Category: Brownies & Bars

Matcha Rice Crispy Treat Christmas Trees

Chewy and gooey and gorgeously green: these festive matcha rice crispy treats are decorated to look like charming Christmas trees, with a natural green color that comes from matcha green tea powder (no food coloring required!) Matcha lovers, this one’s for you! With ample amounts of matcha powder infused in a classic marshmallow cereal treat […]

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Chewy and gooey and gorgeously green: these festive matcha rice crispy treats are decorated to look like charming Christmas trees, with a natural green color that comes from matcha green tea powder (no food coloring required!)

Matcha lovers, this one’s for you! With ample amounts of matcha powder infused in a classic marshmallow cereal treat for a quick and easy holiday treat you’re sure to love (did I mention they make perfect homemade holiday gifts?)

Matcha Rice Crispy Treats cut into triangles and decorated like Christmas trees, one leaning up against a mug of matcha on a marble background.

Holiday rice crispy treats? Yes, please!

I debated whether or not to go full Christmas for this recipe (which, sans decoration, can really be enjoyed any time of the year!) but these tree-shaped treats (or should I say, treets?) were just too darn cute not to share.

You don’t even need cookie cutters (a usual requirement of tree-shaped goodies), as you can cut perfect triangles from a 13-by-9-pan of treats with just a few simple cuts.

Add a little drizzle of white chocolate and a few strategically-placed sprinkles and voila! Delicious and festive Rice Crispmas Treets!

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Fig, Apple & Vanilla Oat Crumb Bars

Fall in love with these autumn-inspired crumb bars featuring a ruby red fig, apple, and vanilla jam between layers of a sweet and salty oat and brown sugar crumb. They are sweet and salty, tender and crunchy, buttery and fruity, all in one delicious bite. These rustic, messy-delicious crumb bars aren’t winning any beauty pageants, […]

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Fall in love with these autumn-inspired crumb bars featuring a ruby red fig, apple, and vanilla jam between layers of a sweet and salty oat and brown sugar crumb. They are sweet and salty, tender and crunchy, buttery and fruity, all in one delicious bite.

These rustic, messy-delicious crumb bars aren’t winning any beauty pageants, but when it comes to flavor and simplicity, they’ll score top marks every time. With a simple oat-based dough that’s used as both the base and the crumb, and a layer of homemade fig, apple and vanilla jam sandwiched in between.

Squares of Fig, Apple & Vanilla Crumb Bars on a marble background, randomly arranged with a bowl of figs and a few cut figs scattered around.

I wanted to make a fall flavored bar cookie of sorts. I knew I wanted a brown sugar and oat crumble with some sort of vanilla-infused fruit filling, but I couldn’t decide if I wanted that filling to be fig or apple.

Fig and vanilla? Or apple and vanilla? Which sounds better to you? That is the million dollar question.

I ended up making a pan of each to bring to ceramics class with me, hoping to crowdsource the decision and help me make up my mind. Ultimately, my classmates liked both versions equally for different reasons (y’all were really no help at all here, lol).

In the end, I did what I often do when I can’t decide: I did both, combining the fig and apple together into a single multi-fruit spread that’s fruity and flavorful and fabulous for fall.

It’s really the best of both worlds.

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