Great Granola Goodies

Someday I'll actually get into the habit of posting on my blog more consistently but for now it will be a sporadic thing to happen when I remember and when I have time to actually enter something. We've been making these granola bars a lot lately. My daughter even ran some around to the neighbors. Must have been nice for us to deliver something a little more healthy for once, ha, ha, ha. In other news we actually made it to a planning meeting this month where we chatted as we assembled birthday cards from scrapbooking materials. Hmmm.... got me to thinking about Christmas cards-will we or won't we send them out this year..... Currently reading Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott and enjoying it. I would have liked a description of the Christmas dinner though.


Granola Cereal Bars

½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup peanut butter (we like creamy)
¼ cup light corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups old-fashioned oats (don’t use quick oats-recipe won’t turn out)
1 ½ cups crisp rice cereal
½ cup miniature chocolate chips

Combine the first three ingredients and zap in the microwave on high for a minute. Stir. Zap another 30-60 seconds or until bubbling, then stir again. Add the vanilla, oats and cereal and stir gently so you don't mash the crisp rice cereal. Wait about five minutes for it to cool then stir in the chips. Press into a 9-inch square pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. Cool and cut into bars.
Yield: 1 dozen
This recipe was tested in a 900-watt microwave
(We tried these October 17, 2006 and ended up making another batch on October 18, 2006 because they were so good. Rating: very good from the Wilson family)