2Heeldrive - Walk it off Wimp!

10/15/08

• 1 Cup Corn Syrup
• ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
• 6 Marshmallows (torn in half so they melt faster)
• 1 ½ Cup Peanut Butter (or Almond Butter)
• 1 TBS Canola Oil
• 6 Cup Slow cooking oats (Old Fashioned Oats)
• ½ bag or more of chocolate chips

Nutrition Information with Peanut Butter, Based on 20 servings for the recipe.

• Calories - 436
• Sugars - 24g
• Carb - 70g
• Sodium - 11mg
• Chol - 0
• Fat - 15g
• Protein - 13g
• Fiber - 7g

Combine corn syrup and sugar in saucepan on stove. Heat until boiling, add the marshmallows and remove from the hot burner (Don’t overcook).
Stir until the marshmallows are just melted. Add peanut (or almond) butter and return to the warm burner. Add oil and stir until mixed. (The mixture needs to be almost too hot to handle so that it will partially melt the chocolate chips which are added later.)

Add this mixture to a large bowl with the oats in it. Stir until you can mix by hand. Having some oil or Crisco on your hands will help keep the mix from sticking to your fingers. Divide mixture in half and break off pieces and press a Layer into the bottom of a greased, 9”x13” casserole dish. You can also use a silicon pie mat and roll out the mixture into a top and bottom layer.

Sprinkle the chocolate chips over this. Break off pieces of the remainder of the mix (or roll out the top layer) to cover the chocolate chips with another layer. Press to mash everything together. If the chocolate isn’t melting then you can put this in the oven or microwave to heat the ingredients, then press the layers together again.

Use a spatula to carefully pry loose an edge of the granola. Turn casserole dish upside down and the mix should slowly release the rest of the way. If you wait too long then the mix gets too cool and won’t release. Let cool for at least an hour.

Cut into bars and wrap with plastic wrap. (I divide the 13″ side into 4 pieces and each 9″ tall piece into 5 bars for a total of 20 bars.) If you’re not going to eat them right away then freeze the bars.

Hint: Nestle chocolate chips take longer to firm up than Ghiradelli chips. Some kinds of Ghiradelli chips seem to have too much wax and are too hard.