Granola

The other day I decided I should make granola bars so that I would eat breakfast in the morning.
When I wake up I am so not in the mood to eat anything, which means I usually end up starving by the time I get off work.  This is a bad cycle which I am trying to stop.  I figure granola bars are super convenient and easy to eat, so it would be a perfect breakfast for me.  Yet, when I tried the store bought ones, I find them way to sweet to be eaten in the morning right after brushing my teeth.  So I endeavored to make my own. 

I looked through food blogs and found various recipes and combination's.  I decided to make my own recipe because I did not have all the ingredients needed to follow one of the ones already posted.  After looking and studying each recipe I came up with my own.  So this was definitely an experiment.


And this experiment yielded granola not granola bars.  It is not too sweet, with a great amount of crunch. And the baking cooked the oats enough so that they are not tough.

I used two different recipes to guide my experiment, which can be found here and here.

The Recipe:

2 cups oats

½ cup pecans

½ cup walnuts

1 cup cherry crasins

1 scoop protein powder

4 tbs butter

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup peanut butter

Some honey

Mix dry ingredients together.  Melt butters, sugar, and honey in saucepan.  Bring the ingredients in the saucepan to a boil, but don’t let the liquid burn.  Combine all ingredients and mix well. 

Bake at 300 degrees for 30-35 min.

I baked these in a deep dish which may have made them more prone to crumble.  Next time I make them I will put more liquid into the bars (like eggs, oil, more butter), so that hopefully they will hold them together better.  I will also use no such a deep pan, maybe if they are thinner they will hold more too. 

This calls for another experiment.  But only once I finish my current granola.


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