Cocoa-Coconut Granola Bars
Description
Why buy granola bars when you can use this recipe to get crisp, chewy, and chocolate-y granola bars straight from your own oven?
Ingredients
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2 cups rolled oats
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1/2 cup flax seed meal
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1/2 cup sliced almonds
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1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
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1/4 cup chia seeds
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1/2 cup honey
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1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
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2 tablespoons coconut oil
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1 teaspoon coconut extract
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1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
2
Spread rolled oats, flax seed meal, sliced almonds, shredded coconut, and chia seeds onto a baking sheet.
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Toast oats mixture in preheated oven, stirring every 5 minutes, until lightly toasted, about 15 minutes.
4
Reduce oven heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
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Combine honey, brown sugar, coconut oil, vanilla extract, coconut extract, ground cinnamon, and salt together in a saucepan over medium-low heat; cook and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved, about 3 minutes. Stir cocoa powder into the honey mixture until dissolved.
6
Mix toasted oat mixture and the honey mixture in a large bowl and stir until the dry ingredients are coated; spread into the prepared baking dish and press into an even layer.
7
Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes.
8
Cool bars in pan for 10 minutes, immediately cut into squares, and remove from pan.