pb granola bars

I have noticed that many of the gals out in blogland have been making their own granola bars lately. I have had success in the past making my own granola, so I thought I might try my hand at granola bars this week.

I have many, many recipes bookmarked, so I gave them all a once over to determine which recipe to start with. I settled on a Peanut Butter and Honey Granola Bar recipe from Active Life Cooking. Mostly because I love peanut butter and had most of the ingredients in my pantry.

They were super simple to make and while hard to photograph turned out pretty darn yummy.  If you take a look at the recipe it calls for your favorite “chaser” and “additives.” I chose flax seed as my chaser, sunflower seeds, almonds and dried cranberries as my additives and also included some rice protein powder (I try to stay away from all soy products and vegan rice protein powder was suggested by my niece as a good alternative – it is great in smoothies too).

The only one thing I may change next time is to toast the oatmeal a bit more before mixing all the ingredients together so that my granola bars might be a bit crunchier.

I think I will keep trying granola bar recipes so I can compare and determine which is my favorite. Anyone have any good recipes to share?

Comments

[Marguerite]

Wow, after all this time thinking I was alone (and having some very angry people tell me I must be making it up as an excuse for not drinking their soy milk), I find there are is at least one other person out there with whom soy doesn't agree! (little bits of mainly-wheat-based Kikkoman soy sauce in Chinese food are fine; soy milk or soybean salads are not!)

I've been making these: http://downwithclutter.blogspot.com/2009/10/irish-oaty-cakes.html and tossing in dried cranberries -- will add peanut butter next. They're very granola-bar-y. And very good.

[Colleen]

Those look yummy. I never thought to make my own bars, what an a-ha moment!

I don't do soy either. It makes my tummy VERY unhappy.

Have a great weekend!

[Paula]

Your granola bars look quite tasty. I've never made any, but you may change my mind about trying to do so!

[frank]

These look amazing!

note: the picture is missing the small glass of milk required as a part of the experience in enjoying these :-)

[Alli]

Mmmmm, that looks really good! I've never tried making my own granola or granola bars (I'm not very handy in the kitchen...); was it difficult?