A new favorite.
My cousin posted a link to this recipe on facebook and I'm so glad I saw it.
It was such a fast and easy recipe. So fast. And good. And healthy. Healthier and faster than my other granola bar recipe that we love around here. I think I may have to just wean them off of the original and stick with this one. I am just going with the easy route but I am so tired this pregnancy and so easy it is. But remember...healthy too!
I want to apologize about the lack of another real recipe, but this is just what I'm doing right now so enjoy this recipe. Really. Try it. They turned out delish!
No Bake Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
Here is a link to the website that this recipe came from.
1/4 cup Butter
1/4 cup Honey
1/3 cup packed Brown Sugar (These were really sweet bars, I recommend cutting this in half, or at least down to 1/4 cup)
2 cups Quick Cooking Oats
1 cup Crispy Rice Cereal (For some reason my kids love this cereal so I always have it on hand.)
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoons mini Chocolate Chips
1/4 cup Honey
1/3 cup packed Brown Sugar (These were really sweet bars, I recommend cutting this in half, or at least down to 1/4 cup)
2 cups Quick Cooking Oats
1 cup Crispy Rice Cereal (For some reason my kids love this cereal so I always have it on hand.)
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 tablespoons mini Chocolate Chips
*I followed the recipe ingredients exactly but next time I would cut the sugar and add some more healthy stuff. Maybe some nuts, or dried fruit or hemp hearts
In a large bowl, stir oats and rice cereal together. Set aside.
In a small pot, melt butter, honey and brown sugar together over medium high heat until it comes to a bubble. Reduce the heat and cook 2 minutes. (I think that you should cook a minute longer. I know that there is a risk in it burning but I think they will hold together better. Mine didn't turn out crumbly but I think they may stick better with this trick).
Pour in vanilla and stir. Pour over dry ingredients and mix well to moisten all ingredients.
Pour into lightly greased small jelly roll pan (about 12x8x1) and press out to be about 3/4 inch in thickness.
(If your pan is larger than this just use one end to get it to the thickness that is stated above.)
Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips and press down lightly (I sprayed my hands with 'Pam' to keep the ingredients from sticking all over me). Cool on a counter top to room temperature for two hours or until the chocolate chips are set before cutting into bars.
I used snack sized zip-top bags for my bars and they fit perfect.
Here is a note from the recipe I followed:
If your granola bars don’t seem to be staying together when you cut them, you may have made them too thin or you didn’t pack them in tight enough. Stick them in the fridge for 20 minutes and that should help keep them together. {Be sure not to keep them in there too long or else they’ll become super hard!} The next time you make them, try reducing the butter to 3 tablespoons and really packing them down.
