Maple Spice Granola Base
This granola is lightly-sweetened with maple and brown sugar. Season it with your favorite spice combination and add your favorite dried fruits, seeds, or nuts to make a truly delicious portable snack, or use it in place of raw oatmeal for softer cookies or breakfast bars.
Servings Prep Time
3cups 35minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
24minutes 20minutes
Servings Prep Time
3cups 35minutes
Cook Time Passive Time
24minutes 20minutes
Ingredients
The Base
The Spices (Version 1: mild, traditional)
The Spices (Version 2: fruity spice)
The Spices (Version 3: vanilla spice)
The Liquids
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 300°F.
  2. Place the oatmeal, brown sugar, salt, and dry spices of your choice in an un-greased 9 x 13 ceramic or Pyrex baking dish. Gently mix the dry ingredients together.
  3. Drizzle the liquids over the oatmeal mixture. If you begin with the oil, the maple syrup will slide easily from the measuring cup (2 Tbsp is half of a 1/4 cup measure.) Add the vanilla now, if you are making the vanilla spice version.
  4. Gently stir the ingredients until well mixed; then spread the mixture out again evenly in the dish.
  5. Place the dish in the middle of the oven for 8 minutes. Open the oven and stir. Return to the oven for 8 more minutes, stir, and bake for a final 8 minutes. The granola should be lightly golden now.
  6. Stir once more and allow to cool. Once the granola base is cool, add your favorite nuts and/or dried fruit to make a more robust snack or use in oatmeal cookie, granola bar, or breakfast bar recipes.
Recipe Notes

My recipes avoid all ingredients listed on the American Latex Allergy Association website as known for cross-reacting with latex as well as a few other ingredients that I have discovered elsewhere. However, latex-fruit syndrome is still an emerging issue and poorly understood. There may be other foods that cross-react, and people with latex-fruit syndrome often have other food allergies independent of their latex allergy. Each individual is different, so be sure to discuss with your allergist the safest way for you to try out ingredients that are new to you before you cook with them.