I made the yummiest granola bars today. I found the recipe in my Today's Parent Magazine and was really impressed with them. The recipe claims that they are healthier than store bought ones but they are pretty full of sugar, maple syrup and even a little corn syrup. The hubby suggested that the "healthier" part might be a lack of preservatives. Whatever it is: these things are seriously yummy and when you have a little Diva to fatten up - whole, from scratch filling foods are awesome. The only changes I made was that I used almond flour instead of oat flour and instead of using cranberries I used a mix of blue berries, cherries and cranberries.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/3 cup oat flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup flax meal, seeds or wheatgerm
1/2 cup dried chopped apricots
1/2 cup dried cranberries chopped
1/3 cup finely chopped pecans
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup canola oil
2 tbsp corn syrup
preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry ingredients together. Mix liquid ingredients together. Combine together and mix well. Grease a 20x20xm (2l) cake pan and line with parchment paper - allow this to stick over top. Press mixture into the pan and press down well. Bake in the oven for 30 - 35 minutes. Remove from heat and leave in pan for 30minutes. Using the parchment paper pull the bars out of the cake pan and allow to cool like this for a further 30minutes on a cooling rack. Slice into desires size. I sliced mine longways and then simply broke them into chunks rather than leaving them "bar sized".
Hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
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