Recipe - Cocoachocolate Granola

10 cup Rolled oats
One half cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Honey
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Now that I've been trying to fall back on the wagon again I recently took a
look in the fatfree archives for the cocoa/chocolate granola recipe I'd
posted here some years ago. I found my apricot granola one but not the
chocolate, so I tried what I *thought* I'd probably done before, it worked
out fine, and I'm posting it here.

If, like me, you have big cravings for something sweet, chocolate and
crunchy, I think you'll find this simple recipe very worth making, because
when you're crunching it up in your mouth it's like eating a chocolate
cookie.

The amount of salt is just on the edge of noticeable, and I think it adds
to the effect by suggesting the kind of slightlysalty taste you get from
having buttered a baking pan (or the kind of taste you get with
chocolatecovered peanuts). So if you either shouldn't have or don't care
for salt, you will probably want to use less.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees:

Dump oats, cocoa and salt into a big bowl, and mix until the oats are
evenly coated. Add honey and vanilla and work this mixture with your
*hands* until it's all evenly mixed/ coated.

Spread it all out on a large cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes, taking
it out every five minutes to stir it around.

If you live in a humid climate like I do, you'll want to put it in an
airtight container shortly after taking it out of the oven, so it stays
very crunchy.

When I made this the other day I also put in One half tsp of coconut extract ...
almond extract would probably also be good. Posted to fatfree digest V97
#019 by "Tane' Tachyon" tachyon@cats.ucsc.edu on Mar 07, 1997