I'm trying to be good*. I could have made those sugar cookies I've
been sitting on for a while, but I decided I'd try my hand at granola
bars because those are healthy, right? Chocolate chip granola bars?
I've had a jar of honey from my friend's farm sitting in my cupboard for
several years now. The internet tells me that honey doesn't ever go
bad, and if I can't trust the internet, who can I trust? Unfortunately,
the honey had solidified into a crystal-ly mass in the mason jar. The
internet also tells me that if I soak the jar in boiling water it will
return to its original form.
So I boil the jar in a medium-sized pot of water and
attempt to mix the rest of the ingredients together while I wait. All
goes well until I hit the brown sugar and I remember that my brown sugar
has also solidified into a hard mass. For this, I have no internet
tips. I probably could have looked something up, but my hands were all
sticky and washing them off proved to be too much effort. So I decided
to dampen the brown sugar block in water and then use a cheese grater
to break it apart. This was a great idea in theory. In practice, it
basically turned into brown sugar goop. Between the goop and the hot
honey, these granola bars are a little on the, uh, chewy/moist side.
* No, I'm not. I just ate pumpkin cheesecake directly out of the box with a fork.
Granola Bars
recipe from
Jackie Norris
Ingredients
2 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 t. ground cinnamon
1 cup flour
3/4 cup chocolate chips (or dried fruit)
3/4 t. salt
1/2 cup honey
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup canola oil
2 t. vanilla
Preheat
the oven to 350. Either line a 9×13 pan with parchment or grease
thoroughly. In a large bowl, mix oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, flour,
chocolate chips and salt. Add remaining ingredients, gently mixing it
all together. Press the mixture into prepared pan and bake for 25-30
minutes.
