Soft Apricot Cashew Granola Bars

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Author: Delphine Fortin
Prep Time: 15 mins
Freezing Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 45 minutes
Yield: 14 servings 1x
Category: Snacks
Cuisine: Healthy
Diet: Vegan

You’ll love everything about these soft apricot cashew granola bars! Quick and easy to make, they’re loaded with nutritious ingredients, super soft and chewy, and slightly addictive too.

Ingredients

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1 cup (250g) cashew butter*
½ cup (175g) honey
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups (180g) old-fashioned rolled oats**
1 cup (150g) dried apricots, chopped***
½ cup (75g) cashew halves (or chopped cashews)****

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Instructions

Stir the cashew butter, honey and vanilla in a large mixing bowl until smooth and creamy.
Pour the oats, chopped apricots and cashew halves and stir until combined. If the mixture is a little bit too dry, consider adding a few Tablespoons of hot water, one at a time. If too wet, adjust the quantity of oats.
Press the bar mixture into a 10×8 inch (26×20 cm) or a 9×9 inch (23×23 cm) pan lined with parchment paper. Freeze for 30 minutes.
Pull out of the pan and cut into bars. Place bars (individually wrapped with parchment paper) in a large ziploc bag next to each other, and store in the refrigerator for 7 days or in the freezer for up to a month.

Notes

* Instead of cashew butter, you can use smooth (or crunchy!) peanut butter.

** I do not recommend quick oats for this recipe, as they will make the mixture mushy. Old-fashioned rolled oats however bring some interesting texture to the bars.

*** Other dried fruits would work too (cranberries, raisins, pitted and chopped dates, dried figs…). You can also replace the fruits with mini chocolate chips!

**** I like the idea of using cashew halves rather than chopped cashews, as they tend to be more flat in the bars. If you use peanut butter, you can replace cashews with peanut halves.