Week 34
This week's host was Emily she choose Crunchy Granola Bars. Recipe on page 226 of our book.
Thank-You Emily for picking a quick and easy recipe this week. It's 11:00 pm on Wednesday night and here I am trying to get my post written. I just finished making the granola bars two hours ago. We went camping this weekend and came home on Monday. Tuesday felt like Monday and the next day was Wednesday which left me little time to bake. I'll have you know that I did some yummy baking for our camping trip which included some Monkey Bread we warmed up over the fire, on a stick, one morning. It was SO GOOD! Needless to say, I was determined to get the granola bars done. I have always wanted to make homemade granola bars. I love a good granola bar for a snack.
Here they are looking as golden as can be!
The recipe was pretty simple and gave a variety of options for nuts to include in your bar. I choose what was in my pantry. Sliced almonds and crushed pecans, There was also a variation which added coconut and sesame seeds. I didn't have sesame seeds but there was no way I was leaving out coconut. If coconut can be added to my baking I am all over it.
Chocolate!? This ingredient wasn't included in the recipe. I was a little puzzled why you would have a granola bar without a little chocolate. Tried to resist putting them in but as you can see my resistance didn't hold out long enough. One cup of chocolate chips added to my granola bars.
They did melt a little while I stirred them in because the liquid mixture was warm but that didn't bother me.
Right out of the oven at 10:00 pm tonight. They look great but I was to tired to wait for them to cool, cut them up, and taste. So, I will have to rate them tomorrow. I can't imagine them not being a success. Thanks Emily for picking a recipe I could manage to finish on time, just barely. :)
To get the recipe for these tasty looking granola bars click HERE.
A Tip & Question:
- Great snack for kids! You can pretty much put whatever you want into a granola bar as long as the base and liquid mixture stays the same.
- How do they get the chocolate chips into granola bars, from the store, without them melting?
I hope you like them! I did the same thing with the chocolate. Emily had a good point about the chocolate chips that I want to try next time. She talked (after mixing everything together) letting it cool before adding the chocolate chips. I am not sure if they would stay together, but I am gonna give it a shot! :) Oh and way to go getting it done in time!
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