Easy Healthy Granola Cups. Great for breakfast or dessert, simply add your favorite goodies like yogurt and berries and enjoy!
This delicious recipe has been generously shared by one of our great cooks, Carina.
Cari's Easy Healthy Granola Cups are simple, full of great ingredients, and easy to make. Of course, when you make your own granola, it's much better as it allows you to be flexible with the ingredients and add the things you like.
Served with some yogurt and fresh fruit as Carina does, this makes for a wonderful wholesome breakfast or dessert.
It's great for portion control too and kids will find it fun. Please enjoy Cari's Easy Healthy Granola Cups!
Recipe adapted by Carina Duclos from Women's Health Magazine
Yogurt filling recipe by Winnie Young
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Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
15 minutes
Yield
12
Ingredients
For the cups
4 Tbsp Coconut Oil or butter.
¼ Cup Honey
¼ Cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
2 tsp Cinnamon
¼ tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Old Fashioned Oats
⅓ Cup Shredded Coconut
¼ Cup Ground Flax Seed
¼ Cup Sliced Almonds
¼ Cup Dried Cranberries, chopped
For the Yogurt filling
2 tubs (5 oz each) non fat Greek Vanilla Yogurt
2 Tbsp soft cream cheese
Instructions
1. To a small saucepan, add the coconut oil, honey, cinnamon, and salt.
Heat until all ingredients are combined. Remove from heat and stir in the apple sauce and vanilla.
2. In a separate bowl mix together the oats, coconut, flax seed, almonds and cranberries.
3. Pour the liquid over the dry ingredients and stir until completely coated.
4. Place the mixture into the fridge for about 30 minutes to cool.
5. When ready to bake, place the mix in muffin cups. Suggestion to use paper muffin holders for easy removal. Using your fingers press into the center of the hole and then work your way around the edges to form a bowl. If the dough is sticky, wet your fingers with cold water, shake them out, and proceed.
6. Place the bowls into an oven preheated to 325 degrees. Cook about 15-20 minutes
Let cool completely before removing.
7. Store in an air tight container.
When ready to eat, fill with the yogurt of your choice. Top with fresh berries. Enjoy!
To make the yogurt filling
1. Whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the yogurt, combine well.
2. Drop a tbsp full of yogurt mix onto tartlets then top with your favorite berries.
And there you have Cari's Easy Healthy Granola Cups. Please enjoy!
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our post. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!
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Easy Healthy Granola Cups
Easy Healthy Granola Cups. Great for breakfast or dessert, simply add your favorite goodies like yogurt and berries and enjoy!
Ingredients
For the cups:
- 4 Tbsp Coconut Oil or butter
- ¼ Cup Honey
- ¼ Cup Unsweetened Apple Sauce
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cups Old Fashioned Oats
- ⅓ Cup Shredded Coconut
- ¼ Cup Ground Flax Seed
- ¼ Cup Sliced Almonds
- ¼ Cup Dried Cranberries, chopped
For the Yogurt filling:
- 2 oz tubs non fat Greek Vanilla Yogurt, 5 each
- 2 Tbsp soft cream cheese
Instructions
- To a small sauce pan, add the coconut oil, honey, cinnamon, and salt.
- Heat until all ingredients are combined. Remove from heat and stir in the apple sauce and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl mix together the oats, coconut, flax seed, almonds and cranberries.
- Pour the liquid over the dry ingredients and stir until completely coated.
- Place the mixture into the fridge for about 30 minutes to cool.
- When ready to bake, place the mix in muffin cups. Suggestion to use paper muffin holders for easy removal. Using your fingers press into the center of the hole and then work your way around the edges to form a bowl. If the dough is sticky, wet your fingers with cold water, shake them out, and proceed.
- Place the bowls into an oven preheated to 325 degrees. Cook about 15-20 minutes
- Let cool completely before removing.
- Store in an air tight container. When ready to eat, fill with the yogurt of your choice. Top with fresh berries. Enjoy!
To make the yogurt filling:
- Whip the cream cheese until smooth. Add the yogurt, combine well.
- Drop a tbsp full of yogurt mix onto tartlets then top with your favorite berries.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 184Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 5mgSodium: 73mgCarbohydrates: 22gFiber: 3gSugar: 11gProtein: 3g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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Charlie
says:Can I leave the coconut out?
My daughter is allergic.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Charlie, yes, of course you can leave out the coconut. However, please be aware the quantity of granola cups will be less, or you could replace with something else such as ground almonds or small seeds of your choice, or even some finely chopped dried fruit such as cranberries etc to bulk the mixture back up. Hope that helps!
Charlie
says:Thanks so much!
abby.k.schreader@gmail.com
says:Could you make these with store bought granola?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Abby, indeed! Go for it! and Happy New Year to you!
abby.k.schreader@gmail.com
says:Thank you for the quick response! Happy New Year to you as well!
Andrea
says:It doesn’t list honey in the ingredient list, but the instructions do. How much honey?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Andrea, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It is 1/4 cup of honey. I’ll edit the ingredients now so it is correct!! Much appreciated.
Karen
says:The ingredients list doesn’t mention a weight for the cranberries.
lovefoodies
says:Hi Karen, I’m so sorry! It should read 1/4 cup. I have amended the recipe so it is correct.
Thank you very much for letting me know!
Cathy Kopp
says:This sounds yummy! If I just wanted to turn this into granola clusters do you think the baking time would be the same?
lovefoodies
says:Hi Cathy, yes, of course. Carina also shared her own homemade granola recipe, if you’d like to take a look here https://lovefoodies.com/easy-home-made-maple-almond-granola.html