Fruit and Nut Granola Bars
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
-
12-16 bars
- Serves:
- 12-16
ingredients
- parchment paper, for lining
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup cereal
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup raw unsalted walnuts
- 1 cup unsalted sunflower seeds
- 1⁄4 cup raisins
- 1 cup cranberries, boiled and mashed
- 2 egg whites
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 350*F. Line a 9x13" baking pan with parchment paper.
- Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl (oats, flour, cereal, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and raisins). By "cereal", I mean the kind of cereal you eat cold with milk (or soy milk, etc.). Any kind will work!
- In a separate bowl, mix egg whites, eggs, and vegetable oil together. Add maple syrup and honey. If you don't have/don't want to use maple syrup and honey (or have another sweetener you want to use), just use 1/4 cup of that sweetener.
- Add bananas and boiled cranberries to the bowl of wet ingredients and mix well.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Stir in brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla extract. Depending on how sweet you want the bars to be, you may want adjust the amount of brown sugar. 1/2 cup of brown sugar does not make the bars particularly sweet because of the boiled cranberries, so you might want to add more if you like very sweet bars.
- Put granola bar mixture into lined 9x13" pan, and press firmly. Pack this very tightly, as this will help them hold together!
- Place pan in the oven and bake for 25-35 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Remove pan from oven and let cool completely (it could take up to an hour).
- Once the pan has cooled, lift the granola bars out of the pan by grabbing the parchment paper. Place it on a cutting board/cutting surface.
- Cut the bars into whatever size you like, and enjoy!
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