Chocolate and Butterscotch Chips Granola Bars

Name: Chocolate and Butterscotch Chips Granola Bars
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters corn syrup; 59 milliliters (3 ounces) VERY firmly packed light or dark brown sugar; 59 milliliters maple syrup; 118 milliliters roughly chopped pecans or walnuts; 118 milliliters Rice Krispies; 473 milliliters rolled oats; 1 teaspoons salt; 79 milliliters mixed semi-sweet and butterscotch chips; 118 milliliters sunflower seed kernels; 118 milliliters coconut, sweetened flaked or unsweetened; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter, softened; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Chocolate and Butterscotch Chips Granola Bars might be just the morn meal you are searching for. One serving contains 201 calories, 3g of protein, and 12g of fat. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 16. Head to the store and pick up pecans, butter, maple syrup, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

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Oven

Place the pecans on a large baking sheet and roast the pecans for about 2 minutes.

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Pecans

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Baking Sheet

Add the coconut to the baking sheet and roast along with the pecans for another 4 minutes or until coconut starts to brown and pecans become aromatic.

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Coconut

Pecans

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Baking Sheet

Transfer to a mixing bowl.

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Mixing Bowl

Add the oats and sunflower seeds to baking sheet and toast for about 8 minutes, stirring every 4 minutes, or just until oats start to brown.

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Sunflower Seeds

Toast

Oats

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Baking Sheet

Add the toasted oats and seeds to the bowl with the nuts and coconut.

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Coconut

Seeds

Nuts

Oats

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Bowl

Add the Rice Krispies.Raise the oven temperature to 450 degrees F and line a 9×13 inch METAL pan with nonstick foil.Stir the salt, butter, corn syrup, maple syrup and brown sugar together in a saucepan. Turn heat to medium and bring to a boil.

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Brown Sugar

Maple Syrup

Corn Syrup

Butter

Rice

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Aluminum Foil

Oven

Frying Pan

Place a candy thermometer in the saucepan and allow mixture to boil over medium heat, without stirring, until mixture reaches 248 degrees F or “firm ball stage” on a deep fry or candy thermometer.

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Candy

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Candy Thermometer

Sauce Pan

Remove from heat and quickly pour syrup over dry ingredients.

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Syrup

Add the vanilla, and stir until dry ingredients are moistened.

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Vanilla

Pour into the pan. With a sheet of nonstick foil, press down flat.

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Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Sprinkle the chips across the top.

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French Fries

Put the pan in the oven and bake for 5 to 6 minutes at 450 degree F.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Remove from oven. They will be hot, bubbly and mushy.

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Oven

Let cool for 8 to 10 minutes. Score the bars in half lengthwise, then cut crosswise to make 14 to 16 bars, depending on how skinny you want them. Do not separate (they’ll be too mushy, anyway).

Let cool for another hour or until bars are room temperature. Pull them apart and wrap individually.

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