Healthy homemade granola bars. This recipe is easily customizable. You can substitute the dried fruit, pecans, and chocolate morsels out for what you like.
Ingredients
- quick-cooking oats: 2 cups
- cranberries: 1 cup (dried)
- pecan halves: 1 cup
- ground flax seed: 0.5 cup
- milk chocolate chips: 0.5 cup
- wheat germ: 0.25 cup
- packed light brown sugar: 1 cup
- honey: 0.5 cup
- vegetable oil: 2 Tbsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- ground cinnamon: 0.5 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line an 8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper or waxed paper.
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Mix oats, cranberries, pecans, ground flax seed, chocolate chips, and wheat germ together in a bowl.
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Stir brown sugar, honey, vegetable oil, and salt together in a large microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave for 30 seconds. Stir mixture and heat in microwave again until smooth, about 30 seconds more. Stir vanilla extract and cinnamon into brown sugar mixture.
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Stir brown sugar mixture into oats mixture until evenly mixed and chocolate is melted; pour into the prepared baking dish.
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Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 30 minutes. Lift bars out of pan by pulling by the parchment paper; cool for 5 minutes before cutting into bars.
