These homemade Granola Bars are crunchy on the outside,soft on the inside and loaded with sweet bits of chocolate and delicious fruity flavor.
The other day during nap time I found myself without any freelance work so I watched a few minutes of “The Barefoot Contessa” I’ll admit love Ina! She is just so cheery and full of great recipe ideas, for Valentine’s this year I even made her Lobster Potpie. I always get excited when there is an episode I haven’t seen before and in this episode she made her own granola bars. Granola bars are something I have been meaning to try for a couple of years now, but for some reason hadn’t yet. I altered her recipe to fit my taste and boy did they turn out good. These bars are crunchy on the outside – soft on the inside, sweet and filled with delicious fruity flavor. As a snack, breakfast on the go or whenever, I love a good granola bar and I hope you will enjoy them too; happy baking!
Granola Bars
Prep
Cook
Total
Yield 12 bars
Ingredients
- 2 c old fashioned oats
- 1 c shredded coconut
- 1 /2 c dried fruit bits, I used Sunmaid
- 1/4 c flaxmeal
- 2/3 c honey
- 1/4 c brown sugar, packed
- 2 Tbs butter
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350º, line a large baking sheet with parchment and also a 9"x13" baking pan with parchment, hanging over the edges.
- Spread the oats and coconut over the baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl combine the baked oats, coconut, dried fruit and flaxmeal.
- In a sauce pan add the honey, butter, sugar and salt and bring to a boil over medium heat, cook for one minute.
- Pour the honey mixture over the oat mixture and stir to combine, set aside and cool 30-45 minutes. Stir in the chocolate chips and press the mixture into the 9"x13" pan, bake for 25 minutes.
- Cool completely, cut into bars and serve.
Notes
Recipe adapted from Homemade Granola Bars by Ina Garten
Homemade granola bars are so much better than the store bought ones!!! I love that you added flaxmeal to yours!!!
Jocelyn, I love to add flaxmeal to just about everything!
we love making granola bars – your bars look amazing
I want some of those granola bars… YUM!!!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!!
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Thanks for linking to Saturday Dishes.
Linda @ Tumbleweed Contess