Brown Sugar Baked Granola
A delicious recipe for Brown Sugar Baked Granola. Easy to make and perfect for snacking and camping! You can add all kinds of extras like chocolate, candy or nuts.
Making granola at home is easy and so so delicious! Much better than store bought because you can put what ever you like into it. Here is a simple and tasty recipe that you can make your own.
About this Brown Sugar Baked Granola:
This homemade recipe for granola is sweetened with brown sugar. It’s baked in the oven to give it a toasty crunchy delicious flavour.
A versatile snack:
This is a simple, flexible, tasty and inexpensive snack that you can make at home! Perfect for breakfast with milk, or as an after school snack for the kids. Add extra ingredients and make it a trail mix for hikes, camping, cross country ski trips or skating adventures at the lake. Pack into little individual packages, and you have nutritious and yummy trail mix snack for your whole family.
Brown Sugar Baked Granola Recipe Tips:
- OATS: Use rolled oats, not quick oats or instant oats.
- SWEETENER This recipe calls for 1 cup brown sugar, but you can substitute some of that sugar with honey: 1/3 cup brown sugar and 2/3 cup honey.
- BUTTER: You can also substitute the butter for coconut oil.
- FLAVOUR OPTION : Substitute the butter for 1/2 cup of peanut butter. Just mix it in before baking, with the water and sugar.
- CHEWY OR CRUNCHY: If you like granola more chewy, then bake it for about 15 minutes. If you like it more crunchy and with more toasted oat-y flavour, bake it longer.
- GRANOLA HARDENS AS IT COOLS: Granola will harden as it cools, so don’t fret if it’s falling apart right after coming out of the oven. After about 15 minutes or so of cooling, it will harden into chunks.
- MORE TASTY ADDITIONS: You can add chia seeds, hemp seeds, raisins, shredded coconut (about 1/2 cup)…use your imagination!
Make it a Trail Mix!
The best thing about this granola recipe is you can turn it into a homemade trail mix to take hiking and camping! Here are some delicious additions:
- Dried fruit: apricots, cherries, blueberries, apples, craisins
- Chocolate coated candy like Smarties or M&M’s
- Sunflower seeds
- Nuts: peanuts, cashews, almonds, pecans, walnuts, either toasted or untoasted. Toasted nuts pack more flavour!
Brown Sugar Baked Granola
A delicious recipe for Brown Sugar Baked Granola. Easy to make and perfect for snacking and camping! You can add all kinds of extras like chocolate, candy or nuts.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 5 cups granola 1x
- Category: Snack
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
- 4 cups rolled oats (don’t use quick oats)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
OPTIONS to add after baking (I used about 1 cup combined):
- candy coated chocolate
- nuts
- shredded coconut
- chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
- In a large pot melt the butter, then mix in sugar and water.
- Stir in the vanilla and cinnamon.
- Add the oats. Mix well.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper then spread out the granola mixture in an even layer.
- Bake for 15-25 minutes. Watch that it doesn’t burn.
- Once the granola has cooled, add some tasty treats like candy coated chocolate, nuts or shredded coconut.
Keywords: granola recipe, brown sugar granola, honey granola
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That looks really good, Jo-Anna. I love trail mix and granola. I’ll definitely have to make some. I’m with you about adding the honey. LOVE honey! Thanks for sharing. : )
~ Catie
That mix looks incredible. I’ve never seen cherry flavoured chips before. I’ll need to look for them.
I have used your recipe exclusively for my granola for years and my family just loves it. They don’t even need any add ins of chocolate or raisins, they love it just as is. Thank you for sure a great recipe. Oh and I used dairy free olive oil based butter instead of dairy butter and it turns out perfect every time.
I love this! I’m so happy you and your family enjoy it!
Yum! I’m definitely interested in that Trail Mix…thanks for sharing!
I love a good trail mix and this is so pretty!
This is a snack I know I would not be able to keep my hands out of!
Love a tasty and healthy snack and this one fits the bill.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my Group ‘A’ SRC entry: Crunchy Fudgy Heart Bites
Lisa~~
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Oh my, looks sooooo good. Never saw those cute chips before – will be on the lookout for them.
🙂
Patricia
I hope you’ll stop by to see my SRC Giant Chocolate Toffee Cookies.
http://butteryum.blogspot.com/2012/02/giant-chocolate-toffee-cookies.html
Wow, this looks delicious! Definitely something I want to try over the weekend. Yum!
I swear I left a comment on this post this morning…not sure if I didn’t hit submit or what…but anyhoo…I’m so glad you liked my granola and the trail mix you came up with is great! Love those cherry-chips….YUM!
Coconut. GREAT idea! I love Averie, she’s the perfect mix of healthy and so-bad-for-you-desserts! I’m stopping by from SRC but I’d love if you check our my new site seasonalpotluck.com February is oranges month so if you have any orange recipes, we’d love if you’d link up! http://bit.ly/zDoNfx
great pick, i love granola. i have been watching averie’s blog for a while, so i know how hard choosing one of her recipes must have been. your blog is so beautiful!
Those both look amazing! I can’t wait to try… the trail mix is so pretty and colorful. My kiddo loves trail mix, but I might like it even more!