Quickie Kit Kat Bars

 

Here’s this week’s Meatless Monday entry–Quickie Kit Kat Bars.  Yes, I know it’s candy…but it IS meatless, and it’s by a special fan request

This is an easy snack and I had small amounts of caramel sauce, graham crackers and chocolate chips and some coarse-grained white sea salt, so why not?

Ready in a jif

I had originally planned a peanut noodle bowl for this week, however, when my fans saw this and I said I’d probably post it Friday….well, that’s a LONG time, so I hold off the noodle bowl to NEXT week and publish these homemade candy bars. LOL!

Anyway, I did tell dessert and baking bloggers that as long as it was meatless (and this sure qualifies) it can be posted on my “roundup” here….

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Quickie Kit Kat Bars

These homemade Kit Kat bars are a delicious combination of graham crackers with sea salt, caramel and chocolate.

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Cook Time2 minutes mins

Total Time7 minutes mins

Course: desserts

Cuisine: American

Keyword: candy recipe, caramel, chocolate, graham crackers, kit kat bars

Servings: 10 -12

Calories: 200kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

• 8 sheets graham crackers
• 1/2 cup caramel sauce
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 tbs butter
• 1 tbs coarse sea salt

Instructions

• Line an 8 x 8-inch or 9 x 9-inch pan with aluminum foil.
• Lay out a layer of graham crackers along the bottom. Fill in spaces with pieces of graham crackers so the bottom is totally covered.
• Microwave caramel sauce on HI for 20 seconds, or until it's thinner pourable consistency. Pour over graham crackers, and spread in an even layer.
• Top with the rest of the graham crackers, repeating as in the first layer, with all the spaces filled.
• Microwave chocolate chips and butter on HI for 1 minute. Remove and stir until very smooth. Spread chocolate over top. Chill.
• Top with coarse salt and cut into pieces of desired size

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece | Calories: 200kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 833mg | Potassium: 131mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 89IU | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 2mg

Quickie Kit Kat Bars

Quicke Kit Kat Bars

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Caramel Graham Cracker Parfait

 

Anyone who lives in upstate New York is familiar with a family-owned convenience store called Stewart’s Shops and their famous ice cream.

They own and maintain their own dairies and have a stellar reputation in the area.  One thing they are known for is their ice cream, and it’s many proprietary flavors.

One such flavor is “Crumbs Along the Mohawk,” which is so faintingly delicious, you can’t stop eating it or get it off your brain.

Caramel Graham Cracker Parfait

This heavenly concoction consists of a caramel/graham cracker flavored ice cream with bits of caramel coated graham cracker round thrown in.  One taste and you’re hooked.

I love this so I decided to try to come up not with an ice cream, but an easy dessert that mimicked this flavor.

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Caramel Graham Cracker Parfait

This heavenly concoction consists of a caramel/graham cracker flavored ice cream with bits of caramel coated graham cracker round thrown in.  One taste and you’re hooked.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Total Time15 minutes mins

Course: desserts

Cuisine: American

Keyword: caramel, graham crackers, parfait recipe

Servings: 4

Calories: 435kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

• 1 box instant butterscotch pudding mix
• 1 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 up butterscotch morsels
• 1 tsp vegetable shortening like Crisco--don't use butter or margarine
• 2 whole graham crackers
• 2 cups whipped topping
• 1/2 cup caramel sauce

Instructions

• Place milk and pudding mix in a medium bowl and whisk with a wire whisk for 1 minute. Refrigerate until set, about 1 hour.
• Place graham crackers on a sheet of waxed paper. Melt butterscotch morsels and shortening in a microwave in a microwave-safe bowl for 1 minute on high; stir until no lumps remain. If there are lumps, microwave on high an additional 30 seconds. Pour melted butterscotch over graham crackers, spread to coat evenly. Chill until butterscotch is set.
• Fold 1 cup of butterscotch pudding into the 2 cups of whipped topping. Break the butterscotch-coated grahams into small pieces.
• In parfait or dessert cups, layer this way dividing evenly between 4 dessert cups:
• plain pudding (about 2 tbs)
• caramel sauce (about 1 tbs)
• graham bits (about 1 tbs)
• whipped topping mixture (about 3 tbs)
• repeat 1 more time in all dessert cups
• Decorate top with a dollop of whipped topping and any remaining graham bits.
• Drizzle remaining caramel sauce over the top.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 435kcal | Carbohydrates: 80g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 453mg | Potassium: 215mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 52g | Vitamin A: 247IU | Calcium: 168mg | Iron: 1mg

Caramel Graham Cracker Parfait

 

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Butterscotch Zebras

So, what do you do with an open package of graham crackers where you used part for something else?

You make Butterscotch “Zebras”, of course.  And surprise–they’re diet friendly too.

I had a pack of graham crackers I’d opened to make “bits” for another dish, and I knew there was nothing I could really do with them.  I had tons of graham cracker crumbs, so I couldn’t make those.  Didn’t want to eat them.  Didn’t want to use a big Lock and Lock container just to put 2/3 of this package in.  I also had about a scant cup of butterscotch chips, so the idea came to me to make a candy/cookie concoction similar to what I put in the dessert I’d made with some of the crackers.

So I melted the butterscotch chips–and the same caveat goes for these as melting white chocolate chips–NO LIQUID/MILK/CREAM.  I’d forgotten that but was able to salvage the molten mixture.  OK, it’s texture was more like fondant than ganache, but it could be worked with and it tasted fine.

Speaking of fine taste, that’s these cookies…or candy…or whatever you want to call them.  I gave them a final drizzle of melted chocolate ganache just for effect, but it tastes fine.  Plus I discovered I need a finer round decorating tip!  I’d have liked the chocolate thinner because it would have looked better, but I seem to think the chocoholics would disagree there.

Butterscotch Zebras

• 12 whole graham crackers
• 1 cup butterscotch morsels
• 1-2 tbs Crisco (NOT butter or margarine)
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 2 tbs heavy cream

Prepare a large cookie sheet by laying a piece of waxed paper or parchment across the bottom.  Lay out graham crackers–I left mine whole but you could break them in half or even into individual quarters.


Melt butterscotch chips and Crisco in a microwave-proof bowl for 1 minute at HIGH. Stir.  Keep stirring until there are no lumps.  You may have to microwave for an additonal 10-30 seconds.  


When butterscotch sauce is smooth, pour over graham crackers, trying to pour as evenly as possible to cover most, if not all, of the cracker.  It’s OK if you don’t though.


Place in refrigerator to set butterscotch sauce; about 5 minutes.


When set, prepare chocolate ganache as follows–place the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl.  Add the cream, starting with 1 tbs (that may be all you need). Microwave for 30 seconds and stir until no lumps are in chocolate.  You may have to microwave for an additionsl 10-20 seconds.  


Drizzle over graham crackers.  Refrigerate to set; about 10 minutes.


Makes 24 servings (1/2 a whole graham is a serving)

Butterscotch Zebras

Butterscotch Zebras

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