Cocoa-Coconut Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats
- ½ cup flax seed meal
- ½ cup sliced almonds
- ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup chia seeds (Optional)
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
- Spread rolled oats, flax seed meal, sliced almonds, shredded coconut, and chia seeds onto a baking sheet.
- Toast oats mixture in preheated oven, stirring every 5 minutes, until lightly toasted, about 15 minutes.
- Reduce oven heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- 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.
- 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.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes.
- Cool bars in pan for 10 minutes, immediately cut into squares, and remove from pan.
Source
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