Homemade Cadbury Creme Cupcakes

If you are reading this you are most probably like myself in that you love to read other people's blogs to try to find new recipes to try. It can be such an adventure trying a new dish, sometimes it turns out successful and others we learn lessons about what not to do next time.  For me reading blogs does two things, it teaches me new food recipes and it also teaches me how to better write my recipes.  Because when we are attempting new dishes sometimes we need more help then just the instructions on what to do.  We need more of an understanding about why we are doing this next step and kind of results we are needing from it.  Because without that knowledge that the author has we are often left with disappointing results because we didn't understand why we were meant to beat the cream for 5 minutes and we just quickly mixed up the cream in 1 minute.  So as I struggled some what with this recipe and the results didn't quite turn out how they were meant to, I felt this was a perfect time to show that I too mess up, more times then I would like to, and hopefully pass on the things that I learned so that your results will turn out better then mine.

Homemade Chocolate Dipped Granola Bars

So when I want to the store the other day I was disappointed to find that my favorite granola bar was out of stock.  Seeing as how this has become a staple for our picked lunches I had to come up with an alternative solution.  You see I am very picky about the granola bars I buy for my family, ones that are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup are just not okay with me.  So I decided that this time I would try my hand and making them myself.

So after reading a few different recipes but couldn't seem to find anything that sounded right to me.  So I decided to try my hand at creating my own.  For my first attempt I decided to surprise my husband with some chocolate dipped ones.

When the granola finished baking I was sorry to say it wasn't what I had at first wanted.  On its own it wasn't quite sweet enough.  But funny how things work out because once they were dipped in the chocolate I discovered that the combination was perfect.  Having the granola not too sweet made these a delicious treat that wasn't too sickly on the stomach.  Definitely a winner for my husband.