Recipe: MiddView Granola Bar

Developed by a college outside program, this shall be the finest bar you’ll ever spend.

It would also merely not compile the most desirable title, but the MiddView granola bar has heaps of qualities to diagram up for it.

This staple of Middlebury School outside life earned its title from the first-year orientation bolt back and forth program, MiddView. Every September, bigger than 300 new college students and seventy five student leaders head into the backcountry armed with this tasty treat.

Truly, it’s so tasty that it has a mode of creating first-time backpackers overlook about their blisters. So tasty that even after discovering it had been squished by the gas bottle in the bottom of my pack, I ate every final crumb.

I salvage requested in most cases about these granola bars, and I remind those that they’re merely for the particular event of introducing new college students to the Vermont barren map. If they compile been accessible all year, they wouldn’t be this kind of delicacy.

Add this granola bar to your pre-bolt back and forth to make list, and I promise you obtained’t be upset. Appropriate assign it for a certain event.

MiddView Granola Bars

Yields 30 bars.

· 1 ½ cups rolled oats

· 2 ¼ cups crispy rice cereal

· 1/8 cup all-cause flour

· 1/Three cup pumpkin seeds

· 1/Three cup sesame seeds

· 1/Three cup flax seeds

· 1/Three cup sunflower seeds

· ¾ cup dried sweetened cranberries

· 1 tsp. salt

· 1 Tbsp. cinnamon

· 1 Tbsp. vanilla

· ¾ cup canola oil

· 1 1/8 cup honey

· 1/Three cup sunflower seed butter

1. Preheat oven to 300°F. Feature oats and seeds on a baking sheet and toast for Quarter-hour, mixing midway through.

2. In an infinite bowl, combine the crispy rice cereal, flour, cranberries, salt, and cinnamon. Add the toasted oat combination and poke.

Three. In a puny saucepan on low heat, bring the honey and oil to a boil. Simmer for five to 10 minutes, stirring in most cases. Recall some distance from heat and add vanilla and sunflower seed butter.

Four. Rush wet substances into dry substances.

5. Line a baking sheet with buttered parchment paper. Spread combination on the pan and press firmly with a rolling pin to compose an even layer.

6. Bake at 300°F for 25 minutes except golden brown and a puny subtle.

7. Allow to chill and firm up. Reduce into squares, wrap in plastic, throw on your pack, and revel in!

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Originally posted 2018-02-21 23:07:52.