Peanut Butter Granola
Weather: 46 degrees, choppy seas and grey skies
What I’m listening to: a leaf blower outside the window
My children shamelessly break the rules of childhood by not being fans of the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich. My eldest will only eat PB & J if the ‘J’ stands for apricot jam. The younger set will forego all varieties of jams and jellies with their peanut butter, instead opting for one thing: honey. In our house, it’s PB & H all the way, thanks to my picky children.
When the time came to whip up a batch of granola, I knew that this peanut butter granola sweetened with honey would be a big hit with everyone in the house. It was barely out of the oven before there were little hands in the kitchen reaching for nibbles of still-warm peanut butter granola. If you like your granola with more texture, feel free to add dried fruit and/or nuts in the last 5-10 minutes of baking.
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Peanut Butter Granola
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup honey
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- 4 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325℉. Line two baking sheets with aluminum foil; set aside.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Whisk in the honey, brown sugar, peanut butter, cinnamon, and sea salt until combined.
- In a mixing bowl, stir together the oats and the coconut. Pour the peanut butter and honey mixture over the oats, and working quickly, stir to evenly coat.
- Divide the oats evenly between the two prepared baking sheets and spread it out in a single layer. Season it with a little more fine sea salt to enhance the flavors.
- Bake in preheated oven 20 minutes. Remove the pans from the oven, stir the granola with a spatula, spread it back out, and return it to the oven for 5-10 more minutes, or until fragrant and browned.
- Allow the granola to cool completely before breaking it up and storing in an airtight container for up to two weeks. Enjoy with on its own, with milk as a cereal, or on fruit and yogurt.
Oh yummy! I’ll be making this! By the way, THANK YOU for giving my son & his girlfriend (Dan & Taylor) a lift somewhere in Alaska recently..they flew into Anchorage & were on their way to Homer. How thankful I was to hear that God sent an “angel”, YOU, to minister to our children! God bless you! ~Dan’s mom 🙂
@Sue Hi Sue! So nice to meet you. I’m really happy that you popped in to say hello. It was great meeting Dan and Taylor. We hit it off famously and I was so happy that I picked them up. I hope you’ll keep in touch.
alaskafromscratch You be safe out there!!!! Btw, do you happen to know the nutritional values on the granola?!
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