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 

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 

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 

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

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

Cinnamon Papaya Oat Bars

⁶ This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ⁷ For there are three that testify: ⁸ the^[a] Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. ⁹ We accept man’s testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. ¹⁰ Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. ¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. ¹² He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I John 5


Ingredients:

2 eggs

1 cup fresh pureed papaya 

3 tbsp butter softened

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup honey

3 cups oats

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp cinnamon (and more for sprinkling)

2 tbsp sesame seeds

Directions:

1. stir together all the ingredients except the sesame seeds

2. pour batter into an olive oil-sprayed foil lined cake pan

3. sprinkle sesame seeds and more cinnamon on top

4. bake for ~ 45 mintues at 350 degrees F

Flax, Sesame, and Sunflower Seed Oat Bars

⁸ Come and see what the LORD has done,
   the desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease
   to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
   he burns the shields with fire.
¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth.”

 ¹¹ The LORD Almighty is with us;
   the God of Jacob is our fortress.Ps 46

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

2 tsp vanilla

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

3 cups oats

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 cup sesame seeds

1/2 cup flax seeds

1/3 cup sunflower seeds

2 tsp cinnamon

Directions

1. mix all ingredients and press onto a pan

2. bake for ~ 30 minutes @ 350 degrees F

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

Cinnamon Apple Oat Flaxseed Cake

 ⁶ Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them. ⁷ The LORD said to Moses, ⁸ “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

 ⁹ So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he commanded him. ¹⁰ He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” ¹¹ Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

 ¹² But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”Num 20

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup honey
4 oz butter (1/2 stick)
1 tsp vanilla
2 large apples cored and diced
1 cup flax seed
1.5 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup oats
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt


Directions:
1. mix eggs, honey, butter, and vanilla
2. stir in the rest of the ingredients
3. pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
4. bake for ~ 45 minutes @ 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

Pecan Oat Biscuits

 ⁸ “Judah, your brothers will praise you;
   your hand will be on the neck of your enemies;
   your father’s sons will bow down to you.
⁹ You are a lion’s cub, O Judah;
   you return from the prey, my son.
Like a lion he crouches and lies down,
   like a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah,
   nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,
until he comes to whom it belongs
   and the obedience of the nations is his.
¹¹ He will tether his donkey to a vine,
   his colt to the choicest branch;
he will wash his garments in wine,
   his robes in the blood of grapes.
¹² His eyes will be darker than wine,
   his teeth whiter than milk Gen 49


Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 cup honey
1/4 cup butter softened (1/2 stick)
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup crushed pecans
1 cups oats
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda


Directions:
1. mix the egg, honey, butter, and vanilla
2. stir in the rest of the ingredients
3. drop by spoonfuls (choose the size of your liking) on an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
4. bake at 350 degrees F for 10-15 minutes

Creamy Peach Kiwi Walnut Oat Cake

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸ But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. I Thess 5


Ingredients:


Cake
2 eggs
3/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda

Cream
4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)
1/2 cup honey
1 egg

Fruit
3 peaches diced
2 kiwi fruit diced

Directions:

1. mix together the cake ingredients and pour into an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
2. beat together the cream ingredients and pour over cake batter
3. mix the fruit and spoon over cream
4. bake for 45-60 minutes at 350 degrees F

Banana Oat Walnut Pudding

¹ Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for.

 ³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

 ⁴ By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

 ⁵ By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. ⁶ And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.Hebrews 11

Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas mashed 
1 tbsp yogurt
1 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Directions:
1. mix all ingredients
2. pour into an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined cake pan
3. bake for ~30-40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Cinnamon Apple Walnut Oat Cream Rolls

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. Rom 8


Ingredients:

Roll
1 cup oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1 cup walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda

Cream
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice (or other natural sweetener)

1 extra-large apple sliced into 1/4" sliced

2 tsp cinnamon

2 tbsp crushed walnuts

Directions:
1. mix the roll ingredients and spread in a large circle on an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
2. mix the cream ingredients and spread over circle
3. arrange the sliced apples over the cream
4. sprinkle with cinnamon
5. bake for ~ 30 minutes at 350 degrees F

6. roll up like a scroll (without removing the circle from the foil) and let sit until cool
7. unroll, peel the foil off, reroll, and slice
8. top with crushed walnuts