Peculiar Nest Vegan Friendly Peanut Butter Bars

Peculiar Nest hosts Tiffany Kersten’s Nature Ninja Birding Tours guests during the south Texas birding season. When birding retreat guests stay, I whip up dishes loosely based on random recipes I find online. Because of my 30 plus years of house keeping, I can spot a good recipe when I see one. This one was lifted from twopeasandtheirpod.com but in order to make it fit the dietary needs of various guests, I eliminated butter, substituted flax seed slurry for an egg and halved the sugar. Even then, it turned out a bit too sweet for my taste. Nevertheless very tasty, and many guests asked for the recipe. I decided to post it here before I forget where the original recipe came from. I recommend you use a mixer because creaming peanut butter and sugar together requires lots of arm muscle.

1.5 cups old fashioned oats

0.5 cup all purpose flour

0.5 tsp basking soda

0.25 tsp salt

0.5 tsp cinnamon

1 cup peanut butter

0.5 cup sugar

1 Tbs ground flax seed mixed with 2 Tbs water

1tsp vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Mix all dry ingredients.

3. In a separate bowl, mix peanut butter, sugar, egg and vanilla extract and cream.

4. Combine and stir until mixed.

5. Press onto parchment lined cookie sheet and shape.

6. Bake 15 minutes, let cool and cut into bars.