These healthy wholegrain breakfast bars are delicious and will keep you satisfied and energised throughout the morning. Instead of using dried mixed fruit, feel free to substitute any of your favourite dried fruits. Same for the nuts and cereal.
Preheat oven to 160 degrees C. Line a 23cm square baking dish with baking paper.
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In a large bowl, stir together the oats, flour, cereal and cinnamon. Add the egg, apple sauce, honey, sugar and oil. Mix well. Stir in the sunflower seeds, walnuts and dried fruit. Spread mixture evenly in the prepared baking dish.
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Bake 30 minutes, or until firm and lightly browned around the edges. Let cool. Use the baking paper to lift from the dish. Cut into squares and refrigerate until required.
Made it healthier.
Wonderful! I made a batch with exactly what you had for my hubby and I made a lower carb version for myself. They both turned out awesome! FYI...lower carb I omited the fruit and flour. I added two scoops of low-carb protein powder and 2 T peanut butter. They were great. I'm going to experiment with this base recipe using bananas, blueberries, dried cranberries....wow the options are endless. Thanks so much!!! A++++++
Used different ingredients.
I love this recipe! I've made this recipe a dozen times, using different dried fruit, omitting the nuts and adding chocolate whey-more protein (I'm a sports-nut). It never fails, never is dry and using chocolate covered raisins make them a bit sinful but always delicious!
Altered ingredient amounts.
Way good! I doubled the applesauce and bars really had a great texture. Used sesame seeds, almonds, linseeds, sunflower seeds, raisins. Would be great with any seed/nut/dried fruit combination.
Keeeeeeeeeper!! Love it. Very chewy and not too sweet. I used chopped dates, which were somewhat sweet and dried cranberries. I could taste the cinnamon, very good. I'm actualy about to make them again right now. They work well as snack for school. I will try some changes like sesame seed or poppy seed, prunes or figs and peanuts. The one thing I changed was the amount of apple sauce. I increased it to 3/4 cup. It was easy to spread. Thank you.