Granola Bars

If you’re looking for a recipe that makes a dense, chewy granola bar and doesn’t call for peanut butter or eggs, this one is perfect! Loaded with walnuts, pumpkin seeds, chocolate and cranberries, these bars are held together by a paste made of apricots, butter and honey. The recipe, Chewy Walnut Granola Bars, is originally [...]
Published on May 22, 2013

My grocery store recently moved the unprocessed wheat bran from the bulk section to the cereal aisle. The downside is it’s now in a box, so it costs a little more. The upside is that the box, which happens to be Hodgson Mill brand, has a bunch of good recipes on the back. This is [...]
Published on January 6, 2013

I used to think granola bars should be made with raw oats, nuts, seeds and sugar and that making them with prepared granola was just redundant. However, now that I’ve become fanatical about making homemade granola and have loads and load of it in the freezer, I’ll use it any way I can. The latest [...]
Published on June 26, 2012

Next time you have half a can of condensed milk to use up, consider this recipe. I tried it yesterday, and while the granola bars were not my personal favorite, they weren’t awful. They taste better today, plus close to 462 people thought they were really swell. It’s probably just me, but I thought the [...]
Published on August 3, 2011
If I don’t accomplish anything else today, at least I can go to bed knowing I used up the rest of yesterday’s condensed milk. Today’s cookie was a granola bar. Eagle brand has a recipe on their site, but I didn’t want to use peanuts and I wanted a much smaller batch, so …
Published on August 9, 2006

Perusing the aisles of Target and looking at the endless varieties of granola bars inspired me to try making them at home. Using my trusty King Arthur Cookie Companion, I made these. This is a slightly scaled down version of theirs. King Arthur uses a 15×18 inch pan, but these are made in an 8 [...]
Published on July 30, 2006