Sweet and crunchy homemade cinnamon granola with a hint of pumpkin. Easy to make, plus better tasting and more affordable than store-bought granola!
Prep Time: 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time: 1 hourhour
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Total Time: 1 hourhour5 minutesminutes
Servings:16servings
Ingredients
3cupsrolled oats
1cupchopped nuts, (almonds, walnuts, and pecans all work well in this recipe too)
½cupcoconut flakes
½teaspoonsalt
1 ½teaspoonscinnamon
1teaspoonpumpkin pie spice
½cuphoney
¼cupbrown sugar
⅓cupoil
2teaspoonvanilla extract
3tablespoonspumpkin pie puree
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 and lightly grease a large baking sheet. (Preferable one with a raised edge)
In a large bowl combine oats, nuts, coconut, salt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice. In another bowl whisk together honey, brown sugar, oil, vanilla, and pumpkin.
Pour the wet mixture mixture over the oats mixture and stir to coat well. Spread the mixture onto the baking sheet in an even layer and bake 15 minutes, stir, and continue to bake in 10-15 minutes intervals, stirring well between each, until the granola is uniformly golden and no longer moist (for me this was a little over an hour but it will depend on your oven).
Allow to cool completely (the granola will crisp a little more as it cools.) Store completely cooled granola in airtight containers for 1-2 weeks.
Notes
*for a nut-free version, you can replace the nuts with twice as many oats, OR I love using Fiber one original cereal too!