Homemade Chewy Granola Bars

Good mornin' all! Once again the Midwest is being hammered by another round of rain, sleet, snow, and wind. So, I am staying home from church...again. Sad panda. But, I can take this time to share with you this terrific recipe for your very own Homemade Chewy Granola Bars. My kidlets LOVE them and I know they are not filled with a bunch of random ingredients like soy lecithin (which sounds like something that could crawl out of ocean). In fact, check out what is actually in your fav name-brand chewy granola bar here. You make be shocked.

Homemade Chewy Granola Bars

Ingredients:

1 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup honey 
1 cup raisins, dried cranberries, chocolate chips, coconut, peanut butter chips or what ever your little heart desires (optional)

Combine oats, flour, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a bowl and mix. Add the vanilla and honey, and mix well. Next, add your add-in and mix well to even distribute.

Press the mix evenly into a greased 8x8 pan. Bake at 325° for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely before cutting. 

What you will need

Our helper coconut oiling our pans.

Combine dry ingredients in a bowl

Mix well. I prefer the hand method.

Add your honey, vanilla, and add-in of choice. We chose raisins and dried cranberries for our batch.

Press evenly into pans. We did a quadruple batch which is why it doesn't match the 8x8 pan in the recipe. The recipe listed above will make one 8x8 pan (about 14 bars depending on how you cut them)

The final product!

Thanks for stopping and God bless!