Granola Bars

My family enjoys granola bars. I really want my family to have healthy granola bars. I know it sounds kind of crazy that homemade granola bars could be healthy since the recipes are often found in the cookie section of a cookbook. However, when a granola bar recipe is made from scratch at home, I have more control over the quality of the ingredients as well as gaining the ability to change the recipe to my family's tastes.

Homemade Granola Bars

3 cups granola

3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats

3 cups chopped nuts, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, or shredded coconut

1 ½ cups flour

1 ½ cups raisins, craisins, other dried fruit, or semi-sweet chocolate chips*

3 beaten eggs

1 cup honey, maple syrup, or other syrup/liquid sweetener

1 cup cooking oil

¾ cups packed brown sugar

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Place greased aluminum foil on a bar pan that measures about 15 1/2" x 10”. Mix the first 5 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, honey or syrup, oil, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Press onto aluminum foil lined pan.

Bake in a 325 degree oven for 30-35 minutes or edges are browned. Cool, then use foil to lift granola bars from pan. Cut into bars and enjoy. Store left overs in an air tight container. Makes about 75 bars.

* Since I love chocolate, we usually use a combination of chocolate chips, raisins, and/or craisins to equal 1 ½ cups.

More of my recipes:

Chunky Monkey Brownies
Oatmeal recipes (2 granola and 1 Amish Oatmeal recipe)

More kid friendly recipes here. 

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