Chocolate-Cranberry Crunch
- Cooking spray
- 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup crispy wheat cereal squares
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
- Preheat oven to 300u0b0.
- Line a jelly-roll pan with parchment paper. Coat parchment with cooking spray.
- Combine oats and next 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Combine honey and canola oil in a small saucepan. Cook over low heat 2 minutes or until warm. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and chocolate, stirring with a whisk until smooth. Gently stir chocolate mixture into oat mixture.
- Spread chocolate mixture onto prepared pan. Bake at 300u0b0 for 28 minutes, stirring twice. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Stir in cranberries. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
- Young Chefs can:
- Pour measured oats, cereal, and nuts into bowl
- Measure dried cranberries
- Older Chefs can:
- Measure oats, cereal, brown sugar, and pecans
- Spread chocolate-oat mixture onto pan
cooking spray, oldfashioned, crispy wheat cereal squares, brown sugar, pecans, salt, ground cinnamon, honey, canola oil, vanilla, chocolate, cranberries
Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-cranberry-crunch (may not work)