The best part of making homemade granola, ok, two best parts: 1. It’s the easiest baking project ever 2. You can make it any flavor you darn well please.
I’ve been obsessed with gingerbread this winter. Cookies, cake loaves, muffins, mug cakes… you name it.
So I had to make a gingerbread granola to adorn my yogurt bowl with for the coziest mornings. This granola is low in added sugar so it’s as good of a breakfast choice as it gets!
OK, if you’re ready, let me teach you this easiest baking trick that I guarantee you will fall in love with and keep creating your own flavors granola at home.
The possibilities are literally endless. PS, I’m also going to teach you my trick to make mad CLUSTERS!
Easy Gingerbread Granola
Let me show you how to make homemade granola with basic ingredients!
Servings: 18 1/4 cup servings
Calories: 149kcal
Equipment
- Cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted (60 g) sub other oil
- 1/4 cup almond butter (64 g)
- 2 tbsp maple syrup (42 g)
- 2 tbsp unsulphured molasses (42 g)
- 4 cups rolled oats (320 g)
- 1/2 cup chopped/slivered almonds (60 g)
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg/cloves or both!
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (or more) raisins Optional, add if you like your granola sweet.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- In a medium bowl melt coconut oil (I use the microwave) and blend with almond butter, maple syrup, molasses.
- If you want clusters in your granola, process 1 cup oats in to oat flour. Otherwise skip this step.
- In a large bowl whisk together oats (oat flour), spices, almonds.
- Pour wet into dry and mix until oats are thoroughly coated.
- Spread evenly into cookie sheet and bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, quickly stirring every 15 minutes for even baking.
- Let granola cool and stir in raisins if using.
- Store in a sealed container. Enjoy! Keeps forever LOL.
Notes
- Granola keeps forever, you’ll finish it before it remotely goes stale.
- Here’s the ULTIMATE breakfast formula: 3/4 cup greek yogurt, 1/4 cup granola, 1/2 fruit, 1 tbsp nut/seed butter. šĀ
Nutrition
Calories: 149kcal