Whole Wheat Snickerdoodle Cranola
 
 
Makes about 4 cups
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup coconut oil, room temperature
  • ½ cup light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ½ cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2½ cups rolled oats
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, or in a bowl with a hand-held mixer, beat the coconut oil and brown sugar on high speed until smooth and creamy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat until well combined.
  3. Add the flours, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, baking soda and salt and mix until just combined. Then add the oats and stir with a wooden spoon. When the ingredients start to come together, use your hands to continue mixing until all the oats are covered with dough.
  4. Squeeze off chunks of dough and loosely break them apart over the baking sheet, creating large clumps.
  5. In a small bowl, combine the granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Sprinkle half of the mixture over the cranola clumps.
  6. Bake the cranola for 15 minutes, remove from the oven and stir gently. Sprinkle on remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture. Bake for an additional 10 minutes, remove from the oven and stir gently. Bake for an additional 5-10 minutes until clumps are dry.
  7. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and let the cranola cool completely. It will harden as it cools.
  8. Store cranola in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week, if it lasts that long.
Recipe by Two of a Kind at http://www.twoofakindcooks.com/whole-wheat-snickerdoodle-cranola/