Peanut Butter Granola {With Honey-Roasted Peanuts}


I'm non a picky eater.  Well, except for simply a few things.  Like fish.  And dark olives.  And caraway seeds.  And peanut butter.

Yes, I'm extremely picky when it comes to peanut butter.  I similar it best straight-up on a spoon, simply scooped out of the jar.

Just plain, slathered on a slice of bread?  Okay.  On toast or an English linguistic communication muffin? ...

I tin handgrip that.  A Reese's peanut butter loving cup amongst chocolate?  Yes ... but only the mini ones that lead maintain to a greater extent than chocolate than peanut butter .  The 'big' ones have, well, ... simply besides much peanut butter stuff.

So, how virtually a peanut butter together with jelly sandwich, you lot ask?  Absolutely not!  No way, no how.  Can't stand upward it.  That other childhood classic combination of peanut butter together with marshmallow fluff?  Nope.  And don't fifty-fifty teach me started on peanut butter together with bananas.  Ick.


Until recently, I didn't fifty-fifty similar peanut butter inwards baked goods or desserts.  Can you lot believe it?  But ... I appear to live on getting over that dislike (case inwards betoken - Black Bottom Peanut Butter Icebox Pie).  Hmmmm, perchance that's non a practiced thing.

So when I decided I wanted to try making peanut butter granola, I surprised fifty-fifty myself.



And turns out, it was a actually yummy surprise!  I constitute the master recipe over at Chocolate, Chocolate together with More, together with hence tweaked it quite a bit.  No shocker there, right? ... If you lot read hither often, you lot pretty much know I can't teach out a recipe alone.  I've ever got to try a matter or 2 ... or 3 ... different.

The biggest tweak I made was to seat inwards honey-roasted peanuts.  Total yum!  Just accept a peek at those beautiful granola chunks amongst tasty honey-roasted peanuts ...


I'm hence glad I took the plunge to brand this peanut butter granola.  While chai granola is withal my all-time favorite, this i is a super unopen second!

Now, on a totally dissimilar note, I'd similar to portion amongst you lot i of the absolute coolest Christmas presents I've ever received.  'Cause I used it every bit the background for the peanut butter granola photos.

See those petty bits of letters peeking out on the corner of the cutting board inwards the photograph below?  Mmmm, hmmmm ... there's something actually cool hiding in that place ...

Wait for it ...

Wait for it ...

Ohhhhh!  There it is!


How cool is that??  It's a personalized cherry cutting board amongst my spider web log mention engraved inwards it!  My Mom together with Dad surprised me amongst it for Christmas ... together with I mean value it's simply i of the sweetest things ever.

It's made past times cherryBLOX, a fellowship owned past times friends of our family.  They simply started offering these actually cool personalized cutting boards a few months agone ... together with I love them.  Pop on over together with visit them to run into what they tin whip upward for you!

Peanut Butter Granola amongst Honey-Roasted Peanuts
Ingredients
  • 3 c. old-fashioned oats
  • 3/4 c. creamy peanut butter
  • 3/4 c. honey
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/4 c. wheat germ
  • 3/4 c. sunflower seeds
  • 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1 c. honey-roasted peanuts
Directions
  1. In a large bowl, combine oats, wheat germ, sunflower seeds, together with honey-roasted peanuts.
  2. Combine peanut butter together with dearest inwards a small-scale bowl together with microwave, virtually xxx seconds, until peanut butter melts. Stir to mix well. Add inwards solid soil cinnamon together with vanilla extract; stir again.
  3. Pour peanut butter mixture into oat mixture together with stir until oats are completely coated amongst the peanut butter mixture.
  4. Spread granola mixture onto a baking pan lined amongst parchment newspaper or aluminum foil. Bake at 300 degrees for xxx to 35 minutes, stirring virtually every 10 minutes. Remove from oven together with permit cool completely. Store inwards an airtight container.
Enjoy!




Subscribe to receive free email updates:

0 Response to "Peanut Butter Granola {With Honey-Roasted Peanuts}"

Post a Comment