Easter Granola Eggs

Last week we bought some plastic eggs in preparation for Easter, and since then my kids kept wanting to play with them. They hide little lego pieces in the eggs, calling them Easter surprise eggs and take turns opening the eggs to see what surprises are in them. They even had fun mixing an matching the colors of the bottom and top and bottom parts of the plastic eggs to create new color blends.

Since the plastic Easter eggs are always lying around the house anyway and the kids have so much fun playing with them, I thought of putting them to good use by making some Easter granola eggs for the kids to snack on as well.

I used my basic veggie granola bar recipe and shaped them into Easter eggs rather than the usual square shapes I typically make.
In keeping with the Easter theme, I used the carrot-mango-banana baby food puree this time around, but I've used several different kinds of baby food purees in this recipe in the past, and they have all worked great.
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The recipe is very simple. I like to pre-toast my oats before mixing in the wet ingredient mixture.

Before shaping the granola mixture into the plastic Easter eggs, I oiled the inside of the plastic eggs to prevent the granola from sticking. Alternatively, you can also use cooking spray to coat the inside of the eggs.

To shape the granola, I filled both halves of the eggs with the granola mixture, making sure that one of the halves is filled a little higher than the rim so that when we press both halves together to close the plastic eggs, the granola mixture in both halves will stick to each other and not create a gap in between them.

I refrigerated the filled eggs for a few hours for the mixture to set into the egg shapes.

The hardest part for my kids is to wait patiently for the time that they can eat these :)
These are fun healthy snacks not just for Easter time, but all year round.