This homemade Butter Pecan Granola recipe is the only granola recipe you need! Perfectly sweet, crunchy and full of so much flavor. This small batch granola bakes in just 30 minutes and tastes so good!
Your breakfast just got a whole lot easier and tastier too. Today I'm bringing you an incredibly delicious small batch butter pecan granola recipe and I'm sure you're going to love it.
Buttery and nutty, this granola is perfect to enjoy with yogurt or in a bowl of milk. It's so easy to make, I don't think you'll ever go back to store-bought granola again.
Why This Recipe Works
Homemade granola has to be one of the easiest breakfast recipes to make. Purchasing boxed granola can be such a waste of money because making it yourself is just so easy.
The thing I love most about making granola from scratch is that you can use up items in your pantry to create any kind you like.
You will likely find the same ingredients in all granola recipes. Ingredients such as oats, nuts, a sweetener, butter or oil, and sometimes salt. These along with the few delicious ingredients we're adding to our butter pecan granola recipe make this one stand out!
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Ingredients
See below for ways to use leftover ingredients.
Ingredient Notes
- Oats: I use old-fashioned rolled oats in my small batch granola recipes. If you'd like to make a gluten free granola, be sure to use gluten free oats. I do not recommend using quick oats.
- Nuts: Feel free to switch up the nuts you use in your version. Consider using cashews, pumpkin seeds, or walnuts.
- Coconut: I use unsweetened shredded coconut, you may sweetened instead if preferred.
- Butter: Salted butter is what I prefer using, you may use coconut oil instead.
See the recipe box below for ingredient amounts and full recipe instructions.
How To Make This Recipe
- In a small saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Remove from the heat and stir in the maple syrup and vanilla.
- Add the oats, coconut, nuts, brown sugar and cinnamon to a large bowl.
- Pour in the liquid ingredients and stir until the oats and nuts are completely coated.
- Spread the granola out on a rimmed baking sheet.
Bake the granola for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes to achieve an even color.
Expert Tips
- Think of this recipe as a guideline for a basic granola and customize it as you'd like. As long as you keep the ratios the same, it's fine to substitute just about any nuts and dried fruits.
- Customize your granola to include seeds, dried fruit, chocolate chips and spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.
- If you like big clusters of nuts and oats, press the oats mixture into little 1-inch ovals for the first 10 minutes of baking.
- Be sure to let the granola cool before eating or transferring into a jar. As the granola cools, the crispier it gets.
- If you're adding dried fruit to your granola, add it at the end. You don't want to run the risk of burning your dried fruit in the oven. Stir it in after the granola cools.
Frequently Asked Questions
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. Enjoy as a snack, with yogurt, or eat it like cereal with a bit of milk.
Making your own homemade granola is definitely cheaper than store-bought granola.
No, we don’t recommend it. The oats will get mushy when mixed with the liquid ingredients. We recommend using old fashioned rolled oats.
Ways To Use Leftover Ingredients
If you have any ingredients leftover from this small batch granola recipe, you might like to consider using them in any of these single serving and small batch recipes:
- Oats: Baked Apples, DoubleTree Cookies, Half Batch Cowboy Cookies
- Coconut: Coconut Cream Pie, Coconut Macaroons, Mocha Oatmeal Bowl
- Nuts: Microwave Fudge, Apple Cinnamon Scones, Brownies
- Brown Sugar: Apple Muffin, Mini Spice Cake, Bananas Foster
- Maple syrup: Maple Walnut Muffin, Breakfast Bread Pudding, Sweet Potato Pie
- Vanilla: Baked Oatmeal, Butterscotch Pudding, Tiramisu
Looking For Our "Full Batch" Granola Recipe?
This butter pecan granola recipe is one of our oldest recipes. It first appeared on our earlier website, ZagLeft and has always been extremely popular with readers. Since One Dish Kitchen is a single serving and small batch recipe site, we tweaked the ingredients, retested the recipe, and came up with a small batch granola recipe. Those ingredients can be found in the recipe box below. If you would like to make the large batch granola version, use the following ingredient amounts. Bake the granola as directed in the recipe.
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup almonds, chopped
- ½ cup pecans, chopped
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup butter
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Small Batch Butter Pecan Granola
See the post above for expert tips,
FAQs and ways to use leftover ingredients.
Video
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- ¼ cup shredded coconut
- ½ cup pecans , chopped (or use walnuts)
- ½ cup almonds , chopped
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons salted butter
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, combine the oats, coconut, almonds, pecans, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- In a small pot on a medium heat, melt the butter. Stir in the maple syrup.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.
- Pour the butter/syrup mixture over the oats/nuts mixture and stir until well blended.
- Pour onto a rimmed sheet pan.
- Cook for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes to achieve an even color.
- Remove from oven, cool and transfer to a large bowl.
Notes
- Think of this recipe as a guideline for a basic granola and customize it as you'd like. As long as you keep the ratios the same, it's fine to substitute just about any nuts and dried fruits.
- Customize your granola to include seeds, dried fruit, chocolate chips and spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg.
- If you like big clusters of nuts and oats, press the oats mixture into little 1-inch ovals for the first 10 minutes of baking.
- Be sure to let the granola cool before eating or transferring into a jar. As the granola cools, the crispier it gets.
- If you're adding dried fruit to your granola, add it at the end. You don't want to run the risk of burning your dried fruit in the oven. Stir it in after the granola cools.
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Jane says
I just have a quick question....although I don't mind maple syrup on pancakes or french toast I'm not really a fan of maple flavor in anything else. Would subbing honey for the maple syrup work? I realize it's actually a very small amount all things considered but I don't want to make this and then end up not liking it because of the taste.
Joanie Zisk says
Yes, you can use honey or agave nectar instead of maple syrup but the taste of the granola will be slightly different. I've used half honey and half maple syrup when I ran short on syrup and the granola was delicious!
Yt says
Very delicious and easy to make
Alicia says
It was my first time making granola and while delicious (seriously addicting) it is not in clusters at all. I let it sit after, what went wrong?
Joanie Zisk says
Hi Alicia, I'm glad you enjoyed the taste of the granola. To make granola clusters, the granola needs to clump together on the baking sheet while it bakes and cools. In the Expert Tips section, we mention that it is helpful to press the oats mixture into little 1-inch ovals while it bakes.