Gluten Free Breakfast Bars

These breakfast bars are great to make ahead and eat throughout the week.

Peanut Butter & Banana Breakfast Bars
Ingredients:
2 3/4 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup honey
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup butter
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2/3 cup coarsely broken banana chips


Directions:
1. Stir oats and honey
2. Add peanut butter, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract. Spread into a 8" square baking dish.
3. Sprinkle with banana chips

Bake at 375* for 20-25 minutes.

If you want to make it a little sweeter you could add chocolate chips or use almond butter rather than peanut butter. You could also drizzle with melted chocolate to make them really delicious.

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Truffle Covered Raspberries

Just in time for Valentine's Day,: Here's a super easy recipe for Truffle Covered Raspberries.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup sugar
11.5 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 tsp. instant coffee
1/4 cup seedless raspberry preserves
11.5 oz dark chocolate chips
fresh raspberries

Directions:
1. In a heavy sauce pan, combine the milk and sugar. Bring to a rolling boil, continue to boil over medium heat, constantly stirring for three minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate chips, instant coffee, and seedless raspberry preserves. Mix until smooth and chill for one hour.
2. Grab about 1 tbsp of the chilled mixture and flatten in your hand. Add a fresh raspberry and roll the mixture into a ball around the raspberry. Place ball onto wax paper. In a heavy sauce pan, melt the dark chocolate chips and poor over the truffles. Chill coated truffles until firm.
3. Cover and store in fridge.

These can be decorated in many ways. You can drizzle them with red candy coating, sprinkle with red sugar, or simply leave them covered in the chocolate coating. Any way you do it, they're delicious!

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Peanut Butter Cookies

Photo Found at Life, Gluten Free.

I have many friends and family with a Gluten allergy, and it can be hard finding yummy recipes for them! These cookies are not only gluten-free, they're extremely simple! For this super easy recipe, you will only need 4 things, sugar, egg, peanut butter, and vanilla extract.
Ingredients:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together, drop onto a nonstick cookie sheet, and bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 min.

Completely simple, right?

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