Recipe: Appetizing No Bake Granola

No Bake Granola. It's a great snack and perfect to top your yogurt or cereal with in the mornings! You can also customize the toppings to whatever you like best — raisins, craisins, mini chocolate chips, pistachios, almonds, cashews, coconut flakes, chia seeds, etc.. This is the perfect "basic", no-bake, whole-food granola bar recipe I've tried!

Easy and quick to prepare and, most of all, yummy! The recipe is easy enough that you can also make it with kids. Here are some variations on this granola bar recipe that I've come up with over the years. You can have No Bake Granola using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of No Bake Granola

1. Prepare of Wet stuff.
2. You need of Agave Syrup.
3. You need of almond butter.
4. It's of chocolate morsels.
5. Prepare of Dry stuff.
6. Prepare of granola cereal.
7. Prepare of dried cranberries.
8. It's of Apple, chopped.

Nut lovers, this would work with walnuts (presumably) or almonds, too. Store-bought granola bars are typically packed with sugar and they don't even taste very good. There are a few reasons I obsess over these no bake granola bars. No baking required: all you need is a microwave or stovetop.

No Bake Granola instructions

1. In a saucepan, over medium-low heat, combine the wet ingredients until melted..
2. Optional- add seasoning to the wet. I have used cinnamon and ancho chili powder to give it a Mexican flavor..
3. In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients..
4. Slowly pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients while mixing constantly. I recommend a wooden spoon..
5. When all of the dry is fully saturated with the wet, pour the mess onto a large sheet of parchment paper. Fold over the parchment paper and push the larger flat edge of a cookie sheet into it, wedding the mass onto a long. Stick it in the fridge for about an hour. For Halloween, I had formed it all into a skull which I decorated with icing..
6. Once it has cooled down, remove the log from the fridge, Peel back the paper, and slice it into discs..

I live in Arizona, so turning on my oven during the summer months is just not an option. Quick and easy snacks are my favorite, and even better if they require no baking! We clearly love our no bake snacks here, like this cashew cookie no bake bar, brownie larabars, and my favorite nut-free energy balls. It's time to go back to basics with the classic lunch box staple- The humble granola bar. These no-bake granola bars contain only five ingredients, no added sugar, and are infinitely customizable… A perfect lunchbox snack!