| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 50 min |
| Prep: | 15 min |
| Inactive: | 10 min |
| Cook: | 25 min |
| Yield: | about 10 bars |
Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 2 cups oats
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup whole raw almonds, skin on
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup flax seed meal
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 10 servings |
| Calories | 279 |
| Total Fat | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Carbohydrates | 40 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 6 g |
| Sugar | 16 g |
| Protein | 7 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 4 mg |
Reviews
Best granola I’ve ever eaten. Boil the honey gently and reduce the cooking time slightly. Double the cinnamon. I added raisons along with the cranberries. Added a half cup of brown sugar to the dry ingredients after toasting because the first batch was not as sweet as I wanted. Pressed into a pan gently and was able to cut the granola with a pizza cutter quite easily. Mine comes out chewy rather than hard but I also make enough to be at least an inch thick in the pan before baking. For those who got a poor finished product I didn’t find anything wrong with my first batch following the given directions. I think the cooking of the honey is where it’s easy to go wrong.
I loved these bars! This is my go-to recipe for granola bars now. My daughter loves these for breakfast. I don’t cook the honey for as long at the recipe states…I just boil for 5 minutes. Then I remove the honey from heat and add a heaping spoon of peanut butter (about 1/4 cup. I stir it until it’s completely smooth before adding it to the oatmeal. I also only bake the oatmeal for 10 minutes.
I went and made these bars as soon as the show was over. I found them easy to make except I wasn’t sure when the honey part was done. However, I cooked it about 13 minutes, added it to the dry ingredients and baked it for 10 min. I did remember to press down so the bars came out delicious. They were a little hard to cut but I was able to shape them into bars and put them in bags for my husband’s lunch. I love these and will make them again because they have such great ingredients in them. As good as a Kind Bar.
We tried this recipe and found we had to make a few adjustments to the cooking time. We decreased the time to brown the oat mixture to 10 minutes, decreased honey mixture to 4 minutes and added an additional 1/4 cup of honey, and decreased final baking time to seven minutes. They are wonderful. This is our favorite new snack. We thought a final addition might be to add chocolate to the bottom.
Dry and overcooked, this recipe was not good.
Great recipe. I will make my own from now on so I know what is in them! Modifications to the recipe I made, 1 tsp cinn, 1/2c coconut, dried cherries instead of cranberries – added when mixing the dry ingrediants and cooked honey mixture before the final 10 min bake. If you want bars, press into pan indicated firmly; if you want loose granola, spread onto a larger cookie sheet for the 10 min final bake.
For those who say the granola bars were hard, the honey mixture was probably heated too hot – candy making (i.e. heating the sugar mixture is a science not an art and should be gauged by temperature not color – at least until you have an experienced eye for it. If you look on a candy thermometer, 302 (degrees = hard crack, 285 = soft crack, 260 = hard ball, 248 = firm ball, 240 = soft ball. I made two batches, one at approx 240 and one at approx 248. As expected, the hotter batch was crunchier. Use a candy thermometer and do not heat past 248 is my recommendation.
yum, I was licking the spoon as I loaded the pan in the oven. Did not have the right size pan so just used a 9×11 with parchment paper. I also want to use this as granola for my yogurt so didn’t press them before placing in the oven. If you don’t press, it will fall apart. My honey mixture smelled funky too but used it anyway. I only cooked the honey for about 10 minutes. Thank you for sharing your recipe!!
I made some other granola bars and they came out great!!! Now I tried these with alittle different twist and the baking and toasting makes a BIG difference. They are alittle hard to cut but, I put in fridge to make sure they are really cool and I cut with just the point of the knife and have np then. TY Sunny:
I really liked this recipe and it’s healthy enough that I don’t feel guilty eating it. I will say that I didn’t wait the full 12 to 15 minutes on the honey mixture because it turned copper for me closer to the 9 minute mark so I took it off the heat then. I think it’s most important to look for the right color and to keep an eye on it but mine turned out fine and tastes very good.
Yuk, do not like these at all. It might be from the flax seed meal, not sure, but they are ‘off’ tasting. I even doubled the cinnamon and they still tasted strange with didn’t have enough cinnamon flavor. Won’t make them again.