Healthy Whole Grain Granola Bars

Submitted by AriMad

"These bars are delicious, filling and super healthy. *For this recipe I used Kashi 7 whole grains puff cereal and Quaker old fashioned oats."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 24 bars
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 2 bananas
• 118.29 ml light brown sugar
• 236.59 ml Splenda granular
• 2 eggs
• 4.92 ml vanilla
• 354.88 ml whole wheat flour
• 4.92 ml baking soda
• 4.92 ml cinnamon
• 2.46 ml salt
• 354.88 ml old fashioned oats
• 473.18 ml Puffed Kashi
• 118.29 ml raisins
• 118.29 ml dried cranberries

directions

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Beat together bananas, brown sugar and splenda until creamy.
3. Add eggs and vanilla, beat until incorporated.
4. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and add to wet mixture.
5. Stir in oats, puff cereal, raisins and cranberries and mix well.
6. Spread evenly in a 13x9 inches baking pan lined with tin foil.
7. Bake for 27-30 minutes until light golden brown.
8. Remove from oven, let cool 1 minute and using tin foil as handles gently lift bars out of the cake pan. Pull away sides of tin foil and let cool completely at room temperature.
9. Once cool, cut into 24 servings.

Reviews

[missmanda]

These bars are very good! I lacked some ingredients, so I substituted Bob MIll's 5 grain cereal for the old fashioned oats, and used dried apricots instead of the raisins. Also, I thought they might be a little too sweet for us, so I used only 3/4 cup splenda and substituted 1/4 cup honey for the brown sugar. I like bigger bars, so mine made 18. They make a wonderful breakfast with a glass of milk or a cup of coffee :) Thanks for a wonderful and healthy recipe!