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This recipe takes me back to my childhood. But it almost didn’t happen.

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Grandma D’s Special K Bars

1/2 c Butter (or margarine), i.e. 1 stick 1 c Karo Syrup 1 c Brown Sugar Pinch Salt Bring to a boil and boil for 3 Minutes

Then add 1/2 c Peanut Butter 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract & Stir

In a large bowl, pour this mixture over 6 c of Special K cereal (5 c if you want the bars more gooey) & stir

Pour cereal mixture into a sprayed 9 x 13 pan and press mixture down well. Freeze or refrigerate if the house is warm and you need these to set up fast, otherwise the counter top is fine.

Optional: Frosting I like my Vegan Chocolate Frosting Or you can use my Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Oil Frosting Or use store bought or omit frosting.

Pictures of the process

Ingredients needed to make Special K Bars - 11 Ingredients needed to make Special K Bars - 12 Pan with butter, brown sugar and Karo Syrup - 13 Pan with butter, brown sugar and Karo Syrup - 14 Melted butter, brown sugar and syrup bubbling - 15 Melted butter, brown sugar and syrup bubbling - 16 Jar of peanut butter - 17 Jar of peanut butter - 18 Scoop of peanut butter being added to butter mixture - 19 Scoop of peanut butter being added to butter mixture - 20 Vanilla added to mixture - 21 Vanilla added to mixture - 22 Special K Cereal in bowl - 23 Special K Cereal in bowl - 24 Liquid mixture added to cereal and stirred up - 25 Liquid mixture added to cereal and stirred up - 26 Special K Bars pressed into pan - 27 Special K Bars pressed into pan - 28 Close up of bars pressed in pan - 29 Close up of bars pressed in pan - 30

Now Make Frosting! Vegan Chocolate Frosting Or try Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Oil Frosting

I made Vegan Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate chips in bowl - 31 Chocolate chips in bowl - 32 Melted chocolate chips being stirred - 33 Melted chocolate chips being stirred - 34 Butter being added to melted chocolate - 35 Butter being added to melted chocolate - 36 Powdered sugar added to chocolate mixture - 37 Powdered sugar added to chocolate mixture - 38 Frosting spread over Special K Bars - 39 Frosting spread over Special K Bars - 40 Close up of Special K Bars - 41 Close up of Special K Bars - 42

After taking it out of the freezer and scoring it, here was what I had been waiting my adult lifetime for

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Please let me know if you make these. My Grandma would be thrilled. She would literally say the Rosary if she only knew that I am sharing this recipe of hers.

From my last post, thanks for filling me in on if you like Posts that have Tips included . Most everyone said yes please. Like my French Press Coffee tips to Free Book Tips from this morning.

And thanks for filling me in on things you’d like me to write about in the future. It’s nice to know what you find interesting and want to see more of.

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Questions 1. Do you have recipes from your childhood that you remember fondly? I definitely have lots of them.

From my mom’s Broccoli Salad (yes, I loved broccoli as a kid and still do. Raw Broccoli Salad & Broccoli Slaw Dressing is a staple for me) to my Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (no one makes them like Grandma!) to all the holiday recipes and baking I used to help my mom and grandma with in the kitchen. It all makes me smile so much when I think back!

  1. Do you have grandmas, aunts, your mother, or people in your family who cook without recipes or who don’t write things down? I admit I usually don’t follow recipes. Heck, I hardly make the same thing twice, even within my own arsenal of recipes. And sometimes don’t even follow my own recipe if I make something a second time. I am the queen of winging it.

The pitfall of course is that everything is stored upstairs. Gray matter. Nothing is written down on paper.

But that’s the beauty of my blog. Everything is written here.

One of my goals is to have my blog turned into a book(s), just for myself and Skylar. (google “Blog into Book” and tons of sites do this)

I want Skylar to have all these pictures of herself in book form. And it will be fun when I’m 80 to look back and see what I was cooking when I was in my 30s. The only way to ensure that is to have my blog bound into a book.

But I encourage you to urge, beg, and plead those elderly aunts, grandmas, and relatives who cook without writing things down, go sit with them and take notes as they dictate recipes. I wish to God I had.

  1. Are there things that no one else but a certain relative makes that no matter how many times you try, it’s just not the same as theirs? My Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. No one can get them like hers.

As well as her homemade bread, cinnamon rolls, and all her Polish and Russian Soul Food. No one whips up pierogies and Russian Tea Cakes like Grandma could.

See you tomorrow!