Kitchen Sink Granola Bars

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In case you were wondering why I dubbed these kitchen sink granola bars 🙂 It’s pretty much everything but.

Here’s all the dry stuff together: oats, sucanat, dried blueberries, raisins, spelt flour, flax seed, almond meal and salt. And all the wet stuff is together (slightly warmed in the microwave so the honey would whisk in nicely) olive oil, vanilla extract, honey and egg.

After I get it all mixed and put it on my Pampered Chef Large Bar Pan (a glam mom can NEVER have too much stoneware!) I cover it with waxed paper and push it all down nice and pretty and even before I pop it into the oven.

Granola goodness!!! And what do you do with all the little bits that fall off after you’ve cut them and put them on your plate? Top off a cup of delicious Chobani blueberry, of course 🙂

Kitchen Sink Granola Bars:

3 cups of organic rolled oats

1/4 cup sucanat (they are plenty sweet without this, but I’ve been craving dessert this entire pregnancy!)

1/2 cup ground flax seeds

3/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon cardamom

1 cup spelt flour

1/2 cup almond meal/flour

1/2 cup raisins

1 cup dried blueberries

3/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup raw honey

1 egg, beaten

1/2 cup olive (or coconut) oil

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a large bar pan/cookie sheet with olive or coconut oil.

In a large bowl mix together all your dry ingredients. In a smaller bowl mix together oil, egg, vanilla and honey. Make a well in the center of your dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Mix well using a large wooden spoon. Put mixture into the pan, cover with wax paper and pat out evenly.

Bake for 22 minutes, take out and cut into your desired serving sizes, then put back in the oven for an additional 5 to 15 minutes depending on how chewy/crunchy you like your granola. (I usually only do 5 more minutes as I’m not a huge fan of crunchy or hard granola bars). Take the pan out and let it cool for 5 minutes before removing your granola goodies from the baking sheet! Enjoy!

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