Granola Bars

Granola Bars

3 cups of quick cooking oats

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

2 tbsp of melted butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp cinnamon (or less if you aren't a fan of cinnamon)

1/2-1 cup of add-ins. You can use chocolate chips, nuts, dried fruit, whatever you want. We like chocolate chips and nuts or dried cranberries and white chocolate chips.

Stir all together and pour into a greased 9x13 pan. Bake at 350deg F for about 20min. Less time gives you a more chewy bar, more time gives you a crispier bar.

Remove from oven and cool. Cut into bars .

We use parchment paper in ours to keep it from sticking and to keep mess to a minimum. Also, once it cools its easy to grab the paper and pull it out of the pan and cut it.

You can use other extracts in place of the vanilla.

You can leave out the cinnamon if you'd like. Or, if you love cinnamon then add more! Its all up to you.

Some great combos:

almond extract, dried cranberries and almond slivers

vanilla extract, cinnamon, chocolate chips, walnuts

rum extract, sweetened shredded coconut, diced dried pineapple, dried cherries

vanilla extract, cinnamon, a tbsp of peanut butter (or other nut/seed butter), and chopped banana chips

vanilla extract, apple pie spice, dried apples

These are easy and delicious.