Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chewy granola bars. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
They tasted great, but fell apart. After two years, we've picked up where we left off and have now figured out how to make these simple, soft and chewy granola bars. You can make them your own by picking different ingredients to add in!
Chewy Granola Bars is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chewy Granola Bars is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chewy granola bars using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chewy Granola Bars:
- Prepare 2 1/2 C old fashioned rolled oats
- Get 1/2 C natural almonds, coarsely chopped
- Take 1/3 C orange blossom honey
- Prepare 1/4 C unsalted butter
- Take 1/4 C dark brown sugar
- Prepare 1 Tbs Chia seeds
- Make ready 1/4 Teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1/4 C dried cranberries, coarsely chopped
- Take 1/4 c dried golden raisins, coarsely chopped
- Take 1 Tbs flaxseed
- Prepare 1/2 Teaspoon Vanila
- Take 1/4 C plus 2 teaspoon mini chocolate chips
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Steps to make Chewy Granola Bars:
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line bottom and sides of a 8-inch or 9-inch square pan with aluminum foil. Then lightly oil or spray with cooking spray.
- Add oats and almonds to a small baking sheet then bake 5 minutes, stir and bake another 3 to 5 minutes until lightly toasted. Transfer to a large bowl.
- Combine butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla extract and the salt in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally until butter melts and the sugar completely dissolves.
- Pour butter mixture in to bowl with toasted oats and almonds. Mix well. Let cool about 5 minutes then add cranberries and a 1/4 cup of the mini chocolate chips.
- Stir to combine. (The chocolate chips will most likely melt a little. This is fine, they turn into glue and help to hold the bars together).
- Transfer oat mixture to lined pan then use a rubber spatula or damp finger tips to firmly press the mixture into the pan.
- (Press hard here, this way the bars will stay together once cooled and cut — We press for about one minute to be extra safe).
- Scatter remaining 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips over pressed granola mixture then use a rubber spatula to gently press them into the top. Cover then refrigerate at least 2 hours.
- Remove block of granola mixture from pan then peel away aluminum foil. Cut into 12 bars.
- Store bars in an airtight container for up to one week. For the softest bars, keep at room temperature. For slightly harder bars, store in the fridge.
These homemade granola bars have slightly better nutrition facts than store-bought Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, but-more importantly-they have a MUCH shorter and cleaner ingredient list! The store shelves are FULL of so many different kinds. Then the barrage of chewy granola bars hit the shelves which seemed to up the sugar content - some are so close to a candy. Chewy granola bars make a great breakfast for on the go or a delicious pre or post-workout snack. And they are especially perfect during back-to-school season when you're packing lunchboxes for.
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