Cocoa/chocolate granola
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | cups | Rolled oats |
| ½ | cup | Unsweetened cocoa powder |
| 1 | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | cup | Honey |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
Directions
Now that I've been trying to fall back on the wagon again I recently took a look in the fatfree archives for the cocoa/chocolate granola recipe I'd posted here some years ago. I found my apricot granola one but not the chocolate, so I tried what I *thought* I'd probably done before, it worked out fine, and I'm posting it here.
If, like me, you have big cravings for something sweet, chocolate and crunchy, I think you'll find this simple recipe very worth making, because when you're crunching it up in your mouth it's like eating a chocolate cookie.
The amount of salt is just on the edge of noticeable, and I think it adds to the effect by suggesting the kind of slightly-salty taste you get from having buttered a baking pan (or the kind of taste you get with chocolate-covered peanuts). So if you either shouldn't have or don't care for salt, you will probably want to use less.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees: Dump oats, cocoa and salt into a big bowl, and mix until the oats are evenly coated. Add honey and vanilla and work this mixture with your *hands* until it's all evenly mixed/ coated.
Spread it all out on a large cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes, taking it out every five minutes to stir it around.
If you live in a humid climate like I do, you'll want to put it in an airtight container shortly after taking it out of the oven, so it stays very crunchy.
When I made this the other day I also put in ½ tsp of coconut extract ...
almond extract would probably also be good. Posted to fatfree digest V97 #019 by "Tane' Tachyon" <tachyon@...> on Mar 07, 1997