Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning My Favorite Granola Bars

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My Favorite Granola Bars. save recipe go to recipe. Why spend tons of money on packaged granola bars when you can make them on your own? Whether you use dried cherries, chocolate chips or other dried fruit in them, these granola bars are delicious and a ton of fun to prepare! A super easy recipe that you can customize with your favorite add-ins.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have my favorite granola bars using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Favorite Granola Bars:

1. Make ready quick oats
2. Prepare crisp rice cereal
3. Get ground flaxseed
4. Get unsalted butter
5. Take honey
6. Make ready brown sugar
7. Take salt
8. Make ready pepitas (also known as pumpkin seeds)
9. Take almonds, roughly chopped (could also used sliced)
10. Make ready craisins (or raisins or other dried fruit)
11. Take shredded coconut (could also use coconut chips or a mix)

Enter granola: Brimming with oats, nuts, and other bits of goodness, it's a great weekend (or even weeknight!) project that I started making all of our granola/bars for a variety of reasons, including the fact that my husband is allergic. These homemade granola bars are quick, tasty, and perfect for the whole family. They're lightly toasted with some almond butter & a drizzle of honey. These HOMEMADE GRANOLA BARS are a total hit with my kids and I love that I know exactly what goes into them.

Instructions to make My Favorite Granola Bars:

1. Optional first step : lay out the oats on a baking tray and bake at 350°F for 10 or so minutes, until everything is toasted and golden. Keep a close eye on them though, as the oats can burn quickly. Toasting the oats beforehand just adds a nice flavor to the finished bars, but this step isn't necessary.
2. Line a 8x8"or a 9x9" pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on the sides to easily lift the finished bars out and set aside.
3. Toss the oats, rice cereal and ground flaxseed together in a large bowl. Set aside.
4. In a medium saucepan, start heating your butter over medium heat. Once it begins to melt, whisk in the brown sugar, honey and pinch of salt. This will form a kind of sticky caramel sauce, which will be the glue that holds the bars together. Let this come to simmer, then remove from heat.
5. Pour the sauce over the ingredients in the bowl and use a rubber spatula to mix it all in. Make sure everything is fully saturated. Then fold in the rest of the ingredients. If using chocolate chips as one of your ingredients, barely fold them in after everything else is fully mixed, that way they won't melt from the initial heat of the sauce.
6. Pour this mix into the prepared baking pan and use either a spatula or another pan or your hands to press down on the granola mixture very firmly. Whatever you're using to press down the granola, spray it first with non-stick cooking spray. Its important to really pack it down hard or you'll end up with crumbly granola chunks instead of bars.
7. Place the pan into the fridge for at least 2 hours. Then, remove the granola from the pan using the parchment paper. Use a large, sharp knife to cut it into bars (or squares).
8. That's it! For grab and go convenience, you can individually wrap these using parchment paper and string or you can wrap them in plastic wrap. Store them for up to 1 week. They're a bit hard and crunchy straight out of the fridge, so I'd recommend letting them sit out at room temperature for a few minutes before eating.

They're lightly toasted with some almond butter & a drizzle of honey. These HOMEMADE GRANOLA BARS are a total hit with my kids and I love that I know exactly what goes into them. They're easy to whip up and they always disappear quick. For longer storage, wrap granola bars individually with plastic wrap or in baggies and then place in a freezer proof zip top bag. After trying several recipes, my latest was a huge success.

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