Chewy Granola Bars
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup whole wheat flour
¼ cup brown sugar
¾ cup chocolate chips (or dried fruit, mini m&ms, cashews, you get the idea.. :)
½ c. coconut (or anything else you might like!)
½ cup crispy rice cereal or nuts
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
½ cup canola oil
½ cup honey
2 tsp vanilla extract
(Here's how I like to do it each time:)
Grease large cookie sheet/jelly roll pan and preheat the oven to 350.
4 c. rolled oats
2 c. whole wheat flour
1 c. coconut (I buy the unsweetened "flakes" at stores that sell them in bulk)
1 c. crispy rice cereal
3/4 c. ground flax seed (measure after it is ground - I currently buy a bag of ground flax seed from Costco)
3/4 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips or mini m&ms
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 t. salt
1 t. cinnamon
1 c. canola oil
1 c. honey
4 t. vanilla extract
Mixing directions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Grease a 9×13 pan.
In a large bowl, stir together oats, flour, brown sugar, chocolate chips, coconut, crispy rice/nuts, salt and cinnamon.
In a liquid measuring cup or bowl, thoroughly blend oil, honey, and vanilla; pour into oat mixture, and mix with spoon until the mixture is evenly coated.
Press evenly into the prepared baking pan.
Bake 25-30 minutes in the oven (it will still be very soft coming out of the oven).
Cool completely in pan before turning out onto a cutting board and cutting into bars.
*If you turn it out while it’s warm, the mixture will fall apart, and you’ll get granola, or very misshapen bars.
The credit for this recipe goes to my friend - you can check out her blog and granola bar recipe here
http://www.ourfoodstorage.com/2010/02/23/chewy-granola-bars/
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