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Candied Apple Cinnamon Granola Bar Recipe [E]
 
 
These sugar free granola bars taste like a cinnamon candied apple! Little bits of dried apple mingle with candied cinnamon infused oats, and they're topped off with a crisp cinnamon glaze. They're slow carb (whole grain) that fit well with the Trim Healthy Mama plan [E], and are sugar free, and can be made DF and GF as well.
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup natural applesauce (no sugar added)
  • ½ cup erythritol or Trim Healthy Mama Gentle Sweet, or similar erythritol based sweetener of choice
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 10 slices dried apples (13 grams), cut into bits
  • 1 drop cinnamon candy flavor oil (candy aisle) or 1-3 drops of cinnamon oil
  • 1½ cups old fashioned oats
  • ½ to 1 teaspoon powdered cinnamon, optionalGlaze (optional)
  • 2 Tablespoons 0% plain Greek yogurt
  • 3 Tablespoons THM Gentle Sweet or erythritol or erythritol based sweetener of your choice
  • 1 teaspoon juice from can of beets, optional for natural color or ½ drop of red food coloring
  • 1 toothpick dip/swirl of cinnamon oil or 1 drop good quality cinnamon oil
  • 1 squirt apple flavored stevia drops, or toothpick dipped in candy apple oil flavoring
Instructions
  1. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit down into your bread pan, leaving the ends hanging out to help you remove your bars and to make clean up easier.
  2. Place applesauce, ½ cup erythritol (or sweetener), & olive oil to a small saucepan, and melt over medium low heat. Once melted and bubbly, stir for 1 minute, timed.
  3. Remove from heat. Stir in oats, apples, and drop of flavoring oil. If you've never used the intense candy flavoring oils, start with just a toothpick dipped in the bottle and swirl that in your mix then stir and test out the flavor intensity until you get it just right.
  4. Immediately press warm mixture into bread pan, and slice into 8 bars. Cut one line down the middle, then divide each side in half, creating 4 sections. Finally cut each section in half to get 8 bars.
  5. Allow bars to cool *completely*, then remove from pan and break apart. Glaze (optional)
  6. In a small saucepan, melt sweetener on medium low heat, and quickly whisk in remaining ingredients. Stir for 30 seconds. Remove from heat, and drizzle over the granola bars. I like to use a plastic squirt bottle.
  7. Once bars are dry and cooled, store in an airtight container at room temperature.
Notes
By my calculations, each bar contains around 9.5 net grams of carbs, and 1.5 grams of fat. These bars are a great healthy source of slow carbs if your body does will with whole grain oats. I like to pair them with a quality low fat protein for a balanced Trim Healthy Mama style E breakfast.

Dairy Free- Omit glaze
Gluten Free- Use Gluten Free oats
Recipe by Gwen's Nest at https://gwens-nest.com/candied-apple-cinnamon-granola-bar-recipe/