If you like granola bars of any kind you will love these homemade granola bars. They are just sweet, salty, crunchy, and gooey enough. They are full of everything you crave! My kiddos love to help make these. Imagine a healthy alternative to store bought granola bars. You know every ingredient that is put is into these bars with no preservatives added.
We love to make at least one batch a week for breakfast, or dessert. My hubby sneaks these into his lunch bag as well. My favorite is when they just come out of the oven and are really soft, warm, and gooey. Yum is all I can say! Have fun and enjoy making these. I am sure they will soon be a favorite of yours.
Ingredients:
2 cups old fashion rolled oats
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup brown sugar ( we use light )
1/4 cup chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or (use 1/2 cup of each and add both to the mix)
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1/4 sunflower seeds
( you may also add flax seeds or any other ingredients you would like in your granola bars: raisins, dried cranberries and more.)
1/2 cup honey
1 egg
1/2 cup of lite virgin olive oil, or your oil of choice.
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
What make these granola bars fun is that you can customize what you would like to add or leave out. If you don’t like walnuts or chocolate chips, you can leave those out of the recipe and these are still super yummy.
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Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350, then spray your pan with cooking spray. (I love to use my pampered chef brownie pan for these.)
Mix all the dry ingredients together well.
Add oil to the measuring cup first and add to the mix.
Then add the honey to the same cup that the oil was in and add to the mix. I do it in this order because the honey will just slide out of the measuring cup because of the oil. This is much easier than trying to scoop the honey out of the cup.
Next beat your egg and add to the mix.
Add the vanilla extract and mix everything together really well.
Spread in the pan and pack it down a bit.
Bake for about 35 minutes.
You can cut these into bars or crumble for toppings. Have fun making these, and enjoy!
- 2 cups old fashion rolled oats
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup brown sugar ( we use light )
- ¼ cup chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or (use ½ cup of each and add both to the mix)
- ¼ cup walnuts
- ¼ cup sliced almonds
- ¼ sunflower seeds
- ( you may also add flax seeds or any other ingredients you would like in your granola bars: raisins, dried cranberries and more.)
- ½ cup honey
- 1 egg
- ½ cup of lite virgin olive oil, or your oil of choice.
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- What make these granola bars fun is that you can customize what you would like to add or leave out. If you don't like walnuts or chocolate chips, you can leave those out of the recipe and these are still super yummy.
- Preheat your oven to 350, then spray your pan with cooking spray. (I love to use my pampered chef brownie pan for these.)
- Mix all the dry ingredients together well.
- Add oil to the measuring cup first and add to the mix.
- Then add the honey to the same cup that the oil was in and add to the mix. I do it in this order because the honey will just slide out of the measuring cup because of the oil. This is much easier than trying to scoop the honey out of the cup.
- Next beat your egg and add to the mix.
- Add the vanilla extract and mix everything together really well.
- Spread in the pan and pack it down a bit.
- Bake for about 35 minutes.
I have to tell you my funny story. I read your post when you posted it, printed out the recipe and filed it to try sometime. I just recently came across the recipe and was so excited to give it a try, now that I had the ingredients and time. After a couple tries I found what works best for our familY AND everyone is LOVING these!!! They love them so much that I was asked for the recipe twice just this weekend BY EXTENDED FAMILY. When I went to scan the recipe to send to them, I looked down and saw that it waS FROM YOU. i HAD TO CHUCKLE AND MAKE SURE i CAME HERE TO TELL YOU THAT i DID FINALLY TRY THEM AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH LOVED. Thanks so much for a great RECIPE. 🙂
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These treats looks amazing! And you have such cute helpers? Thanks for sharing!
My kiddos are going to love these! They love granola and I’m glad you shared this homemade recipe. I’d much rather serve them these than the prepackaged ones. Not to mention that they will love making them. Thanks for sharing!
Look great I like to roast the oats first too my child and 94 year old gramma love the granola
We could eat a whole pan in minutes. LOL! Roasting the oats sounds so yummy! Thank you for stopping by.
P.S. My Chicken Tortilla Soup recipe is really yummy too!
These look great! Def adding these to my list to make! Found so many great ideas today! 🙂
They are delicious! So glad you stopped by and found some things you liked.
These look so yummy I think I’ll try these
They are so yummy! Let me know how you like them Lauren.
These look even better than the ones I make, I may have to give this a try! Love the pics with the kids helping out too 🙂
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Let me know how you like them Laura. 🙂
I pinned it already these delicious granola bars! I love granola:)
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Thank you for pinning Ilona. 🙂
Oh wow! This recipe looks great! I always wanted to make homemade granola bars but I worry I’m going to mess it up. I’m pinning this one to give it a try.
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There is no way you can mess these up, they are super easy! Enjoy Joyce. 🙂
These look healthy and soon as the holidays are over I am going to start eating like this!!!
Me too! Good luck.
This looks great, I can’t wait to try it with my kids. Granola bars are a popular snack at my house.
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My kids love them! Thank you for stopping by Steph. 🙂