These no-bake granola bars without peanut butter are easy and delicious. They taste just like the store-bought chewy kind. My husband asks me to make these at least once a week!
Ingredients
- rolled oats: 1 cup
- steel-cut oats: 1 cup
- crispy rice cereal: 1 cup
- mixed dried fruit: 0.5 cup (chopped)
- almonds: 0.5 cup (chopped)
- butter: 0.25 cup
- brown sugar: 0.5 cup
- honey: 0.25 cup
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp
- mini chocolate chips: 0.5 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
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Mix rolled oats, steel-cut oats, rice cereal, dried fruit, and almonds together in a large bowl.
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Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; add brown sugar, honey, and vanilla. Whisk until sugar is completely dissolved, about 2 minutes. Pour over oat mixture; stir to combine.
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Spread oat mixture into the prepared baking dish. Press chocolate chips into the top. Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
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Sliced chilled granola mixture into 24 bars.
