Highwood Crossing’s Sweet and Salty Granola Bars
We’re off to the west coast this morning, to Vancouver Island – Victoria first, for the Victoria Taste Wine & Food Festival, and then across to Tofino. Being a planner ahead when it comes to road trips – particularly in the arena of food – I made up a batch of chewy granola bars to pack along. This will almost certainly cut down on the number of buttered bagels I pick up at drive-thrus on the way.
Tony & Penny at Highwood Crossing have a great recipe – I hadn’t made granola bars with sweetened condensed milk before – and of course you can add anything, nuts, seeds and dried fruit-wise – even chocolate chips. (Which no, doesn’t count as a fruit.)
Sweet and Salty Granola Bars
AuthorJuliePreheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9"x13" pan with foil or parchment paper, overlapping the sides for easy removal of bars.
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Press evenly into the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden.
Cool slightly, then flip out onto a cutting board and cut into bars.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9"x13" pan with foil or parchment paper, overlapping the sides for easy removal of bars.
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Press evenly into the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden.
Cool slightly, then flip out onto a cutting board and cut into bars.
These sound d.i.v.i.n.e! I just don’t want to turn the oven on!
I’m filing this for back-to-school time. The sweetened condensed milk sounds ideal for keeping the bars chewy. I’m going to try using low-fat sweetened condensed milk to cut the richness a bit.
Ooh these would make perfect road trip/school lunch snacks. Thanks for sharing & have a fantastic trip!
Those are pretty bars.
Bon voyage!
What?! Chocolate chips don’t count as fruit?
Just turned the oven on…..and getting the ingredients ready.
Would coconut milk work? Since I have a can of it in the cupboard…
I pack granola bars for road trips too, and these look especially delicious with the condensed milk. Have fun on the West coast!
Those look like excellent granola bars. Keep those great recipes coming, Julie. Pancakes and muffins and crumble, oh my!
TKU! Cheers!!
SHOCKING. My mom always taught me chocolate was a fruit. And mom was always right… 🙂
Have fun on the trip.
Intrigued by the idea of adding sweetened condensed milk. Sounds worth a try. Enjoy your get away!
Safe travels, Julie. Please bring summer with you.
Baking these delicious bars now, but of course I had to add a little sin in there…Reeses pieces!lol
Made these for our camping trip last weekend – they were a hit! I also added a bit of peanut butter in the mix. yum!
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These are great! Left out nuts to make it school-safe, and dried fruit, but added coconut and used pumpkin and sunflower seeds…might drizzle with chocolate if I am feeling kindly towards my children after school. Thanks for the recipe!
This is addicting. I’ve been looking for a recipe that doesn’t use honey and maple syrup since it’ cost prohibitive and you can’t really taste it. Thank you for the tasty recipe. Easy and delicious.
It’s true – I always wish you could taste the maple syrup element more! I like using Roger’s Golden Syrup for things like this.