No Bake Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
 
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Perfect snack on-the-go, these chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars are dangerously easy to make and taste fantastic! No more buying granola bars from the market because these ones taste better than the store bought bars!
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Makes: 6-8 medium bars
Ingredients
  • • Softened Butter, 3 tablespoons (Amul)
  • • Dark Brown Sugar, 5 tablespoons
  • • Vanilla Essence, 1 teaspoon
  • • Quaker Oats, ½ cup
  • • Fruit and Nut Muesli, ½ cup
  • • Rice Puffs, 1 cup
  • • Dried Cranberries, ⅓ cup (optional; you can use dried figs, cherries, raisins etc.)
  • • Chocolate Chips, ¼ cup
Method
  1. Take a rectangular baking tray and line it with foil. Brush the foil with melted butter or oil. Set aside.
  2. In a bowl, mix together, oats, rice puffs and muesli and set aside to be used later.
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  4. Transfer butter and dark brown sugar to a heavy bottomed pan.
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  6. Cook them on medium flame until they've melted and the mixture reaches a boil. Keep stirring the mixture using a spatula to avoid burning. Once the mixture is boiling, lower the heat and let the sugar melt completely on a really low flame for exactly 2 minutes. Keep stirring.
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  8. Once you take the mixture off the heat, add in the vanilla essence and mix it in. Now toss in the dry ingredients you set aside (oats, muesli and rice puffs) before and mix them in too along with the dried cranberries.
  9. Transfer this mixture in the baking tray you prepared in the first step and sprinkle chocolate chips over it. Now using a spatula pat down the ingredients to get a flat surface. Make sure the granola is tightly packed.
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  11. Refrigerate this for 2 hours and then cut out bars using a sharp knife. Make sure your granola bars are thick or they will break. Keep the bars in the refrigerator. :)
Recipe by Sugar & Spice by Radhika at https://sugarnspicebyradhika.in/no-bake-chocolate-chip-granola-bars/