{"id":1393,"date":"2012-04-23T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:58:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T11:58:52","slug":"sontes-granola-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Sonte’s Granola Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

When making up your weekly batch of Granola, have another bowl on hand to mix up the ingredients for these Granola Bars so you can have a healthy, nutritious snack at work, at school or at play!<\/p>\n

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Fruit and Nut Filled Granola Bars<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. 4 cup Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
\n2. 3\/4 cup Brown Sugar
\n3. 1\/2 cup Wheat Germ
\n4. 1\/4 cup Ground Flax Seed
\n5. 1\/2 cup Sunflower Seeds
\n6. 1\/2 cup Pumpkin Seeds
\n7. 1\/4 cup Sesame Seeds
\n8. 2 generous teaspoons Cinnamon
\n9. 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
\n10. 1\/2 cup Flour
\n11. 3\/4 cup Raisins (soaked in hot water for 10 minutes, then drained well)
\n12. 1 cup Coconut
\n13. 1 cup chopped Dried Apricots (optional)<\/p>\n

3\/4 cup Honey
\n2 Eggs
\n1\/2 cup Vegetable Oil
\n3\/4 cup Applesauce
\n1 Tablespoon Vanilla<\/p>\n

2 cups whole Blanched Almonds<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 350F (175C)
\nPrepare a 11x15x1\u00a0inch\u00a0(28x38x2.5cm) \u00a0baking tray by spraying lightly with vegetable oil spray.<\/p>\n

Combine first 12 ingredients together in a large bowl.
\nIn small mixing bowl, combine honey, eggs, vegetable oil, applesauce and vanilla.
\nStir liquid ingredients into dry ingredients until well blended.
\nPress into prepared pan.
\nBake in 350F oven for 12 minutes.
\nRemove from oven, sprinkle evenly with whole almonds, gently press the almonds into the granola bars.<\/p>\n

Return to oven and continue baking for 12 to 17 minutes.<\/p><\/div>\n

Score into bars and let cool for 30 minutes.
\nCut into bars and allow to cool completely.<\/p>\n

Store in airtight container.<\/p>\n

NOTE: Luke loves chocolate so when they are finished baking, I sprinkle with 200g Chocolate Chunks, return to turned off oven for 2 minutes, remove from oven and spread melted chocolate to cover the whole pan of granola bars.
\nLooking for a yummy yogurt topping to replace the chocolate….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When making up your weekly batch of Granola, have another bowl on hand to mix up the ingredients for these Granola Bars so you can have a healthy, nutritious snack at work, at school or at play! 1. 4 cup Old Fashioned Rolled Oats 2. 3\/4 cup Brown Sugar 3. 1\/2 cup Wheat Germ 4. … Continue reading Sonte’s Granola Bars<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow-me-through-my-cooking-journey","category-squares-and-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}