muesli/cereal bars recipes?

ScorpioLady_2

Big apologies, as I'm sure this will have been covered before, but has anyone any recipes for breakfast type bars/or chewee bars.

Ideally I'm trying to make something, sort of low GI, that the children can put in their bags at school in case they get an attack of the munchies.

I've made some flapjacks. so I suppose I'm looking along those lines.

Many thanks in anticipation.

pipkin71

I would love a recipe too. I make flapjacks but also spend a fair bit on packaged kids cereal bars [av £3.60 p/w], which I know would not be as healthy as what I could make, but the girls don't always want flappies.

pipkin xxx

odds-n-sods

I found this one on here:

Low Fat Cereal Bars

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup Rice Krispies
2/3 cup chopped apricots
3 tbsp roasted sunflower seeds (I don't bother toasting them)
1/4 cup toasted coconut (I don't toast it)
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp oil
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp peanut butter
1 tbsp vanilla extract


1. Melt oil, honey, peanut butter in microwave just until easy to mix up, watch carefuly, probably 20 seconds or so.

2. Mix in vanilla.

3. Mix all ingredients together and press down well into 8" square tin.

4. Bake at 350F/180C/gas4 for 20 minutes.

Trow

odds-n-sods, thats the one I would have suggested. I love it, its scrummy.

You could always add choc chips for the kids. It can be a bit crumbly, be warned!

pipkin71

odds-n-sods wrote: »

Low Fat Cereal Bars

1 cup rolled oats
1 cup Rice Krispies
2/3 cup chopped apricots
3 tbsp roasted sunflower seeds (I don't bother toasting them)
1/4 cup toasted coconut (I don't toast it)
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp oil
3 tbsp honey
2 tbsp peanut butter
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Right,

I would have to leave out coconut - girls don't like it, but it doesn't seem like a vital ingredient
Apricots for DD1 but ok for DD2 - unless I pureed them perhaps
Peanut butter as DD2 allergic
Not sure about sunflower seeds

Is there anything other than peanut butter I could use?

I'm sure I can adapt this to suit though.

odds-n-sods

what about this one??
Apple and oat slices (makes 16 bars)

2 tablespoons caster sugar
250g/9oz reduced fat monounsaturated spread (I use an olive-type spread)
2 tablespoons honey (I use runny)
450g/1lb cooking apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I also make this with a mix of eating apples, dried apricots, roughly chopped and 2 tablespoons of orange juice instead of the water)
175g/6oz plain wholemeal flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
200g/7oz rolled oats
50g/ 1 3/4oz chopped mixed nuts or chopped hazelnuts - whatever you have in.

Pre-heat oven to 180C/350F/GM 4. Place apples, sugar and 2 tablespoons water in a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer gently until pulpy (approx 15 mins).

Melt marg in another saucepan and stir in the honey. Remove from the heat and stir in flour, baking powder, oats and nuts. Press half of the oat mixture into the base of a lightly greased 7x11inch (18x27cm) shallow tin. Spoon over the apple mixture. Crumble the remaining oat mixture over the fruit and press down gently. Bake until evenly browned (approx 30-40 mins). Cool slightly in tin, cut, remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack. Store in the fridge. Not suitable for freezing.


Sorry was looking for more and got lost.

ScorpioLady_2

All my cereal bars chewy, floppy and a bit soggy. (Nice, but not quite right)

Just wondering if Bicarb was the missing ingredient to crisp them up a bit??

Gingernutmeg

I'm not sure it would be ... Do you mean you've been making oaty flapjack type bars and they're a bit chewy? Normally cereal bars are 'crisp' because they've got things like puffed rice in them, or are made with a caramel holding them together and aren't 'baked' as such - I'm thinking here like a Tracker bar. If you made them thinner and cooked them for a bit longer they'd probably go bit crisper too, but to get a crisp bar like the commercial ones you'd probably have to make an 'uncooked' bar (like the marshmallow crisp) with crispier ingredients like puffed rice in it.

ScorpioLady_2

I followed the (no bake) cereal bar recipe (on the indexed links) and they never quite went hard. Just wondered if I'd missed something.

Gingernutmeg

I'm not sure of that recipe, but if it's a marshmallow based one then they don't set hard, they're always a bit 'bendy' and chewy rather than crisp.