yes..I know you are all excited. It's a recipe entry!! yay!! Actually this is a going to be a really beautiful entry about the wonderful breakfast bars I've made twice this week. Have any of you ever tried a mazurka at Great Harvest Bread? Well I did one day a few months ago and I think I've had about 20 since then. Every time I take a kid on a date or have some reason to celebrate I go and get one. Mostly it's because they taste awesome..but I've had an ulterior motive. With every bite I've schemed and dreamed of some day making my own version. I woke up Tuesday morning and had a few extra minutes to finally make that dream come true. There is only one slight problem for this post..I'm don't have time to make it again right now and figure out the proportions that I put in. I've gotten to the point where I can tell by the dough if it's got the right balance of moisture and flour and so I didn't measure...sorry. so this is the general idea...The Great Harvest Mazurka is a big bar cookie with the ingredients of oats, coconut, flour, butter, eggs, brown sugar and baking powder. Then they put a cream cheese frosting that I'm assuming has cream cheese, powdered sugar, maybe a little milk and a tri berry mixture of raspberries, blueberries and boysenberries. Some of the berries seep down into the bread mixture but it looks like they didn't mix it into the actual dough. Okay...so every time I've eaten it I've dreamed
of making it so I could eat as much as I want and share the whole thing with all of my kiddos instead of just sneaking away for my own. Here's the way I made it. I decided to add less sugar (I don't like things too sweet for breakfast), use olive oil and omit the eggs. I used about 2 cups of brown sugar and 2 cups of olive oil for 6-7 cups of flour. I added about 2 cups of water to replace some of the moisture lost for the eggs and less fat. (note - this method makes for a little bit less rich but still holds together fine and has plenty of richness for a breakfast food) Then I added about a cup of coconut, some vanilla and almond flavoring. about 1 tsp each. I dumped in about 1 T plus 2 tsp of baking powder. I then added the flour and water alternating making sure the dough looked somewhere in between muffin and cookie dough. (muffin dough would be more wet and cookie dough would be less wet) too wet? more flour too dry? a little more water or oil if you want it richer note: I always use light tasting olive oil. Then I mixed in a triple berry mix(frozen from costco) about a cup of these into the dough. I baked it at 350 for about 20 minutes or until the top looked dry. now you can laugh at this sad excuse for a recipe but I am feeling very very cool that I cracked the mazurka code all by my pretty little self. I didn't put the cream cheese frosting on top so Sasha would eat it too..and because I didnt' have any crystallized fructose to make into powdered sugar by blending it (that powders it for frostings) Result....yum!!
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