Recipies are like anything else, they are made to be "tweaked" to fit the individual. I have found this to be especially true of my granola bar recipie. I first came across it just looking online for a healthier and less expensive alternative to buying granola bars as snacks for my kids. I found this recipe for Playgroup Granola Bars. It has since become my "base" for the various granola bars that come out of my oven.
This picture is of the bars I made today. They are by far the biggest hit. I was hoping to make a bar that my daughter Noraa would eat. She doesn't like nuts and loves oatmeal, but won't eat it in cookies or bars. So here are the tweaks that I made today...
- 2 cups rolled oats (I put these in the food processor and made them much smaller)
3/4 cup packed brown sugar- 1/2 cup wheat germ (& 1/2 cup of ground flax seed)
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup
all-purposeflour whole wheat - 3/4 cup
raisins(optional) cran-strawberries - 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil (&1/2 cup apple butter)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- chocolate chips
- chocolate drizzle (1/2 cup chips & a 1/2 t. of crisco)
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
- In a large bowl, mix together the oats, brown sugar, wheat germ, cinnamon, flour, raisins and salt. Make a well in the center, and pour in the honey, egg, oil and vanilla. Mix well using your hands. Pat the mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the bars begin to turn golden at the edges. Cool for 5 minutes, then cut into bars while still warm. Do not allow the bars to cool completely before cutting, or they will be too hard to cut.
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