IN INA'S GARDEN with ALMOND BUTTER JELLY BARS
As i said in my previous post i along with my co-hosts are baking PB jelly bars this time round and i did so with almond butter for 2 reasons , i had no skippy around and secondly need to use up all that ground almond which i have.
They are buttery , which always has me grinning, + there is lods of jelly in there , actually a nice jelly layer in between.
\And not jus one type of Jelly/jam but there is some lovely Vanilla Apricot preserve and Goiabada too .
And thats not all , instead of peanuts , one half of the bars are sprinkled with pecans and the other half with macadamia's that with all the baking get well roasted.
Whether i find a silce of one with Macadamia ....
I would love to try these bars with all sorts of nutter butters and maybe with some home strawberry or cherry preserve or maybe blueberry....
And i couldn resist a Vanilla bean or 2 scrapped into the batter too, right while beating the butter , the rest goes into my ever growning number of jars of Vanilla sugar.
And i couldn resist a Vanilla bean or 2 scrapped into the batter too, right while beating the butter , the rest goes into my ever growning number of jars of Vanilla sugar.
HOW TO MAKE UR OWN ALMOND BUTTER
am sure this would be even better with peeled roasted whole almonds but i had ground almonds which i need to use quick and this makes things so fast too.
1 cup almond meal
4 tbh vanilla sugar (more if u want it sweeter like a skippy PB)
pinch of vanilla sea salt
4-7tbh melted salted butter (or canola oil
)
)
a tbh or 2 almond or walnut oil
almond extract a drop or 2 (optional)
Vanilla bean scrapped or Vanilla extract
All u need to do is add all the ingredients into the processor and run till u get smooth creamy butter.
All u need to do is add all the ingredients into the processor and run till u get smooth creamy butter.
Vanilla sea salt in the Almond butter takes things a notch up, as does it in the batter itself.
As does a whole vanilla bean scrapped into the batter + a few drops of sweet buttery dough make me love buttery some more.
I halved the original recipe and used almond butter instead of PB.
Its so easy and comes together pretty fast , specially so if u have a stand mixer , i mean how long would it take to cream butter and Vanilla sugar with a vanilla bean scrapped in ( wanted to zest a little lime but didn in the end) , add in a drop or 2 of almond essence with the almond butter and a large egg , beat some more and fold in the flour with salt and baking soda.
Scrape part into pan , spread ur jam or jelly and scrape the rest..
And ur done , the oven will do the rest (unless u have one like mine thats overheating and keeping me on my feet)...
If u bake this one or any of Ina's recipe , we would totally love to have u add ur post to the linky below for Ina's Garden , all details here.
As does a whole vanilla bean scrapped into the batter + a few drops of sweet buttery dough make me love buttery some more.
Its so easy and comes together pretty fast , specially so if u have a stand mixer , i mean how long would it take to cream butter and Vanilla sugar with a vanilla bean scrapped in ( wanted to zest a little lime but didn in the end) , add in a drop or 2 of almond essence with the almond butter and a large egg , beat some more and fold in the flour with salt and baking soda.
Scrape part into pan , spread ur jam or jelly and scrape the rest..
And ur done , the oven will do the rest (unless u have one like mine thats overheating and keeping me on my feet)...
If u bake this one or any of Ina's recipe , we would totally love to have u add ur post to the linky below for Ina's Garden , all details here.
Now i know how muc u want a slice , so get baking , u still have a couple of days to and link right here or u can link any of Ina's recipes u might have already posted as well.
I think these bars would be wonderful with Nutella too , dont we all have our taste buds excited at Nutella?
Sedning these bars to Sweets for saturday and Sweet indulgences Sunday.
Cheers and love...
Catch u all soonnn..
Mia.
