Easy Baked Homemade Granola
This easy homemade granola recipe is crunchy, lightly sweet, and perfect for breakfast, snacking, or holiday gift giving. Made with wholesome oats, nuts, and warm spices, it’s a delicious homemade alternative to store-bought granola.
Why you’ll love this Homemade Granola
Homemade Granola makes for a wonderful gift. It’s easy to make and it’s a great snack or can be eaten for breakfast in a number of ways. Granola is also easy to personalize to your taste or the taste of the person you are giving it to. Granola is also a great recipe that your children can help you make and give to their teachers, coaches, and bus drivers as an appreciation gift.
If you are keeping for yourself store it in an airtight container. Granola freezes well in freezer safe Zip-loc bag. Make sure that granola is completely cooled and remove as much air as possible before freezing.
Easy Baked Homemade Granola
Equipment
- baking sheet
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 4 cups old fashioned oats
- 1/4 cup wheat germ
- 1/4 cup flax seed
- 1/2 cup walnuts use whatever is your favorite or multiple types of nuts
- 1/2 cup dried cherries cherries, blueberries, cranberries, apples, raisins, golden raisins, use whatever you have
- 1/2 cup pepitas optional
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a sauce pan on stovetop over medium low heat add butter, honey, maple syrup. Whisk together until butter has melted and ingredients are combined. Bring to a low bowl for 1 minute then turn off heat and add salt and vanilla. Whisk.
- In a large mixing bowl combine oats, wheat germ, and flax. Toss to combine.
- Pour granola coating over oat mixture in large bowl, using a spatula stir to combine making all of the oats are covered in coating. Pour out on to parchment lined baking sheet.
- Place in preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and move around on the sheet pan breaking granola up a bit. Return to oven and bake another 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and add nuts, dried fruit, and pepitas. Toss to mix * the reason I do not add these in when I make the granola is because the nuts will burn and the dried fruit gets really tough
- Let cool on pan and store in an airtight container.
Great idea. I like the brown paper bag idea too. I think I’ll be making homemade granola this year, along with a few others. Happy Holidays!
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~ Yaya
I realize the printable recipe is not working….I'm gonna fix it QUICK!
We are having family in town this week and I wanted to offer my mom~in~love homemade granola for breakfasts… and have been hunting for a good recipe. I just found it! Thanks!!!