Hello from TINA KASHIAN! These super moist cookie bars are vegan. They are easy to make with only five ingredients. They can also be gluten free if you substitute gluten free oats. My kids loved these cookie bars and they make a great dessert at home and travel well to an outdoor gathering.
Ingredients:
4 cups whole grain oats (substitute gluten-free oats for gluten free)
1 cup almond butter
¼ cup maple syrup
1 ½ cups mashed bananas (Note: I used two medium-sized bananas, but only one is shown below)
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8 x 8 inch square pan with parchment paper. Leave a couple inches of parchment paper over the sides so that you can easily remove the cookie bars later. Add all of the ingredients, except the chocolate chips, in a mixing bowl and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips. You can reserve a few chocolate chips to add on top of the cookie bars before baking.
Transfer the batter into the square pan lined with parchment paper.
Add some chocolate chips on top (optional). Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the cookie bars begin to turn golden around the edge of the pan. Remove from the oven and let it sit for ten minutes. Then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Cut into cookie bars. Enjoy!
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Hummus and Homicide is the first book in my Kebab Kitchen mystery series.
When Lucy Berberian quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, she knows what she’s getting—the scent of funnel cake, the sight of the wooden roller coaster, and the tastes of her family’s Mediterranean restaurant. But murder wasn’t on the menu…
Things are slow in the off-season in this Jersey Shore town, but Lucy doesn’t mind. She doesn’t even mind waitressing at the Kebab Kitchen. Her parents have put in a new hummus bar, with every flavor from lemon to roasted red pepper. It’s fun to see their calico cat again, and to catch up with her old BFF, who’s married to a cop now.
She could do without Heather Banks, though. The Gucci-toting ex-cheerleader is still as nasty as she was back in high school…and unfortunately, she’s just taken over as the local health inspector. Just minutes after eating at the Kebab Kitchen—where she’s tallied up a whole list of bogus violations—she falls down dead in the street. Word on the grapevine is it’s homicide, and Lucy’s the number one suspect…
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