Did you know you can make your own breakfast cereal? It’s actually quite easy and fun to do! If you’re a fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, this recipe is for you. It’s crisp, slightly sweet, and super cinnamon-y. The base is grain-free, and includes my favourite ingredient for boosting protein, fibre, and healthy fats, hemp seeds!
And paired with a luscious liquid like my Super Creamy Hemp Milk will keep you full for even longer, help stabilize your blood sugar, not to mention flood your bod with the delicate nutrients and powerful enzymes that store-bought, pasteurized, plant-based milk is missing. And since we’re thinking outside the cereal box here, don’t stop at breakfast…this milk is amazing in coffee and tea, in raw treats and baked goods, soup, smoothies, ice cream and popsicles. You’re gonna love it!
Cinnamon Hemp Crunch Cereal
Ingredients
- ½ cup / 70g Manitoba Harvest hemp hearts check them out here!
- ½ cup / 50g ground flax seeds
- 1 cup / 100g blanched almond flour
- 1 ½ Tbsp. ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. fine sea salt
- ¼ cup / 35g coconut sugar
- ¼ cup / 60ml unsweetened applesauce
- 1 Tbsp. expeller-pressed coconut oil melted
Directions
- Preheat oven to 325°F/160°C.
- In a food processor, pulse the hemp seeds until finely ground. Add the ground flax seeds, almond flour, cinnamon, salt, and sugar, and pulse to incorporate. Then add the applesauce and coconut oil, and pulse again to mix until a rough ball of dough is formed.
- Place dough ball on a sheet of parchment paper and place another sheet on top. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough as evenly as possible, about 2mm thickness (not quite paper thin). Remove top sheet of baking paper, and using a paring knife, score the dough into small squares of your desired size (mine were about 1.5cm / .5” square).
- Place in the oven to bake for about about 20 minutes until fragrant and turning golden around the edges, then turn the oven off and let the cereal sit in there until cool (this will help dry it out and make them extra crisp).
- Once the cereal is completely cool, break up the pieces into squares and place in an airtight glass container. Store for up to one month at room temperature.
Notes
Super Creamy Hemp Milk
Ingredients
- scant 4 cups / 1 litre water
- ¾ cup / 100g Manitoba Harvest hemp hearts
- Optional add-ins:
- sweetener stevia, dates, honey, maple syrup…
- vanilla
- sea salt or pink salt
Directions
- Place all ingredients in the blender and blend on high until smooth (this make take a couple minutes).
- Pour directly into a sterilized bottle and store in the fridge for up to 5 days.
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