a thin spatula to remove the cake from the foil and let cool

5. combine cream ingredients and spread over cake

6. roll up like a scroll and slice 

Cranberry Oatmeal Crisps

¹⁷ But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. ¹⁸ They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” ¹⁹ These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

 ²⁰ But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.

 ²² Be merciful to those who doubt; ²³ save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.^[f]

 ²⁴ To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— ²⁵ to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 


Ingredients:

4 oz butter (1 stick) softened

2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

1 cup evaporated cane juice

1/2 tsp salt

3 cups oats

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup dried cranberries

Directions:

1. combine all the ingredients

2. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray

3. bake for ~ 15-20 minutes at 350 degrees F

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

Sunflower Seed and Cranberry Sweet Potato Casserole

 ¹ Have mercy on me, O God,
   according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
   blot out my transgressions.
² Wash away all my iniquity
   and cleanse me from my sin.

 ³ For I know my transgressions,
   and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned
   and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
   and justified when you judge.
⁵ Surely I was sinful at birth,
   sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
⁶ Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
   you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.Ps 51

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potato

2 eggs

4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)

8 oz evaporated milk

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp whole wheat flour

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup dried cranberries

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

Directions:

1. blend together all ingredients

2. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

3. bake for ~45 min at 350 degrees F

Pumpkin Cheese Cake With Peanut Crust

 ¹ In you, LORD my God,
   I put my trust.

 ² I trust in you;
   do not let me be put to shame,
   nor let my enemies triumph over me.
³ No one who hopes in you
   will ever be put to shame,
but shame will come on those
   who are treacherous without cause.Ps 25

Ingredients:

Peanut Crust

2 eggs
1 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
1/3 cup natural peanut butter
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda

Pumpkin Layer

2 cups mashed cooked pumpkin
1 cup honey
8 oz Neufchatel cheese (1 package)

Directions:
1. mix together the crust ingredients and spread onto the bottom of an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
2. blend together the pumpkin layer ingredients and pour over crust
3. bake for ~ 45 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Cinnamon Oat and Flax seed Bars with Pear Topping

¹³ Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? ¹⁴ But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear^[b]; do not be frightened.” ¹⁵ But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, ¹⁶ keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. ¹⁷ It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. ¹⁸For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, ¹⁹ through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison ²⁰ who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, ²¹ and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²² who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him. I Peter 3


Ingredients:


Bars
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
2 cups oats
1/4 cup flax seeds
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon


Pear Topping
3 pears cored and sliced
juice from 1/2 lemon
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice
1 egg
1 tsp cinnamon


Directions:


1. mix the bar ingredients together and spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
2. toss the pear topping ingredients and arrange on top of the bar batter

3. bake for ~ 40 minutes at 350 degrees F