Ephraim's been telling me about sneaky treat for years, and tonight he finally made it.
Sneaky treat is the concoction that Temple children would make when they had free reign of the kitchen and needed something sweet. (Did you know about this Ma? Am I getting Ephraim in trouble?)
It is made by combining a spoonful of butter with some sugar and cocoa powder, then adding oats. No exact recipe needed.
When he was mixing up the butter and sugar I thought, "I'm not eating that much butter." But once the oats were added, it just looks like granola. Healthy.
He reports it tasted okay. He says it's not amazing. That's why he hasn't made it this whole time. Apparently, it's the aspect of sneaking the forbidden treat that gives it its true taste. That forbidden flavor is lost when it's your own home and you've bought the ingredients, and no one's going to come home and discover missing butter and get suspicious. I wonder what my kids' sneaky treat will be.
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Yeah, the whole thing about sneaky treat was that we had NO other treats in the house to sneak, so we made our own! It was the closest thing to cookie dough, or no-bakes that we could mix quickly in a cup. The sneaky part would be trying to keep it from all brothers and sisters, as well as parents, and (most often) to get it outside where one would be able to eat in peace :)
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