Ingredients
- Cooking spray
- 2 cups oats
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup whole raw almonds, skin on
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1/4 cup flax seed meal
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 7- by 11-inch baking pan with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray.
In a bowl, stir the oats, sunflower seeds, almonds, coconut, flax seed meal and cinnamon. Transfer to a dry sheet tray and toast in the oven for 15 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
While dry ingredients toast, in a medium pot, add the honey, coconut oil and vanilla. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until the honey turns a copper color, 12 to 15 minutes.
Pour the honey into the dry ingredients and mix until well coated with the honey mixture.
Pour onto the prepared baking pan. Pack down the ingredients. Bake for about 10 minutes; the middle may seem slightly sticky but it will cool nicely. Let cool in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Flip over, take off the parchment and cut into rectangles. Serve.
For other flavors, make the following substitutions to the recipe above:
Ruby (Cranberry): Omit the almonds and add an additional 1/4 cup dried cranberries.
Nathan (Blueberry/Almond): Substitute the cranberries with dried blueberries.
Enzo: (Cashew/Almond): Omit the cranberries and add 1/4 cup cashews to the dry ingredients.
Ellie (Cashew/Date): Substitute the almonds with cashews and substitute the cranberries with dried dates.
Notes
A viewer or guest of the show, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.
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By harold G
on May 02, 2013
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Best granola I've ever eaten. Boil the honey gently and reduce the cooking time slightly. Double the cinnamon. I added raisons along with the cranberries. Added a half cup of brown sugar to the dry ingredients after toasting because the first batch was not as sweet as I wanted. Pressed into a pan gently and was able to cut the granola with a pizza cutter quite easily. Mine comes out chewy rather than hard but I also make enough to be at least an inch thick in the pan before baking. For those who got a poor finished product I didn't find anything wrong with my first batch following the given directions. I think the cooking of the honey is where it's easy to go wrong.
By AsKitchen25
on April 22, 2013
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I loved these bars! This is my go-to recipe for granola bars now. My daughter loves these for breakfast. I don't cook the honey for as long at the recipe states...I just boil for 5 minutes. Then I remove the honey from heat and add a heaping spoon of peanut butter (about 1/4 cup. I stir it until it's completely smooth before adding it to the oatmeal. I also only bake the oatmeal for 10 minutes.
By glogirlrichards
on April 02, 2013
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I went and made these bars as soon as the show was over. I found them easy to make except I wasn't sure when the honey part was done. However, I cooked it about 13 minutes, added it to the dry ingredients and baked it for 10 min. I did remember to press down so the bars came out delicious. They were a little hard to cut but I was able to shape them into bars and put them in bags for my husband's lunch. I love these and will make them again because they have such great ingredients in them. As good as a Kind Bar.
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