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Homemade muesli bars - with fruit, coconut, chocolate and mixed seeds
- Cooking with Kids
- Feeds a Crowd
"This is based from the weekend SMH, very, very good" – Yolanda Derham.
These are soooo gooooood! You will never turn back to store bought again.
They are super easy and so much better than anything you could ever buy – plus no preservatives! I will explain how you mix up the recipe with your favourite combo – you need scales to make this really easy.
The most requested snack by far – adults and kids.
Makes 20 – 30 depending how large the pieces are. V.
Pictured: Muesli bars, nut free with fruit coconut and mixed seeds
Ingredients
- 50g self- raising flour
- 300g rolled oats
- 55g desiccated coconut
- 50g sesame seeds
- 100g mixed seeds – linseed, pumpkin/pepita, sunflower seeds
- 125g - 250g dried fruit – goji berries, currants, raisins, cranberries, craisins
- 175g soft brown sugar
- 175g mix of coconut oil* and unsalted butter
- 125ml mix of any sweet syrup – honey, rice syrup, golden syrup,maple syrup
- 50- 100g dark chocolate, chopped
- Optional -
- add some weight in puffed rice or quinoa
- *the more coconut oil the crunchier they become when stored in the fridge
- Grease and line a slice tin. Preheat the oven to 170 °C.
- Sift flour and a pinch of salt into a large mixing bowl.
- Stir in oats, coconut, seeds and fruit.
- Mix through sugar.
Method
Melt the butter and coconut oil with the sweet syrup mix (honey, golden syrup, rice syrup) in a small saucepan over a low heat. Remove from heat, leave to cool for 5 minutes and then pour butter mixture into a bowl of dry ingredients.
Mix with a large metal spoon or spatula.
Pictured: Muesli bars, nut free with fruit coconut and mixed seeds –the mix ready for the tin
Press mixture into the prepared tin.
Pictured: Muesli bars, nut free with fruit coconut and mixed seeds – pressing the mix into prepared tin
Bake 25 – 30 minutes, or until golden (it may be a little soft when touched but will firm up when cooled).
In the last 5 minutes of cooking, sprinkle over the chocolate to melt in the final stage.
Pictured: Muesli bars, nut free with fruit coconut and mixed seeds – adding the chocolate near the end of cooking
Allow to cool in tin. I firm it in the fridge for a few minutes for easier slicing.
Then turn out and cut into bars or squares.
You can store in an airtight container for up to 7 days.
Dietary preferences
- Vegetarian
