In my attempt to get back on track with my eating, I have stopped buying those Quaker chewy granola bars. Not that they are really that awful, but we have just been trying new things. When I saw this recipe on a vegan blog I couldn't wait to try them! This is a really great blog. I even asked her a question and she answered me! The question was about whole wheat pastry flour. I have looked for it, and couldn't find it anywhere. Well, according to MamaPea whole wheat pastry flour = white whole wheat flour. Michelle, is this true? I want to believe, but am not sure... I just so happened to have a bag in my pantry:
Now, this is a vegan recipe, but I didn't quite make it vegan. I don't have vegan butter, or vegan chocolate chips. I am still new at this and all these new ingredients cost money. This one box of cereal cost $4.99!
You combine the dry ingredients:
And the wet ingredients:
Another confession, I could not find brown rice syrup and just used corn syrup which I know goes against everything that I was trying to do, but I was desperate! Mix the two together:
Put in a pan and sprinkle the chocolate chips and press down. This is because the chips will melt, but I wonder since I wasn't using vegan chips it I could just mix them in. Next step, bake!
These were pretty good. They reminded me more of a rice cripsy treat than a granola bar, but that might be due to my corn syrup switch. I may try them later this week with honey/molasses instead. I got 12 bars and they were actually pretty big. I would divide and wrap them individually next time...lest mess!
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Thanks for making me laugh out loud. You rock. You cheating on me with her is like my husband cheating on me with Scarlett Johansen (or me on him with Ryan Reynolds and hey, they are single again). I can't blame you.
I was wanting to try these too. I've never used brown rice syrup and don't actually have any...
Yes, mostly, that whole pastry flour = whole white wheat flour. I do think that pastry flour tends to be more finely ground that typical white whole wheat flour, but you wouldn't need the fine grind in an application like this. A cake maybe, but not granola bars with so many other ingredients that impact the texture.
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