These recipes are for divine, but I hope every one will enjoy them.
Whole Foods Granola Bars
2 cups raw almonds
1 cup apple sauce
1 ½ tea spoon cinnamon
1 ½ cups water
1 ½ cups dried Peaches or Apricots
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
½ cup ground flax seed
½ cup whole wheat flour
5 cups Old Fashioned Oats
Honey or other natural sweeter to taste
Soak the almonds in water for at least 5 or 6 hours. Drain.
In a blender, combine almonds, applesauce, cinnamon
and the 1 ½ cups of water. Thoroughly process the mixture in the blender, then pour into a large mixing bowl. Add the remainder of the ingredients to he bowl and mix.
Take ¼ cup of the dough and plop onto a parchment or wax paper lined cookie sheet or dehydrator tray if you have one. Flatten each glob to about ½ inch thick. It should be 24-28 bars. Dry in dehydrator until the bars are hard. If you don’t have a dehydrator, put the bars on a cookie sheet into the oven on the lowest temperature and leave the door cracked open for a make shift dehydrator.
Trail Balls
½ cup peanut butter
½ cup honey
1 cup powdered soy milk
1 cup Old Fashion Oats
¼ cup toasted wheat germ
Combine peanut butter and honey. Add soy milk powder and oatmeal. Mix it up, then shape into balls. Roll the balls in the toasted wheat germ. Wrap individually with wax paper or plastic wrap. Makes a couple of dozen balls.
Breakfast Bars (good any time of the day
2 2/3 cups old fashion Oats
½ cup plus 1 tablespoon whole wheat flour
6 tablespoons all-purpose bleached whole wheat flour
½ cup sesame seeds
½ cup brown sugar
¼ tea spoon cinnamon
1 ½ tea spoon salt
1/3 cup powdered soy milk
½ cup vegetable oil
¾ cup honey
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients together. Heat oil, honey and vanilla in a pan, then add to the dry ingredients in the bowl. Stir well. Pat the batter into a 9x13 inch parchment lined pan. Bars should be about ½ inch thick. Cook for 30 min. Cool then slice into 32 bars.
