Accientally Awesome Chocolate Granola

One thing that I am not is a planner!  I sometimes really struggle with traditional foods because it is all about planning.  I have on many occasions been browning ground beef while desperately Googling for some way to use it.  I also like to just spontaneously grab the kids and make something that I saw on one of the many traditional food blogs that I follow.  Today was one of those spontaneous days!

We were all having some quiet time after lunch so I decided to get online for a bit and I immediately saw the yummiest picture so I had to click on it.  The link took me to Coconut Recipes post for No Bake Coconut Chewy Bites.  I quickly looked at the ingredient list and I was pretty sure that I had everything so I went and got Zola and Ajay to help me.

We were melting and mixing and going down the list until we got to the last ingredient, 2 cups of shredded coconut.  I had Ajay go to the fridge and when I saw the sad little amount that was left I panicked.  We poured it into a measuring cup only to come up with a half of a cup.  My first thought was to add oats but the only thing I had in the pantry was steel cut oats.  That would be great if we were looking to knock a few loose teeth out.  A quick look around the kitchen my eyes caught the canister of soaked granola that we made the other day.  So I figured why not, I will try anything before having to dump out the expensive ingredients in my pot.  So we stirred in 1 1/2 cups of granola, let it cool, and man did we enjoy!  We wound up with a crunchy chewy, salty, sweet, chocolatey treat.  I may go back and try the actual recipe as it was meant to be made sometime, but for now I am quite content with our accidental version.

The kids agreed that it was pretty fabulous...really they did.  I asked them to smile but Zola said she didn't want to take a break from eating the snack to smile.