These took me ages to perfect. No joke. I probably went through 3 jars of peanut butter and several chocolate chips. But, every time I would tweak the recipe, they would just crumble. Then, finally, these turned out perfectly! I was so happy (as were my parent's credit cards ;). Super filling, these bars make the ultimate snack. If, for some reason, you have a problem with peanut butter (ie., allergic, because who in the world could possibly hate peanut butter??), simply sub a nut-ter butter! If you cannot have nuts at all, try golden pea butter. I have made these with golden pea butter, and didn't notice much of a difference. By the way, please, please, please do not try to sub the agave with dry sweetener. They will crumble. I promise, as I found out the hard way! Anyway, moving on to the recipe...
Ingredients
2 cups oats
2 cups cereal (I used 1 cup Kamut puffs & 1 cup Nature's Path Multigrain Flakes)
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp agave (or honey, or pure maple syrup- not the Aunt Jemima kind, please!)
1/2 cup chocolate chips (I used Foley's Unsweetened)
3 tbsp coconut oil
In a larger bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In a separate, smaller bowl, mix the wet ingredients. Pour wet into dry. Lastly, add the chocolate chips. Place into a medium-large sized pan and refrigerate overnight., or until firm. Cut into 16 bars and enjoy!
Question of the day: What's your favourite kind or brand of granola bars?
Mine is either the above recipe, or Kashi's Peanut Peanut Butter bars. Yes, you read that correctly, double peanut! By the way, I recently found out, that apparently peanuts are not nuts. They are considered a legume! Isn't that odd?
Anyways, that's all for today! Hope you enjoy this recipe! Let me know what you thought and be sure to answer today's question, as well!
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