Apple Pie Greatnola

  I absolutely love to bake.  So periodically I will be posting some recipes on here to share with anyone who is interested. 

Today I want to share my own crafted Apple Pie Granola – which I have called greatnola.

Enjoy!!

Ingredients:

2 cups old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup oat bran 
2 Tbs. dark brown sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup honey
3 Tbs. flavorless oil, such as vegetable or canola
1 Tb. water
3/4 cup chopped dehydrated apples
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup raisons
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp allspice

What to do:

1. Preheat the oven to 275 degrees.
2. Mix the oats, oat bran, brown sugar, walnuts and salt together.
3. Mix the honey, water, oil, vanilla, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg together in a frying pan on very low heat.  Mix until the ingredients are warmed up slightly (about 5 minutes).
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix thoroughly.
5. Spray a pan with PAM or something similar.
6. Form the granola into small chunks with your fingers, working with one handful at a time, and place into the pan.
7. Bake for 20 minutes.
8. Add the raisons and apples to the granola mixture, mix and return to the oven for another 15 minutes.
9.  Turn the oven off and let the granola stay in for an hour or so (may take several hours) until it has thoroughly dried out. 
10. Once it is completely dry to the touch remove from oven and eat!

Mananda Bread

  My own crafted vegan Banana Bread Recipe. 

Enjoy! 

Ingredients:

½ cup granulated sugar

¼ cup brown sugar

 3 bananas, mashed

1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1 cup all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

½ ts salt

1 ½ tsp cinnamon

¼ ts nutmeg

¼ ts allspice

2 TBS ground flax seed

½ cup chopped walnuts

Directions:

Mash bananas into a mush. Mix in the white sugar, brown sugar, oil and vanilla. Set aside.

Mix the remaining ingredients together in a separate bowl.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry, mixing just until everything is moist. Do not over mix – some lumps are okay. Batter will be thick.

Pour batter into a bread pan that has been sprayed with a non-stick spray.

Bake in a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.

Cool for at least 10-15 minutes before removing from pan.

Eat and enjoy!