Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola

We love breakfast in our house. I know I have said that before, but really it is one of our favorite meals of the day. ;)

Since I have been such a slacker on posting, I feel I really owe it to you to share my family’s all time favorite granola. We call it Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola. It is really the meal the kids dream of waking up to each morning and I make it more than all the other granolas we love. My kids beg for it. I usually double the batch because we like it so much and because we are such a big family.

I am calling this an original recipe of mine, because I have made so made changes over the years that you wouldn’t even recognize it coming from the original recipe. I make it how we like it, and hopefully you will like it as much as we do.

 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola

1 cup Agave or Honey ( I like Xagave best)

½ cup Virgin Coconut Oil

¼ cup Peanut Butter

½ cup Cocoa Powder

Small Pinch of Salt

2 tsp Vanilla Extract

6 cups Old Fashioned Oats

1 cup Coconut

1 cup Almonds or other chopped nuts

 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Combine agave, coconut oil, peanut butter, cocoa and salt in a saucepan. Warm till ingredients are melted and mixed well, but not boiling. Remove from heat and add the vanilla. Combine oats, coconut, and nuts in a large bowl; Pour the chocolate mixture over top and mix well.

Pour ingredients into baking dish or dishes. I like my granola soft so I will pour mine into an 9x13” pan and a 8x8” pan. They are pretty thick layers. If you want yours crunchy consider putting yours on a cookie sheet in a thin layer. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool. We like it best when it is completely cool.

One Serving equals One Cup.