No Sugar Added Homemade Granola Bars
An easy way to make a homemade granola bar that is low in sugar and is all natural as well.
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- Old fashion rolled oats- 2 cups
- Nuts- 1 ½ cups total. You can use for example any or a combination of the following: peanuts, sunflower seeds,or almonds.
- Wheat germ can use flax seed instead ½ cup
- Honey- ½ cup can use one of the alternatives stated above
- Brown sugar alternative such as coconut palm sugar, ¼ cup
- Butter or alternative such as coconut oil- 3 tablespoons plus additional for pan.
- Vanilla extract- 2 teaspoons
- Salt ¼ tsp- can omit if using salted nuts
- Dried fruit- such as raisins or dried berries- ⅔ cup
Instructions
- How to make these granola bars.
- Pre-treat a jelly roll pan or glass baking dish for nonstick using butter. Preheat your oven to 300.
- Place your nuts, oats, and wheat germ on a separate sheet pan in the oven to toast for 10-12 minutes, be sure to stir as needed keeping the ingredients flat on the pan.
- While toasting your items in the oven, over medium heat in a medium saucepan, melt your butter, Add your honey, brown sugar,vanilla, and salt and continue to cook,stirring as you go, until all of the items have blended together. Remove from stove.
- Remove the nuts and other items from the oven,if you have not already done so, and stir this mixture into your items that were on the stove.
- Stir in your dried fruit.
- Press the mixture into your pre-treated pan from the first step, spreading the mixture evenly.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes and remove before it turns brown.
- Remove from oven, allow to cool and then cut into bars.
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May 11, 2016*About Sugar Alternatives
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