Baked Pear Trail Mix & Granola: A Healthy Vegan & Gluten-Free Snack and Breakfast
Looking for a delicious homemade snack for hiking, lunchboxes, or everyday snacking and breakfast all in one? This Baked Pear Trail Mix & Granola combines fresh pears with wholesome oats, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and cinnamon for a crunchy, satisfying treat packed with plant-based protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Naturally vegan and gluten-free, this easy baked trail mix recipe is delicious on its own or sprinkled over plant-based yogurt, fruit, cereal, or sorbet—and makes a nutritious alternative to traditional granola or packaged snacks.
Just bake up this healthy trail mix up as easy as one, two, three as a healthy snack for the whole family: kids will love it in their lunchboxes and grownups will savor it in briefcases and gym bags. Tote it along for trail hiking, RV trips, and camping, too. This fruity, healthy granola is also delicious sprinkled over cereal, plant-based yogurt, sorbet, or fruit. Use it as a replacement for cereal or muesli in recipes, such as this Creamy Peach Yogurt Parfait.
You can easily swap out ingredients for others to meet your flavor preferences or pantry supply. For example, try walnuts instead of almonds, pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower seeds, and peanut butter instead of almond butter. With only 10 ingredients, you can whip this best trail mix recipe up in no time, and then let it bake slowly in the oven. Because this recipe uses fresh pears, I recommend storing it in the fridge or freezer. I used my mother’s antique blue canning jars (pictured here) to store my baked trail mix. Watch out, it will disappear as quickly as you make it!
Here’s what you need to make this recipe.Just mix ingredients together and pour into a baking sheet.Let trail mix/granola cool, then transfer to an airtight container. Because this recipe features fresh pears, make sure to store it in the fridge and use up within one week.Print
This baked pear trail mix and granola recipe is a healthy vegan and gluten-free snack or breakfast made with fresh pears, oats, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and cinnamon.
Ingredients
Scale
2 small pears, unpeeled (about 2 ½ cups finely diced into 1/2-inch pieces)
Place diced pears in a small bowl and sprinkle with lemon juice.
In a large mixing bowl, mix together almond butter, maple syrup, vanilla, and water with a whisk until smooth.
Add pears with lemon juice, oats, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and cinnamon to the large mixing bowl with almond butter mixture.
Mix the pear-oat-nut mixture well to moisten dry ingredients.
Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray and spread trail mix evenly in the pan.
Place in the center of the oven and bake for about 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes, until trail mix is golden brown and most of the moisture is removed from the pears, which should be slightly dried yet soft.
Remove from oven, cool, and transfer to an airtight container. Store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or freezer for up to 6 months. Note: Since this recipe features fresh pears, keep chilled and use up within one week.
