Notes: For a stronger maple flavor, increase the maple extract by an additional ½ teaspoon. (It provides at least half of the maple flavor, so I don’t recommend substituting anything for it!
This is the kind I used.)
Honey or
agave may be substituted for the maple syrup… But then your granola won’t have a very strong maple flavor!
Regular crisp rice cereal (i.e. Rice Krispies) may be substituted in place of the brown rice cereal.
These are the pre-chopped pecans I used! Remember, do NOT add the pecans to your granola before baking… They’ll end up burning in the oven!
You do NOT end up with bits of egg in your granola! It’s just like when you put eggs in cookie dough. You don’t end up with chunks of scrambled cooked eggs in your
chocolate chip cookies, right? Same thing here! You thoroughly mix together the ingredients so you’ll never see bits of cooked egg in your granola. I promise!
The brown rice cereal adds a big crunch to your granola clusters without any extra oil or butter. It’s such a great trick, and I use it in all of
my granola recipes! (If you check the ingredients in your favorite store-bought granola cereals, I bet some of them use rice cereal as well!)
{gluten-free, clean eating, low fat}