Christmas Granola

Last night I made the first batch of my Christmas gift granola. Cranberry-Vanilla-Pecan with home-toasted sunflower seeds.

4 C rolled oats

2 C crispy brown rice cereal

1 1/2 C toasted sunflower seeds

1 1/4 C shredded unsweetended+unsulphured coconut

1 C dried sweetened cranberries

1 C chopped pecans

2 T tablespoons cinnamon

2 t vanilla extract

3/4 C grapeseed oil

3/4 C maple syrup

Preheat oven to 250 F. Make sure you can fit two 9x13" pans (I prefer glass Pyrex) comfortably on either the top or the 3/4 up rack in your oven. Gently mix all dry ingredients together in large bowl. In seperate bowl whisk the wet ingredients, then add to the dry and gently mix with untill evenly coated. I like to use a silicone bowl-scraper for this step. Spread evenly in the two pans, bake for 30 min, remove and toss gently (I use a wooden spatula for this step) then bake for another 30 min. Stir gently once more to prevent total sticking to the bans, cool and store airtight!