Chocolate Cereal Breakfast Bars
Craft your very own chewy energy or granola bars featuring a mildly sweet chocolate essence complemented by subtle notes of coconut and almond.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups rolled oats
- 1 cup puffed brown rice cereal
- ½ cup chopped raw almonds
- ⅓ cup shredded coconut
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- tiny pinch cayenne pepper
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Gather all your ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8×8 pan with butter and line with parchment paper.
- Combine rolled oats, puffed brown rice cereal, almonds, coconut, cocoa powder, salt, and cayenne in a bowl.
- Combine brown sugar, maple syrup, vegetable oil, and water in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Stir, and let the mixture boil for 1 minute.
- Pour sugar mixture over the dry ingredients in the bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Transfer to the prepared pan, and smooth out the top, pressing lightly with a spatula.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. While still hot, use a spatula to score the pan into 8 portions.
- Let cool to room temperature before breaking into bars. You can also not score, and simply let cool, then cut with a knife.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Any and all ready-to-eat cereal grains, or packaged breakfast cereals can be used here along with any types of dried fruit, nuts, and/or seeds.
Nutrition
Calories: 264kcalCarbohydrates: 38gProtein: 5gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 3gSodium: 247mgPotassium: 226mgFiber: 4g
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