Oat Nut Breakfast Bar

For a take-along breakfast, a hiking snack or an after school snack.

1/2 cup melted butter
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 cup chopped cashews or macadamia nuts
1/2 cup honey
2 egg whites
1 cup chunky peanut or almond butter
1 cup rolled oats (If you use the slow cooking kind, grind at least half of them in a coffee grinder.)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Spices as you like: cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom


Sifted powdered sugar - approx 1/2 cup. Add 1 tablespoon cocoa powder to sugar if you like. Mix well.

For best results, chop the cranberries into bits and make sure that the cashew pieces are quite small, too. Mix all of the ingredients together except the powdered sugar/cocoa mix.

Shape dough into 2 x 2 x 1/2 inch squares on baking stone or cookie sheet with parchment paper. This recipe should make approximately 20 squares.

Bake for 20 minutes at 325 degrees. Let cool slightly. Freeze in order to make the bars more transportable. A handy method is to put two or three in a small Ziplock bag.

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