This marinade is easy to make and always turns out great. Among my top salmon recipes. Baby sweet corn and sesame noodles go well together.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 20 |
| Yield: | 20 granola bars |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup almond flour
- ¾ cup chopped dried mixed fruit
- ½ cup crispy rice cereal
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- ½ cup chocolate chips (Optional)
- ¼ cup flax seeds
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules, or more to taste (Optional)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ cup applesauce
- ½ cup honey
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9×13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
- Mix oats, almond flour, dried fruit, rice cereal, brown sugar, pecans, chocolate chips, flax seeds, instant coffee granules, and cinnamon in a large bowl.
- Whisk applesauce, honey, egg, and vanilla extract in a small bowl; pour into oat mixture. Stir until evenly incorporated. Press batter into prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool completely before cutting into granola bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 138 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 24 g |
| Cholesterol | 9 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 13 mg |
| Sugars | 14 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Almond flour made a big difference on second time. ,
Baked 20 mins. Really moist but sknny and tout-sweet. Used: dark choc chips (intense!), dates & walnuts (delish) and raisins(meh). Added a 1/2 c coconut and subbed a heaping Tbs pb for half the honey (great, great ideas). NextTime: Double the crispy rice. Use 9X11 pan & press mix firmly into it. Reduce b.sugar by half. Forget the raisins and replace with yummier dates. Use semi-sweet chips vs dark. Or try dried cherries, pecans & ss chips (plus pb substitution and coconut addition). do not increase chips! Bake 20 mins?
I added peanut butter – but this is an AWESOME recipe!!! thanks for the upload!!
Not sure what I did wrong but these did not hold together very well. I did find them loose as I poured into the pan and pressed down even harder but it didn’t help. We also found them a little sweet and I believe you could likely cut the brown sugar in half. Perhaps more almond flour could have saved this recipe for me. All that said, they are full of “good stuff” and I did enjoy trying them.
My teenagers and I really liked this gluten free bar. Its no-fail for whatever modifications. I added extra milk chocolate chips, extra instant coffee and a little coconut. I drizzled them with small drizzle of glaze (1 tbsp melted butter, 4 tbsp confectioners sugar and a tbsp of chambourd (Jack Daniels works too) heated in a pan til the alcohol burned off.) It won’t taste “too healthy” with my jack daniel’s glaze. lol
My wife and i like thes bars,but my boys gave it a one,because it taste too healthy.Im still playing with this recipe,so i can get a happy-medium in the family.
I added a heaping tablespoon of peanut butter. The recipe had a great taste and the texture was right for a granola bar. My whole family liked these a lot. Thanks for the recipe! These will be a staple in my house of hungry teenage boys!
awesome!!!
Thanks for sharing So-Cal Girl! These fit the ticket! Great, well rounded bar. I made these just as you wrote except for almond flour(didn’t have any, substituted WW) and they were delicious and filling! I might use this as a base and try adding peanut butter.
Super yummy. I stuck with the recipe. I couldn’t resist having a bite when these were right out of the oven! I’m a graduate student, so I needed something for marathon library days. I used semi-sweet chocolate morsels. I don’t keep instant coffee, but I do have Kona beans and a flavored bean that I like. I mixed them up keeping the Kona grounds as the base so the flavored grounds didn’t have too much punch. For the dried mixed fruit, I got an anti-oxidant blend. The flavors all work really well together. I was worried that the honey and brown sugar would be too sweet, but with unsweetened apple sauce it is perfect.