Cocoa-Coconut Granola Bars

Why buy granola bars when you can use this recipe to get crisp, chewy, and chocolate-y granola bars straight from your own oven?

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 45 mins
• Total Time: 60 mins
• Calories: 225 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups rolled oats
• 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon coconut extract
• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 0.5 cup honey
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 cup sliced almonds
• 0.25 cup chia seeds
• 0.5 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 0.25 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 0.5 cup flax seed meal

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.

Step 2

Spread rolled oats, flax seed meal, sliced almonds, shredded coconut, and chia seeds onto a baking sheet.

Step 3

Toast oats mixture in preheated oven, stirring every 5 minutes, until lightly toasted, about 15 minutes.

Step 4

Reduce oven heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).

Step 5

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.

Step 6

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.

Step 7

Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes.

Step 8

Cool bars in pan for 10 minutes, immediately cut into squares, and remove from pan.