One of my favorite parts of traveling is the variety in cuisine. It is always nice to taste the different kinds of food around the world and compare them to back home. Since we are not always able to travel to our dream destinations when we want, preparing treats at home is a way to get a ‘taste’ of other countries from your home kitchen.
South African Chocolate Crunchies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup oats
- 1 cup coconut
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tbsp cocoa
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup margarine
- 2 tbsp syrup
- 1 tsp baking soda
Ingredients for Icing:
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp milk
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Mix all the dry ingredients for the crunchies, except for the baking soda.
- Melt the butter and syrup together. Mix in the baking soda.
- Combine the dry and wet ingredients, mix well.
- Press into a medium sized greased baking pan, about 10 by 8 inches. Use the back of a spoon to press the mixture together and smooth the top.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 350 F.
- In a bowl, mix together the icing ingredients.
- Put in the microwave for 1 – 2 minutes, until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour the hot icing over the hot crunchies to cover their entire surface. 10. Cut into squares when cool.
Thanks to Little Passports for sharing this recipe with us.
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We’re huge fans of Little Passports and use them as our geography curriculum for our homeschool (1st grade). I love that they always include information, recipes and even a little token from the featured country. We’re doing their United States program right now and when we’re done with that we’ll probably go back to the world program.
And those bars look amazing!
looks so delicious… thanks for sharing…
These look delicious.
I am excited to make these treatsI love trying things from different countries.
These look so yummy!
These sound so good. Just my kind of snack. Thank you for this great recipe
These are so good. I love most anything with chocolate. Thank you again for the great recipe
This recipe looks fun, and I love dark chocolate.
This looks really good. We may have to try it. I haven’t had this before. Thank you for sharing.