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Salty Chocolate Granola

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Ready for an easy recipe that your family will love? Not only that, this makes a great homemade gift to give!

Simple to Throw Together

For this recipe, you’ll add the first 7 ingredients listed in a bowl and combine. Then, mix the oil and maple syrup, and pour that over your dry mixture. Stir it well to combine.

Once your mixture is coated nicely, spread it out on a baking sheet. Bake at 325° F for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. WATCH this granola closely! Because it is chocolate, it makes it more difficult to tell if it’s starting to burn.
Once it’s done, let it cool. Then add your chocolate chips! Easy peasy!

Gift Giving

This is a great recipe to give as a gift. Jar it up on a recycled jar. Add an oxygen absorbed to keep it really fresh, or vacuum seal the lid if you have an attachment.
Add a ribbon around the lid or hot glue fabric to to the lid to dress it up. All you need now is a cute little tag!

Salty Chocolate Granola

Salty Chocolate Granola

Salty, sweet, crunchy, delicious.... Need I go on? Try this granola out for a healthy breakfast option that’s so yummy!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 3 cups of oats
  • 1 cup of chopped nuts
  • 1/4 cup of shredded coconut
  • 1/4 cup of wheat germ or flax meal
  • 3 TBSP brown sugar or sucanat
  • 1.5 teaspoons of sea salt
  • 1/3 cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup of coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup of maple syrup
  • 1/2 cup of chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Combine the first seven ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

2. Melt coconut oil. Add maple syrup and pour over your dry mixture. Stir to coat the dry mixture with the wet mixture evenly.

3. Spread granola out on a lined baking sheet evenly. Bake at 325° F for 30-40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Watch it closely to avoid burning.

4. Let mixture cool and add chocolate chips. Store for a week or two. For longer storage or gift giving, vacuum seal in a jar or add an oxygen absorber.

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Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

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These chocolate chip oatmeal bars are packed full of oatmeal, flavor, and CHOCOLATE! It doesn’t get much better than that!

My kids love a prepackaged granola bar. Let’s face it, they sure are convenient. The only bars I will allow my family to put into their bodies come with a pretty hefty price tag! This recipe has no artificial ingredients or preservatives, yet holds up well for that perfect treat tucked away for a lunch on the go!

ingredients chocolate chip oatmeal bars

Anytime I bake anything that contains melted butter, I use a little kitchen hack to make my life easier. Take your butter butter and place it into the baking dish you plan to use. Pop it into your oven while it preheats. This melts the butter for you, and also greases the baking dish! Win, win!

chocolate chip oatmeal bars in pan

There is a little tip I’d like to share if you’re making these bars for on the go treats throughout the week. Let your bars cool completely once finished baking. Pop them into the refrigerator for about 30 minutes. Then, pull them out and slice them up. The time cooling in the refrigerator makes them the perfect texture for cutting into even sized bars.

Enjoy!

Yield: 15 bars

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

Chocolate chip oatmeal bars don't have to come in a plastic wrapper for your family to love them! These bars are filling, packed with oatmeal, and absolutely delicious! Give them a try!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups of AP flour
  • 2 1/4 cups of rolled oatmeal
  • 2 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups of sucanat (can substitute 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar)
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup of melted butter (coconut oil is a great substitute if you're dairy free)
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup of chocolate chips

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, add the first six ingredients and combine well.

2. Make sure the butter is not warm enough that it will cook the eggs. Add the butter, eggs, and vanilla. Mix to combine. Lastly add the chocolate chips.

3. If you've done my kitchen hack from above your pan should already be greased, so now add the mixture to the prepared pan. Use the bottom of a cup to press the mixture down evenly into the pan.

4. Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes. For bars to take in your lunch or on the go, let the bars cool and them refrigerate 30 minutes. This makes them the perfect texture to cut into nice squares. Enjoy!

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Category: Breakfast

Brown Butter Honey Granola

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This homemade granola recipe is simple and nutritious. It makes a healthy breakfast, snack, and can even be used with dessert!

I think no matter where you are at in life, we can all agree that cereal is a convenient breakfast. For my family however, packaged cereals don’t cut it. I feel more comfortable serving my family food with ingredients I can pronounce! We also avoid artificial flavorings, color, and high fructose corn syrup. This makes granola a pretty obvious option to eat for cereal.

The granola aisle at the grocery store seems to get better with time when it comes to ingredients, but that doesn’t always reflect in price. I don’t know about your family, but for ours,one $6 bag of granola doesn’t seem to make it’s way back to the pantry after being opened; it’s already gone!

This granola recipe is delicious, simple, versatile, and a lot easier on the pocketbook (do people even use that term anymore?). It’s made with old fashioned oats, flax seed meal, coconut, pecans, honey, butter, and sucunat. Substitutions can easily be made in the recipe according to what you have on hand or what is more accessible for you to purchase. Wheat germ would make a great substitution for flax seed meal, a small dried fruit could take the place of coconut, dried cranberries or chopped dried figs, and pretty much any chopped nut can be substituted for the pecans. If you have a nut allergy, you can opt for another dried fruit or maybe chocolate chips!

As for the sweetener, you can guess from the title of the recipe I used honey. The browned butter flavor melds so well with honey. It is absolutely delicious! The honey butter mixture bakes into the oats and gives you the lovely granola clusters we all love! (If you don’t love the clusters, well I don’t know what – but you should!)

Granola isn’t just a spectacular cereal item, it also makes a lovely yogurt topping, and an even more delectable vanilla ice cream topping when warmed.

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