Granola Bars Recipe 465 Food

HOMEMADE GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter an 8 by 12-inch baking dish and line it with parchment paper.
• Toss the oatmeal, almonds, and coconut together on a sheet pan and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned. Transfer the mixture to a large mixing bowl and stir in the wheat germ.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 300 degrees F.
• Place the butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla, and salt in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook and stir for a minute, then pour over the toasted oatmeal mixture. Add the dates, apricots, and cranberries and stir well.
• Pour the mixture into the prepared pan. Wet your fingers and lightly press the mixture evenly into the pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until light golden brown. Cool for at least 2 to 3 hours before cutting into squares. Serve at room temperature.

GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Butter a 9 by 9-inch glass baking dish and set aside. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Spread the oats, sunflower seeds, almonds, and wheat germ onto a half-sheet pan. Place in the oven and toast for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• In the meantime, combine the honey, brown sugar, butter, extract and salt in a medium saucepan and place over medium heat. Cook until the brown sugar has completely dissolved.
• Once the oat mixture is done, remove it from the oven and reduce the heat to 300 degrees F. Immediately add the oat mixture to the liquid mixture, add the dried fruit, and stir to combine. Turn mixture out into the prepared baking dish and press down, evenly distributing the mixture in the dish and place in the oven to bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Cut into squares and store in an airtight container for up to a week.

GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a bowl, toss the oats with the canola oil, melted butter and salt. Spread the mixture out on 2 baking sheets and toast in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, shaking the pan twice and making sure they don't burn. Remove from the oven and set aside. Reduce the heat to 325 degrees F.
• In a medium saucepan, combine the brown sugar, honey, apple juice and molasses. Heat the mixture slowly, stirring until all combined. Stir in the vanilla and remove from the heat.
• Toss together the toasted oats, rice cereal, wheat germ, pecans and almonds. Pour in the sugar mixture, stirring as you pour. Toss to combine; it will be sticky.
• Press into 1 baking sheet (thoroughly greased with butter) and bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool. Cut pieces with a sharp knife and remove from the pan. You can cut them while they're still warm if that's easier.
• Dip the cooled granola bars straight into the melted chocolate so that the top is plain and the bottom is chocolate-covered. Set on parchment until set, sticking in the fridge to hasten this along if necessary.

GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan with 1/3 cup honey and brown sugar, and a pinch of salt. Mix in 2 cups rolled oats, 1 cup each chopped nuts and dried fruit, and 2 tablespoons wheat germ. Press into a parchment-lined 8-inch-square pan and bake 30 minutes at 300 degrees F. Cool, then cut into bars.

GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
• Spread the oats and coconut evenly across a baking sheet.
• Toast oats and coconut in preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes; transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• Mix honey, peanut butter, vanilla extract, and salt in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook and stir until smooth. Pour the honey mixture over the oats and coconut; stir to coat. Spread the mixture evenly into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until beginning to dry, about 15 minutes for crunchy granola bars, less if you like them chewy. Cool completely before cutting.

FANTASTIC GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease BOTTOM ONLY of a 13 x 9-in baking pan.
• In a large bowl, combine the first 5 ingredients.
• Stir well.
• Stir in the remaining ingredients.
• You may add what ever you want, as long as the mixture is sticking together in several large clumps.
• Press the mixture into the baking pan, using your fingers.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 mins, or until golden.
• Cool completely, and cut into bars.

LOLA GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 7- by 11-inch baking pan with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
• In a bowl, stir the oats, sunflower seeds, almonds, coconut, flax seed meal and cinnamon. Transfer to a dry sheet tray and toast in the oven for 15 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
• While dry ingredients toast, in a medium pot, add the honey, coconut oil and vanilla. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until the honey turns a copper color, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Pour the honey into the dry ingredients and mix until well coated with the honey mixture.
• Pour onto the prepared baking pan. Pack down the ingredients. Bake for about 10 minutes; the middle may seem slightly sticky but it will cool nicely. Let cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Flip over, take off the parchment and cut into rectangles. Serve.
• For other flavors, make the following substitutions to the recipe above: Ruby (Cranberry): Omit the almonds and add an additional 1/4 cup dried cranberries. Nathan (Blueberry/Almond): Substitute the cranberries with dried blueberries. Enzo: (Cashew/Almond): Omit the cranberries and add 1/4 cup cashews to the dry ingredients. Ellie (Cashew/Date): Substitute the almonds with cashews and substitute the cranberries with dried dates.

ROCKY ROAD GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Grease a 9-inch square baking pan with cooking spray, line the bottom with parchment paper and set aside.
• Combine the oats, flax seed, digestive biscuits, walnuts and chocolate chips in a large heat-proof bowl.
• Combine the sugar, honey, corn syrup and butter in a small saucepan set over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the butter melts and the mixture starts to boil. Once it has come to a light boil, cook the mixture for 2 minutes to dissolve the sugar.
• Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the vanilla and kosher salt. Add to the oat mixture and stir to combine. Stir in the marshmallows, if using.
• Scrape the mixture into your prepared pan and press firmly into an even layer. Place the pan in the fridge for about 1 hour to firm up.
• Carefully lift the granola bars out of the pan and slice into 12 equal bars. Wrap individually in parchment, wax paper or plastic wrap and place in a tightly sealed container.
• For a chewier bar, store in the fridge. For softer bars, store in the cupboard.

3-INGREDIENT GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Combine peanut butter & honey in saucepan over medium low heat and melt to combine.
• Stir in oats (and other optional ingredients like chocolate chips, dried berries or nuts).
• Press into a pan that is lined with foil and sprayed.
• Refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. Cut block of granola into bars and store in airtight container in fridge for 1 week.

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Combine marshmallows, peanut butter, margarine, corn syrup, and vanilla in a micrvavable bowl.
• Microwave uncovered at 70% power for 30 seconds to 1 minute at a time, stirring often till blended.
• Stir in rest of ingredients.
• Spread in a greased 9x9" pan.
• Bake at 350F for 13-19 minutes or until set.
• Cool and cut into 16 bars; Delicious warm or at room temperature.

HOMEMADE CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 13x9-inch pan.
• In a large bowl combine brown sugar,peanut butter,corn syrup,margarine and vanilla,blend well.
• Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Press evenly into greased pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Cool 1 hour.
• Cut into bars.

GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325° and line a 15x10-inch.
• pan (or 13x9 if you want them thicker) with foil, greased.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine oats, nuts, raisins, sunflower seeds, chips condensd milk& butter, mix well.
• Press into pan evenly.
• Bake 25-30 minute or until golden brown.
• Cool slightly.
• Remove from pan & peel off foil.
• Cut into bars.
• Store loosely covered at room temperature.
• Makes 36 bars depending how you cut them.