Fruit And Nut Granola Bars

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• parchment paper, for lining
• 2 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 cup cereal
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup raw unsalted walnuts
• 1 cup unsalted sunflower seeds
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1 cup cranberries, boiled and mashed
• 2 egg whites
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350*f. line a 9x13" baking pan with parchment paper.
• 2 mix dry ingredients in a large bowl (oats, flour, cereal, walnuts, sunflower seeds, and raisins). by "cereal", i mean the kind of cereal you eat cold with milk (or soy milk, etc.). any kind will work!
• 3 in a separate bowl, mix egg whites, eggs, and vegetable oil together. add maple syrup and honey. if you don't have/don't want to use maple syrup and honey (or have another sweetener you want to use), just use 1/4 cup of that sweetener.
• 4 add bananas and boiled cranberries to the bowl of wet ingredients and mix well.
• 5 add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
• 6 stir in brown sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla extract. depending on how sweet you want the bars to be, you may want adjust the amount of brown sugar. 1/2 cup of brown sugar does not make the bars particularly sweet because of the boiled cranberries, so you might want to add more if you like very sweet bars.
• 7 put granola bar mixture into lined 9x13" pan, and press firmly. pack this very tightly, as this will help them hold together!
• 8 place pan in the oven and bake for 25-35 minutes, or until golden brown.
• 9 remove pan from oven and let cool completely (it could take up to an hour).
• 10 once the pan has cooled, lift the granola bars out of the pan by grabbing the parchment paper. place it on a cutting board/cutting surface.
• 11 cut the bars into whatever size you like, and enjoy!