Crunchy Pumpkin Spice Granola – Sally’s Baking Dependancy

That is tremendous crunchy, cluster-filled pumpkin spice granola, a seasonal favourite crammed with fall goodies together with pecans, dried cranberries, maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice, and pumpkin seeds (pepitas). Including egg whites to the moist elements helps promise tremendous crunchy clusters. The granola is flippantly sweetened and wholesome, plus it’s gluten free if utilizing licensed GF oats.

In between all of the pumpkin cookies and pumpkin pie throughout the fall season, it’s splendidly refreshing to have a pumpkin spiced-treat that’s on the more healthy aspect. I make this pumpkin spice granola on a regular basis, swapping in new add-ins and goodies typically. You’ll respect that the recipe is tremendous customizable, so in the event you don’t like nuts or cranberries, for instance, you may simply substitute.

Right here’s Why You’ll Love This Pumpkin Spice Granola:

• Fast & straightforward to make.
• Good-for-you healthful elements.
• Crunchy! Sure, this granola is crunchy AND stays crunchy.
• Texture-packed and prepared on your favourite add-ins.
• Massive clusters, aka the perfect a part of granola.
• Scrumptious with home made pumpkin pie spice.
• Flippantly sweetened with maple syrup and a contact of brown sugar.

This recipe has lived on my web site since 2013 and it’s persistently a comfortable Autumnal favourite. It’s by far the crunchiest, most flavorful pumpkin granola I’ve tried and I examined many variations to determine the perfect ratio of elements.

Key Elements To Use & Why

• Oats: Old style complete rolled oats are key on this recipe, making up the majority of the dry elements. I don’t suggest fast or prompt oats right here—you want complete.
• Egg Whites: Egg whites work as a binder on this recipe, holding the massive granola clusters collectively earlier than, throughout, and after baking. You want 2 giant egg whites and in the event you’re utilizing carton egg whites from the shop, about 4 Tablespoons is a lot. Don’t omit the egg whites.
• Pumpkin: Canned pumpkin puree is good right here. You received’t use all the can, only one/2 cup, so take a look at all of those recipes that use leftover pumpkin to get by means of the remainder of your can.
• Coconut Oil: Don’t depart this out! The fats retains granola from turning right into a mushy mess and provides crunch and richness to each cluster. You should use vegetable oil or melted butter as a substitute if wanted.
• Maple Syrup: Pure maple syrup provides taste and sweetness and also you’ll respect that a lot of the sugar on this recipe is unrefined. Use honey or brown rice syrup as a substitute if desired.
• Brown Sugar: I examined this granola with out the brown sugar and sadly, it wasn’t very tasty—utterly bland pumpkin. There’s solely 3 Tablespoons of brown sugar complete, which isn’t a lot divided over about 5+ cups of granola. The brown sugar will flippantly caramelize over the oats. Should you choose, you should utilize coconut sugar as a substitute.

Not a fan of pumpkin? You would possibly get pleasure from this maple almond cranberry granola as a substitute.

Add-Ins & Extras

The beauty of this recipe, and lots of of my different granola recipes, is which you could combine and match your add-ins primarily based on what you want and/or what you’ve got readily available.

Listed below are some urged substitutes and add-ins:

• Should you don’t like unsweetened coconut, merely depart it out.
• Not a fan of dried cranberries? Use dried cherries, raisins, chopped dried apples, or depart them out utterly.
• Can’t discover pumpkin seeds, aka pepitas? Add extra pecans or skip them utterly.
• Add chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, or butterscotch chips to the granola because it cools.
• Add 2 Tablespoons of unsweetened pure or dutch-process cocoa powder with the moist elements for chocolate pumpkin granola.

Combine the dry elements collectively, together with the oats, spices, and a few add-ins. Individually, combine the moist elements collectively after which pour over the dry elements:

Notice: Add the dried cranberries AFTER baking; in any other case they may burn.

Success Tip: Don’t Crowd the Baking Sheet

Earlier than baking, the pumpkin granola combination could be very moist. To ensure that it to bake correctly and turn into crunchy, you need to give the granola some respiration room on the lined baking sheet. My #1 piece of recommendation is to divide the granola combination between two lined baking sheets. Unfold it out into 1 even layer, with loads of room. This lets the oven’s warmth attain each single cluster.

Every chew of the granola tastes like flippantly sweetened spiced pumpkin with toasted pecans and chewy dried cranberries. There are such a lot of methods to get pleasure from this! Cereal-style with milk, spooned over yogurt or a smoothie bowl (like this pumpkin protein smoothie!), layered parfait-style with chopped apples and yogurt, or get pleasure from plain as a fast snack.

You might even use this because the crunchy topping on gentle, maple vanilla baked pears. Scrumptious!

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