Recipes and Serving Suggestions

Here are some of our favorite ways to make our treats healthier and more delicious. Please send us your ideas to share.

Easy Yankee Applesauce

Peel, core & chunk up as many apples* as you want (one apple yields about 2/3 cup sauce.) Place the apple chunks in a sauce pan, add about 1 cup water. Cook over med-high heat until the apples are mushy, usually 20-30 minutes. Sometimes they will break up when you stir them, but the mixture will be chunky. Add more water if needed. If desired, you can achieve a smoother sauce by pureeing in a food processor.

Remove applesauce from heat. Stir in a sweetener like brown sugar or honey (or a sugarfree alternative.) The amount of sweetener you use is your decision. Start with a 1/4 cup and work up from there. We don't like ours too sweet. Add a little cinnamon and nutmeg.

We like this served warm along side pork or ham. We then refridgerate the leftover sauce to be served cold with granola!

This sauce also freezes really well if you want to make a big batch. Just let the sauce cool, then divide into pint-sized freezer containers and put in freezer.

* use any variety you have on hand or mix a few varieties. However softer varieties like Cortlands cook up faster, while harder varieties, like Galas, seem to take forever.

Easy Trailmix

Feel free to be creative by adding varying amounts of any of the following to Amy's Granola:

  • Dried Fruit (buying a bag of mixed dried fruit makes this easy)
  • Raisins or dried currents
  • Chocolate, peanut butter or butterscotch chips
  • M&Ms
  • Peanuts or sunflower seeds
  • Cheerios
  • Pretzels

Mix your choice of ingredients together in a large bowl and store in an airtight container.

Granola Apple Crisp

Peel, core & slice 6-8 large apples*
2 tablespoons flour
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup warmed caramel sauce or melted butterscotch chips
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 - 2 cups Amy's Granola (with or without nuts)
Vanilla low-fat ice cream (optional)

Generously grease a shallow baking pan. Preheat oven to 375 F. Place apples in pan, sprinkle flour over apples. Cut butter/margarine into pieces, place on apples. Pour warm caramel or melted butterscotch chips over apples. Mix brown sugar and granola together; sprinkle mixture over apples. Bake 35 minutes uncovered. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream if desired.

*We recommend using Golden Delicious, Cameo, Ginger Gold, or Cortland apples.

Granola Tri-Berry Crisp

1/2 pint each (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, fresh or frozen)
2 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon sweetener (honey or brown sugar)
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups Amy's Maple & Honey Granola
Low-fat Vanilla Ice Cream

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine berries with flour and sweetener. Place in greased, shallow baking dish. Dot with butter or granola. Sprinkle granola over berry mixture. Bake for 30 minutes, covered. Uncover and bake another 10 minutes or until topping is golden brown. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream if desired.

Low-fat Berry Parfait

3/4-cup low-fat vanilla yogurt
1/2cup Amy's Maple & Honey Granola
1/2 fresh fruit (sliced peaches, blueberries, strawberries, etc.)
1 tablespoon orange juice (sprinkle over fruit)

In a tall decorative glass, layer all three using about � of each ingredient. Repeat layers. Serve immediately, garnished with a mint leaf.

Frozen Smores Squares

9 low-fat graham cracker squares
3 cups softened, heavenly hash ice cream*
1 cup Amy's Maple & Honey Granola

Place the graham crackers in the bottom of an 8x8x2 baking pan, lined with plastic wrap. Layer the softened ice cream over the graham crackers. Sprinkle the granola over the ice cream; pat gentle into place if needed. Cover with plastic wrap and place in freezer overnight or until hard. Remove from freezer and cut into 9 squares. Serve immediately or re-wrap and store in freezer.

*May substitute other flavor of ice cream if desired.

Baked Stuffed Apples

4 large apples*, cored
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
2 Tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
1 cup Amy's Maple & Honey Granola (with or without nuts)
3/4 cup warm caramel or chocolate sauce (optional)
Low-fat vanilla ice cream (optional)

Mix brown sugar, butter or margarine and granola together. Wash & carefully core each apple (but don't peel,) creating a hole in the middle of the apple. Pack � of the granola mixture into hole of each cored apple. Place filled apples upright in a slow cooker or crock pot.

Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours or on high 1 � -3 hours (depending on the strength of your slow cooker.) Carefully remove each apple from slow cooker and place on a serving plate. Drizzle each apple with a � of the caramel sauce. Serve warm with scoop of vanilla ice cream if desired.

*We suggest using a hard variety of apple like Empire or Northern Spies, as they will hold their shape better when cooked.

Granola-Coated Caramel Apples

6 medium apples
6 pound caramels
6 popsicle sticks (wooden)
1 1/2 cups Amy's Maple & Honey Granola with nuts

Insert one of the wooden sticks into the stem end of each washed and de-stemmed apples. Melt caramels in a small saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly to prevent burning. Holding stick, dip apples in melted caramel, rotating to coat. Quickly sprinkle granola over caramel-coated apple while warm. Place coated apple on a greased cookie sheet to cool.