Description
Healthy homemade granola bars. This recipe is easily customizable. You can substitute the dried fruit, pecans, and chocolate morsels out for what you like.
Ingredients
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 1 cup pecan halves
- ½ cup ground flax seed
- ½ cup milk chocolate chips
- ¼ cup wheat germ
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup honey
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line an 8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper or waxed paper.
- Mix oats
- cranberries
- pecans
- ground flax seed
- chocolate chips
- and wheat germ together in a bowl.
- Stir brown sugar
- honey
- vegetable oil
- and salt together in a large microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave for 30 seconds. Stir mixture and heat in microwave again until smooth
- about 30 seconds more. Stir vanilla extract and cinnamon into brown sugar mixture.
- Stir brown sugar mixture into oats mixture until evenly mixed and chocolate is melted; pour into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown
- about 30 minutes. Lift bars out of pan by pulling by the parchment paper; cool for 5 minutes before cutting into bars.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 31 mins
Total Time: 46 mins
Servings: 16