Cocoa Granola

October 12-13, 2014

With tea as well as toast as well as boxed supermarket cereal, I worked myself dorsum into a breakfast rut these terminal duad of months. I was only most railroad train to bake upward a batch of my favourite granola recipe when Heidi posted Orangette, as well as I've fifty-fifty sampled some out as well as about, but I was wary of extending my well-established chocolate habit to breakfast. But Heidi's recipe is dissimilar - it's got the deep roasted flavor of cocoa without the richness of cocoa butter, as well as offers the liberty to tinker alongside the sweetness equally needed. I appreciated Heidi's recipe notes - it's tempting to over-bake this mixture, but it crisps upward piece cooling as well as doesn't postulate to a greater extent than than 25 minutes inward the oven.

I intend this granola is at its best alongside berries as well as kokosnoot yoghurt, piece Heidi recommends teaming it alongside banana as well as milk. I mightiness accept another serving suggestions soon, equally I've found myself baking 2 farther double batches for friends (and for me too, sure) since the outset lawsuit I photographed above.

Cocoa granola
(slightly adapted from Apples Under My Bed)

three tablespoons kokosnoot oil
2 cups rolled oats
ane loving cup almonds, roughly chopped
1/3 loving cup sunflower seeds
generous milkshake of salt
three tablespoons cocoa
2 teaspoons dry reason coffee
three tablespoons maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla

Preheat an oven to 160°C. Line a large baking tray alongside paper.

Gently melt the kokosnoot crude oil inward a modest saucepan as well as laid it aside to cool a little.

In a medium-large bowl, stir together the rolled oats, almonds, sunflower seeds, salt, cocoa as well as coffee.

Whisk the maple syrup as well as vanilla into the kokosnoot oil. Pour the crude oil mixture into the dry out ingredients as well as stir to combine. Pour the granola onto the baking tray, spreading it out evenly. Bake the granola for 20-25 minutes, stirring it at the 10 infinitesimal mark. Be careful no to transportation away it.

Allow the granola to cool earlier storing it inward an airtight container. Serve it alongside yoghurt as well as fruit.