Are you looking for a healthy breakfast, dessert, or snack for you and the kids that everyone will love? This healthy homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola will be a fan favorite for the whole family! It’s made with oats, nuts, cocoa powder, peanut butter, organic coconut sugar, maple syrup, coconut oil, and dark chocolate.
The best Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola
Meet my newest excuse to start the day with chocolate. This healthy homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola is here for you, my dear friend. And boy, will you be thanking me for this recipe. If you are anything like me, I constantly have a sweet tooth. I am always looking for a piece of candy or dessert, and of how delicious they test, it always makes me feel sluggish after eating the junk.
With the new year right around the corner, my goal is to eat LESS JUNK! This beautiful recipe is helping me do just that.
In this post, I will be teaching you how to kick that sugar craving and go for something cleaner, filling, healthier, and more DELICIOUS!
This post is about how to make Healthy Homemade Crunchy Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola that will help you and the family stop reaching for the junk and start running for this!
Healthy Homemade Crunchy Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola Ingredients
The ingredients for this healthy homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola are straightforward. They are probably ingredients you have sitting in your house right now. Here is an overview of everything you are going to need…
- Rolled Oats
- Your favorite nuts
- Organic Coconut Sugar
- Organic Pure Maple Syrup
- Organic Chocolate Bar
- Organic Cocoa Powder
- Organic Coconut Oil
- Organic Peanut Butter
- Dried Fruit (Optional)
The tools you will need are a large mixing bowl, a baking sheet, a small saucepan, and parchment paper.
How is this healthy for you?!
You may be asking how is this homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola healthy for you?! There are many health benefits to the foods you are putting together for this recipe. Let me tell you about it.
- Whole Oats: Rich in antioxidants, high in fiber, lowers cholesterol levels, improves blood sugar control, and fills you up, helping you to manage or lose weight.
- Nuts: Loaded with antioxidants, lowers cholesterol & triglycerides, are beneficial for type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, reduce inflammation, high in fiber, and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke.
- Coconut Sugar is a more natural sweetener than regular sugar. Most sugars are processed sugar, whereas this is all-natural.
- Pure Maple Syrup: High in antioxidants and contains nutrients like riboflavin, zinc, magnesium, calcium, and potassium.
- Chocolate Bar: High in iron, fiber, magnesium, copper, manganese, and antioxidants, it improves blood flow & lower blood pressure, protects against high cholesterol, reduces heart disease risk, protects your skin from the sun, and improves brain function.
- Cocoa Powder: Rich in polyphenols, it reduces high blood pressure, low risk of heart attacks & stroke, and improves blood flow to the brain & brain function. Improves symptoms of type 2 diabetes, has cancer protective properties, and antibacterial & immune stimulating properties.
- Coconut Oil: Fights off bacteria, Builds and repairs muscle, and good heart health. It aids weight loss, helps prevent Alzheimer, and improves healthy hair and scalp. It treats sunburn, enhances liver and kidney health, is a natural way to reduce stress, and reduces aging.
- Peanut Butter: vitamin E, magnesium, iron, selenium, and vitamin B6. It is also full of fiber, helps keeps you satisfied, and helps with type 2 diabetes.
- Dried Fruit (Optional): High in fiber and antioxidants.
How to make Granola
Making this healthy homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola is very simple. From start to finish, you spend about 45 minutes of prep and baking.
To make granola first, start by pre-heating the oven to 325 F.
Mix the rolled oats, nuts of your choice (My favorites are cashews, walnuts, almonds, and some seed.), and dried fruit.
Mix the coconut sugar, maple syrup, cocoa powder, and peanut butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Let the ingredients cook for 3-5 minutes until the sugar is melted down and everything is blended.
Pour the sauce mixture over the dry mixture of rolled oats, nuts, and dried fruit. Mix the ingredients all together until the granola is well combined.
Pour the combined mixture onto a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Halfway into baking, toss around the mixture.
Once the granola mixture is fully baked, mash up the chocolate bar into little crumbles and sprinkle it on top of the granola mixture. Stir the granola mixture around until the chocolate is melted.
Let the granola cool for one hour, then break it apart and enjoy!
The granola can be stored in the pantry at room temperature for two weeks!
Materials you will need
This healthy homemade crunchy chocolate peanut butter granola is pretty simple and only requires a hand full of items.
Can Granola be stored in the freezer?
This is my favorite question to answer. I love storing everything in the freezer; YES, granola can be stored in the freezer. Double, triple, or quadruple the batch and store it in the freezer for up to 3 months!
What type of quick recipe is your favorite?
Do you have a simple, quick, and delicious recipe you use weekly? Let me know down below in the comments some of your favorite recipes!
