This recipe is delicious and healthy, no High Fructose Corn Syrup or any refined sugars. I made them for my son's class for a snack and they were very well liked, in fact, one of the students said they were the best granola bars ever.
This is just the base recipe, you can add whatever nuts, fruits, wheat germ, flax seeds, or anything that may be good in them.
Heathly Granola Bars
4 cups Old Fashioned Oats
2 cups Chopped Nuts - whichever kind you prefer
1 1/3 cups Sucanat
1 cup Honey
1/2 cup Butter
4 tsp. Vanilla (you may add different flavorings, Almond, maple etc.)
1 tsp Kosher Salt (Regular may work just as well, may cut back a tad bit)
1/2 cup Craisins, or whichever fruit you prefer.
Preheat oven to 350* Mix the nuts and oatmeal together and spread onto a cookie sheet.
Toast in the oven until a golden brown.
Meanwhile, get your 9x9x13 pan ready by lining it with wax paper or foil. Lightly spray the wax paper with cooking spray.
Keep checking on the oatmeal mixure to make sure it doesn't get to toasted. ( I like to forget this alot and have to start over). After it is toasted, dump carefully into a large bowl and set aside.
In a saucepan combine Sucanat, honey, butter, vanilla, and kosher salt. Bring barely to a boil and then remove from heat.
Pour over the oatmeal mixure and add your fruit. Stir
well to make sure you coat everything evenly.
Pour the entire mixture into your prepare pan, cover
with more wax paper or foil and press firmly over the
entire pan to make sure your bars don't crumble
apart when they are cool.
Set aside and let completely cool (2-3 hours) or put in the fridge for a quicker cooling time.
After they are completely cooled, turn out and cut into bars.
Wrap the bars if they are not going to be eaten right away. Enjoy some delicious, healthy granola bars.
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This is just the base recipe, you can add whatever nuts, fruits, wheat germ, flax seeds, or anything that may be good in them.
Heathly Granola Bars
4 cups Old Fashioned Oats
2 cups Chopped Nuts - whichever kind you prefer
1 1/3 cups Sucanat
1 cup Honey
1/2 cup Butter
4 tsp. Vanilla (you may add different flavorings, Almond, maple etc.)
1 tsp Kosher Salt (Regular may work just as well, may cut back a tad bit)
1/2 cup Craisins, or whichever fruit you prefer.
Preheat oven to 350* Mix the nuts and oatmeal together and spread onto a cookie sheet.
Toast in the oven until a golden brown.
Meanwhile, get your 9x9x13 pan ready by lining it with wax paper or foil. Lightly spray the wax paper with cooking spray.
Keep checking on the oatmeal mixure to make sure it doesn't get to toasted. ( I like to forget this alot and have to start over). After it is toasted, dump carefully into a large bowl and set aside.
In a saucepan combine Sucanat, honey, butter, vanilla, and kosher salt. Bring barely to a boil and then remove from heat.
Pour over the oatmeal mixure and add your fruit. Stir
well to make sure you coat everything evenly.
Pour the entire mixture into your prepare pan, cover
with more wax paper or foil and press firmly over the
entire pan to make sure your bars don't crumble
apart when they are cool.
Set aside and let completely cool (2-3 hours) or put in the fridge for a quicker cooling time.
After they are completely cooled, turn out and cut into bars.
Wrap the bars if they are not going to be eaten right away. Enjoy some delicious, healthy granola bars.
