{"id":370,"date":"2023-05-01T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/?p=370"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:41:58","slug":"almost-granola-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/almost-granola-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Granola Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the kitchen of Stephanie Knewasser<\/h4>\n\n\n<p>In a large bowl, combine:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>2 c QUICK COOKING oats (not rolled oats)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>1 1\/4 c Rice Krispy cereal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>In a small pot melt:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1\/4 cup butter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1\/4 cup honey<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1\/4 cup packed brown sugar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1\/4 c peanut butter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stir on low until it begins to simmer. Simmer for 1 minute.<\/p>\n<p>Remove from heat.<\/p>\n<p>Add:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>1 tsp vanilla<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stir everything together until well coated.<\/p>\n<p>Coat a 13&#215;9 pan with cooking spray.<\/p>\n<p>Pack mixture into pan. Press down firmly or it will fall apart.<\/p>\n<p>Refrigerate 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Melt\u00a0<em><strong>7 ounces chocolate bark<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(I use the microwave).<\/p>\n<p>Spread over almost granola.<\/p>\n<p>Refrigerate until chocolate layer is set.<\/p>\n<p>Cut into 12-14 bars. Keep refrigerated.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var( --nutmeg-background-color ); color: var( --nutmeg-primary-text-color ); font-family: var( --nutmeg-ff-primary );\">May store at room temp, but refrigerate in warm weather. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: revert; background-color: var( --nutmeg-background-color ); color: var( --nutmeg-primary-text-color ); font-family: var( --nutmeg-ff-primary );\">They freeze well.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Knewasser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[70,106,69,41],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appetizer","category-fingerfoods","tag-granola-bar","tag-recipe","tag-snack","tag-stephanie-knewasser","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyrecipesandmore.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}