Easy Granola Bars are wonderfully chewy and delicious, made with two kinds of cereal and dried cranberries. I found this recipe in a Land O Lakes® magazine, published in 2007.
I like cereal bars for lots of reasons, one of the most important ones is that you don’t have to turn on your oven during the hot summer months to make them. They are easy to transport to a picnic or backyard party and they usually don’t have to be refrigerated.
They are very easy to make. Start by combining cereals in large bowl.
Add dried cranberries.
Melt marshmallows with butter; stir into cereal mixture. Because the mixture was hot, Blake's dad, Jason, did the stirring while Papa watched on.
Put on rubber gloves (spread with butter) to make it easier to press the hot mixture into pan.
Then, they are done--just like that! Something to be proud of.
Easy Granola Bars
3 cups granola cereal
2 cups Cheerios® toasated oats cereal (any flavor)
1 cup sweetened dried cranberries
¼ cup butter
1 package (10 oz) marshmallows
Butter bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan.
Combine cereals and cranberries in large bowl. Set aside.
Combine butter and marshmallows in 2-quart saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until melted and smooth. Remove from heat; pour over cereal mixture; stir until well mixed.
Spoon mixture into prepared pan. Using buttered fingers, press evenly into pan. Cut into bars.
32 bars