Miracle Bars

What does one do with corn flakes? Have it straight from the pack as a light snack? Sprinkle sugar and cut fruit over it and eat it for breakfast with some milk? Sprinkle it over ice-cream to make ice-cream healthy? OK, what else?

I sometimes add a banana smoothie to a bowl of cornflakes to make my breakfast a single bowl affair. Did you need any more proof for my laziness? I thought of several things to do with my bag of corn flakes. I didn't want to miss this event. After all, Weekend Breakfast Blogging is an event that celebrates my most important meal. But I couldn't think of doing anything fancy with cornflakes. I could put it in a cake, but then cakes aren't meant to be breakfast. I could put them in muffins, but that would mean that any breakfast or fruit related event in the blogosphere has me thinking of just one item. Although, let me admit that I am not exactly the most creative of folks around this place.

I bought a book last year titled "Chocolate & Baking". I didn't realise it at the time, but this book has all measures in grams and ounces. I am used to books that have measures in cups and spoons. So, for a long time, I just kept looking at the book. Earlier this year, I got myself a kitchen scale. So, I think I can start using this book more often now. This afternoon, I found a recipe for Miracle Bars that I modified. The original calls for coconut and I decided to use cornflakes instead. I have no idea why they're called Miracle Bars. Maybe the mystery will be resolved upon eating them.

100g butter, melted

125g Digestive Biscuits, crushed

175g Chocolate chips

75g Corn Flakes

125g Mixed Dry fruits and Nuts

400g can Sweetened Condensed Milk

A little butter for greasing the tin

Heat oven to 350F.

Grease a 9-inch square tin with butter and line it with butter paper. Pour in the melted butter and sprinkle the crushed biscuits over this. Add the chocolate chips, cornflakes and dry fruits and nuts over this mixture. Pour the condensed milk over this.

Bake for 30 minutes. Allow to cool and cut into squares. I guess these would taste like granola bars. I hope they turn out to be chewy bars as I just discovered S doesn't particularly enjoy the crunchy granola variety. I don't have enough time today to allow the bars to cool and cut them. They just got done and I've taken pictures without cutting.

I hope they are the tasty bars I want them to be. This is my last post for the day and I have to get ready for the wedding this evening. And if I don't post this now, I may be very late for the WBB and Nags will never speak to me. I send this to Nags for the "Weekend Breakfast Blogging #17", the theme of which is Corn Flakes. Happy hosting Nags.