Baking on the Farm- A Barnyard Christmas Freebie

The kitchen is all a buzz on Christmas Eve as Mrs Claus, Paws, and Cluck are busy making Santa's favorite cookies.   Though I am sure after a long busy night delivering presents and eating cookies on his deliveries, he will be quite stuffed once he returns home to rest . 

Do you like to do a lot of baking during the Christmas season?  I do especially when family is over to visit. So I thought I would share one of  the family favorites. 

Magic Bars Chocolate Overload

Ingredients:  

1 box of brownie mix and called for ingredients for the mix

½  c semisweet chocolate chips

½  c peanut butter chips 

½  c peanuts

½ c Reeses Pieces

½ c M & M’s

½  c Heath Bar Toffee Bits

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 9 x 13”  pan with foil and grease  bottom and sides with butter or cooking spray. Make brownie mix as directed and press into pan.  Bake 35 to 38 minutes  or until when you insert a toothpick , it comes out clean. Bring out of the oven and layer the chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, peanuts ( or favorite nuts), Reese’s Pieces, M & M’s  and toffee Bits. Pour sweetened condensed milk over the top . Bake 18- 20 minutes until edges are golden brown and bubbling . Remove and place on cooling rack to cool for a few hours. Once cooled , cut into bars.

 

Doesn't that sound yummy? But like the name says- it is chocolate overload.

Now that your stomach is growling, let's talk about the stitching. Baking on the Farm is the 14th in the Barnyard Christmas series. It is the same size as the others measuring 31 x 31 which on 14 count aida would give a measurement of 2 1/4" x 2 1/4". What I call a quick stitch. 

I stitched 2 of these in an evening on 14 count aida. One was stitched on tea/ coffee dyed aida. The other was on Rit Emerald Green dyed aida that I dipped in a quick bath of tea. 

Did you notice the difference between the two? On the Emerald Green dyed aida stitch , I gave the little kitty a red bow by using 1 strand of DMC 498. I opted not to  put the bow on the tea/coffee dyed ornament. 

If you are interested in stitching Mrs. Claus and the gang, just check out the pdf's below. I have to put each page in separate pdfs because of the devices I am using. 

For Instruction page, click here . 

For the Colored pdf chart, click here . 

For the black and white chart pdf , click here . 

If you missed any of the other charts, you can click on the names below and you will be directed to those charts.  

Previous charts include: 

Chicken Sled ,   Santa's Ride ,  Special Delivery , Christmas Barn, Christmas Bucket, Christmas Tractor , Santa on the Farm,  Mrs. Claus on the Farm , The Stockings Were Hung ,   Santa's Visit  ,  Hanging the Star .

   , Skiing on the Farm , and Farm Truck  .

 I truly hope you enjoy this little chart. Thank you so much for visiting me . Have a lovely rest of the week and as always... 

Happy stitching, ya'll

Melisa

                                   

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