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Home » Recipes » Breakfast Recipes » Peanut Butter Granola with Chocolate Chunks

Last updated on June 4, 2021. Originally posted on April 18, 2015 By Maryea / 5 Comments

Peanut Butter Granola with Chocolate Chunks

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This Peanut Butter Granola with Chocolate Chunks is a peanut butter-chocolate lovers dream! It’s so much better than any store-bought granola you can buy and so easy to make!

This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Granola recipe is super crunchy and has big chunks! No refined sugar with intense peanut butter flavor. Great homemade granola recipe!Good morning! What a week.  Posting a recipe on Saturday morning isn’t the norm for me, but my blogging schedule (that I at least loosely try to stick to) was thrown all out of whack.  If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen that my blog was hacked early in the week.  If you didn’t see my post on there, I’m not surprised as Facebook likes to only show my posts to a handful of you.  But that’s another rant for another day.

Please accept my apology if you came to Happy Healthy Mama this week hoping for some good reading and ended up with a message that it was temporarily unavailable.  If you were frustrated, you can only imagine the level of frustration I was feeling. Some way, some how, some mean, mean hackers snuck their way in and added some malicious coding to my site.  I openly admit that I’m not even sure what that means, so when my hosting company contacted me and told me that my service was suspended until it I removed it, I went into panic mode.  I needed to find help, and fast, because the time was ticking and this was way above my I’m-an-English-major head.  If I tried to find and remove the code myself, I’d probably end up removing half my site.

It’s all resolved now, and I’ve added some additional security measures that will hopefully prevent it from happening again. I hope there are no more chapters to this story.

All right friends, I’ve rambled about that stressful craziness enough. Let’s get to the real reason you all stop by: FOOD!

You’ve all heard the expression “happy wife, happy life,” right?  Well I wholeheartedly believe it’s true.  I also believe the same goes for the other half of the marriage coin:  the husband.  I mean let’s face it.  Can a wife really be happy with a grumpy husband?  I don’t think so.  That’s where another expression comes into play: “the way to his heart is through his stomach.”

That’s how this recipe was born.  While this Lightened Up Granola or this Blueberry Pie Granola are wonderful and lovely and I think darn near perfect for a healthy granola option, the husband has a different definition of perfect.  Tim wants a granola with a little more sugar, a little more fat, and a little more….chocolate.  This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Granola recipe is super crunchy and has big chunks! No refined sugar with intense peanut butter flavor. Great homemade granola recipe!

This recipe was developed specifically for my husband.  Peanut butter+chocolate is his favorite combination and he loves a sweet, dessert-type granola to snack on.  It’s still a healthy granola recipe without refined sugar and all real food ingredients.  It’s just not quite as saintly as my other granola recipes.  But it makes Tim happy and guess what?  That makes me happy.

The kids also love this on our Banana Split Breakfast Bowls! It goes so well!

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This Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Granola recipe is super crunchy and has big chunks! No refined sugar with intense peanut butter flavor. Great homemade granola recipe!

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chunk Granola


  • Author: Healthy Happy Mama
  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 6 cups 1x
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Description

This Peanut-Butter Chocolate Chunk Granola is super crunchy with big chunks!  It’s easy to throw together with no chopping required.  


Ingredients

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3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats

1 cup peanuts

1 cup sunflower seeds

1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)

1/4 cup Sucunat or organic sugar

1 cup peanut butter (preferably natural without added sugar)

1/2 cup honey

2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted

6 ounces chocolate chunks


Instructions

Preheat your oven to 275 degrees.  In a large bowl, mix together the first 5 ingredients.  Add in the remaining ingredients, except the chocolate chunks, and mix until everything is well mixed.  Spread the mixture on two rimmed baking sheets and bake in the preheated oven about 45 minutes.  Half way through the baking time, use a spatula to carefully turn the granola over to ensure it bakes evenly and doesn’t burn on the bottom. If you like big chunks in your granola, be careful not to break it apart too much as you are turning it over.

Watch the granola at the end of the baking time; it goes from perfect to burned quickly.  Once it is finished baking, let it sit, undisturbed, for at least an hour, more if possible.  It gets crunchier as it cools and the big chunks form when you don’t touch it at all.  Add the chocolate chunks and transfer it to an airtight container and store it in the pantry.  Enjoy!

  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Category: Breakfast
  • Cuisine: American

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 0.5 cup
  • Calories: 454
  • Sugar: 19.6g
  • Sodium: 103.8mg
  • Fat: 32.6g
  • Carbohydrates: 36.8g
  • Protein: 8.6g

Keywords: peanut butter granola

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  1. Kathryn @ Mamacado says

    April 20, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    BOO to the hack…the world sure can be mean. But YAY that you got it fixed! How did you end up doing it!? Your story scares me.

    Reply
    • Maryea says

      April 21, 2015 at 8:56 am

      I had to pay an outside company (SiteLock) to go in and clean up all the malicious coding. They are now scanning daily and removing anything they find. I hate the technical side of blogging! :0

      Reply
      • Kathryn @ Mamacado says

        April 21, 2015 at 9:42 am

        Ugh, well, it’s good to know there is help if this happens. I agree about disliking the technical side of blogging. Just the TIME that it takes to do these technical things is crazy!

  2. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

    April 19, 2015 at 11:20 pm

    Thanks for giving me just another way to enjoy my favourite flavour combination of peanut butter and chocolate with this granola!

    Reply
    • Maryea says

      April 20, 2015 at 5:48 pm

      You are welcome!

      Reply

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