Cinnamon Blondies
By
Joandaw from the Medifast Forums
Instructions:
1
packet of MF Cinnamon Pretzels (1 Meal)
1
tablespoon eggbeaters
1/4
teaspoon baking powder (1/2 Condiment)
1
tablespoon water -OR- 1 tablespoon sugar free syrup - I will omit (1/2
Condiment)
1/8 tsp
Cinnamon - I am adding this next time (1/4 Condiment)
1
packet Splenda - I am adding this next time (1 Condiment)
Cooking
spray (only for blondies made with SF syrup)
Directions:
Pre-heat
Oven to 350. As I always say, do NOT skip this step. Baking in a cold oven
almost always leads to disappointment.
Open
the MF pretzels bag and break the pretzels into small pieces. I do this while
the pretzels are still in the bag, just crunching them up by squeezing the bag.
Opening the bag first is an important step -- unless you don't mind picking up
pretzels pieces when the bag pops. *knowing nod*
Grind
the broken pretzels into a powder. The fastest/easiest way is in a personal
blender like the Magic Bullet or Bella Cucina. If you have a nut/herb chopper
blade, even better. Or you can do this by hand with a mortar and pestle or a
rolling pin (for the rolling pin option, place pretzels in a plastic bag and
roll over the bag).
Add
baking powder and mix thoroughly. I recommend a double-acting baking powder
with aluminum -- these are the best baking powders for items that require a lot
of mixing post addition of the baking powder.
Add
Eggbeaters and mix thoroughly.
Add
water or SF syrup (toasted marshmallow syrup works well) and mix thoroughly.
You'll end up with a "ball" of dough.
Baking
dish prep: first, these instructions are for baking in a GLASS/PYREX baking
dish. If you use a metal pan/cookie sheet, I am telling you that you will end
up with "blondies" that are not cooked on the inside, but overcooked
on the outside. Trust me, you don't want that. *second knowing nod* Use a
glass/pyrex baking dish. Please.
Second,
if you're mixing your dough with water, you don't need to spray the glass/pyrex
baking dish with anything -- these are not nearly as sticky as an item made
with other MF products (e.g., shakes). However, if you use SF syrup instead of
water, spray the baking dish with cooking spray or you'll be leaving half your
blondie in the pan. *one more knowing nod*
Using
your hands, form the "dough ball" into a "brownie" square,
approximately 1/2" thick and place in a glass/pyrex baking dish.
Bake at
350 (in your pre-heated oven for 15 minutes).
Remove
from oven and enjoy!
You can
make these one at a time or six at a time (or any number you want). Just
increase all the ingredients appropriately (double, triple, quadruple, etc) and
when finished baking, cut into the appropriate number of pieces (the number of
pieces should be the same as the number of bags of pretzels you used).
Each
blondie counts as 1 MF meal. Condiment use varies with your chosen ingredients.
If you use water, each Blondie uses 1/2 condiment. If you use SF syrup,
condiment use is 1.
With sweeter changes: 1 splenda packet,
1/8 tsp cinnamon and omitting the syrup it will be 1.75 Condiments
