Monday, January 31, 2011

Muffin Tin Monday and Recipe

Today's theme for Muffin Tin Monday is FAVORITES!  My boys have favorites, but they are not what I am wanting to feed them these days......poptarts, Fruit Loops, Apple Jacks, etc.  Basically store bought JUNK!  Another favorite is granola bars. They love those Quaker Oats chewy granola bars!! We have gone two weeks without them, but they have been begging for granola bars.

I got out an old recipe, made some adjustments and just went ahead and made up a batch. Super easy recipe!! All the guys loved them!   

So for breakfast this is what the boys had.  And I am throwing in the recipe for the granola bars if you are interested.  Happy Monday!


Granola bars, vanilla yogurt w/mini chocolate chips and sprinkles, apples, pineapples, water and strawberry milk!

Easy Granola Bars 

Ingredients:
3 cups quick-cooking oats                          1 cup sliced almonds
1 (14 oz) can sweetened                            1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
condensed milk                                          1/2 cup dried cranberries
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup flaked coconut

Preheat oven to 300.  Grease 9x13 pan.
In a large bowl, mix all ingredients with hands or rubber spatula until well blended.  Press flat into the prepared pan.  Bake for 25 minutes, depending on how crunchy you want them.  Lightly brown just around the edges will you give moist chewy bars.  Let cool 15 minutes and cut into desired size of bar.
Told you they were easy!

Muffin Tin Monday at Her Cup Overfloweth

5 comments:

Allison said...

Mmmmm great muffin tin breakfast! And thanks for sharing the recipe.

Anonymous said...

What a great breakfast. The granola bars look super. We love strawberry milk around here too.

Anonymous said...

The recipe looks great! I love your tin!

Jennifer said...

Ok, my last try at granola was yummy, but the kids turned up their noses. I'm going to try these out now :o) Great tin btw!

Ludicrous Mama said...

Thanks for the recipe! I have most of that stuff on-hand even! (My cranberries are orange-flavored though... Hmm... maybe dried blueberries?)
And yeah, I couldn't JUST use her favorite foods either. It would have looked like a Muffin Tin Trick-or-Treat bag!