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Naturally Dyed Funfetti Granola Bars!

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
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Servings: 16 bars
Author: Renee Kohley - Raising Generation Nourished

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees. If you plan to use granola bar molds, place them on a baking sheet. If you are going to use a baking pan, you can line two 8x8 or 9x9 baking pans with unbleached parchment paper so the paper hangs off the sides (This helps pull them out of the pan to cut them easier later).
  • Put the oats, millet, almond flour, shredded coconut, sprinkles, sea salt, and baking soda in a medium mixing bowl and stir to combine.
  • Melt the coconut oil in a small sauce pan until it is liquid, and then add the honey to melt. Mix the melted liquid ingredients along with the vanilla and almond extracts completely into the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl.
  • Press the granola bar mixture into your granola bar molds, or into your baking pan. I use the back of a spoon to press them into a granola bar mold. When I make granola bars in a baking pan, I use the bottom of a measuring cup to press the mixture in.
  • Bake the granola bars at 325 degrees until golden on the top. For these small granola bar molds, it takes 15 minutes. For these larger granola bar molds, it takes 25 minutes. The baking pans should take between 25-30 minutes.
  • Let the granola bars COOL COMPLETELY before taking them out. You'll be able to pop the granola bars out of the molds. If you are using a baking pan, pull the parchment paper up to take the granola bars out of the pan, and then cut them with a long sharp knife. You can pop the pans in the fridge to help the cooling process along if you need to cut them quicker.

Notes

  • Millet is a fantastic gluten free grain packed with fiber, B vitamins, and antioxidants! It is light, crispy texture when baked! The millet can be swapped for hemp hearts, more oats, or more coconut shreds to change things up based on what you have in the house, though. Flax seeds would work too but will change the color a bit. 
  • If you can't have coconut, or don't like the taste, you can swap the coconut shreds for more oats, and the coconut oil for butter if you can have dairy, or avocado oil. I don't taste the coconut in these bars, but I know some might!
  • If you are at a nut free school, swap the almond flour ground up seeds of any kind, or more hemp hearts, hulled millet, or flax seeds.