For three years while I was attending school at Utah State University, I worked for the cutest company called Cox Honeyland.
Day after day, I worked with delicious, golden honey. Bottling it, pouring it, and tasting it!
I fell in love with the sweet, rich taste of a spoonful of honey, and all the other by-products: honey popcorn, honey butter, honey sticks, honey comb, and my favorite – honey granola.
I knew it was going to be a good day when there was a bag of honey granola involved!
We love using this to top yogurt, smoothies, and fruit. It tastes incredible with applesauce too!
Looking for a healthy treat?! Try our Strawberry and Granola Bark!
Ingredients for Honey Granola
This granola can be adjusted to fit your family’s preference. Here’s what we mixed into ours:
- Oats
- Shredded Coconut
- Chopped Pecans
- Sesame Seeds
- Salt, Cinnamon, Vanilla
- Honey – Make this recipe your own and add your favorite honey. To cut out some sugar, use raw honey.
- Vegetable Oil – This is helps the granola cook together with a crunch! Coconut oil can be substituted in this recipe as well.
- Dried Apples – These go great with the cinnamon and honey in the recipe. If you don’t like dried apples, any other dried fruit would work!
We recommend using old fashioned oats in this recipe. Quick oats would work, but tend to burn faster in the oven due to their smaller size. Old fashioned work best!
Sweetened or unsweetened coconut works great. If you’d like to keep this granola on the healthy side, you’ll want to use unsweetened.
You can choose any nut you’d like! Chopped pecans is our favorite, but this would be great with chopped peanuts or sliced almonds.
Sesame seeds may not seem like your usual granola ingredient but trust us! It tastes delicious!
Delicious spices and flavorings bring this crunchy granola together when baked!
When you get to this point, you’ll want to prep your granola on two baking sheets. Don’t add your apples yet! They’ll be tossed in at the end. We have two baking sheets listed in the directions. This will make sure your granola evenly bakes.
Once baked, break up your granola with a fork or spoon. Some pieces may stick together and that’s okay, they will be crunchy and delicious! Add your apples, and you’re good to go!
Granola Recipes on Six Sisters’ Stuff
Here are a few more recipes for homemade granola!
Power-Packed Granola
Almond Butter Granola
Toasted Coconut Berry Granola
Honey Granola Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 cup uncooked oats, (quick or old fashioned)
- 1½ cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup pecans, finely chopped
- ½ cup sesame seeds
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup honey, (I only use 100% Pure Raw Honey from Cox's, but I may be biased 😉 )
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 8 ounces dried apples, cut up
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- Stir in honey, oil and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
- Divide into 2 equal parts and bake each part in a 15 x 10 inch cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes until golden brown stirring occasionally.
- Stir in ½ the apples into each part. Cool. Stir with a fork until crumbly.
- Store in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator. Makes 10 cups.
Nutrition
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You really can’t go wrong with homemade granola! This looks fabulous! 🙂
Do you have to spray the cookie sheet before you bake it?
Just spray it lightly.
Looks great. I love honey.
Have you calculated the nutritional count?
Just made this today, mine burned 🙁 I stirred it about every 5-7 min. and after 15 min. of cooking I pulled it out to stir again and quite a bit was burnt. It didn’t even bake a full 20 min. I followed the recipe exact so not sure what happened.
This is a very good ‘basic’ recipe which can be changed in any number of ways. I would, however, recommend *not* using quick cooking oats. The flakes are so small that they’ll burn more easily. I used Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Oatmeal.
I also found that to keep granola from burning, I had to cook it for 10 minutes, stir (used a flat bottom spatula to scoop up and turn the granola), cooked for 7 more minutes, stirred again, cooked 5 minutes and stirred and then a final 5 minutes. If I had gone longer in between, it would have burned.
This recipe sounds delicious to me; however, my daughter doesn’t like coconut. Is there a substitute I could use for the coconut??
Thank you!
denise
Is it possible to use coconut oil instead of vegetable oil instead?
We haven’t tried coconut oil so we aren’t sure how well it would work.
I just used coconut oil instead of vegetable oil, it seemed to work just fine, the granola is cooling right now, we’ll see if my wife and I like it (I added a pinch of brown sugar and bananas chips along with the apple chips, no sesame seeds).
My family has loved this recipe for years. My 4 year old granddaughter even asks for “grandma’s granola” with her yogurt. Now a family member has a health challenge, so I have a question. What is the portion size for the nutrition statistics? Thank you!
I went in and switched the serving size to 1/2 cup. You can see the new calculations with that. You could even have the serving size be less.