This is what we ate for breakfast this morning. Well, maybe I should call it brunch even though it's only granola; it was close to noon by the time we ate it. Besides, it has chocolate in it and that makes it fancy enough to be called brunch even if it's only granola.

The recipe is French Granola from Orangette (scroll way down). I found it via Make Something just before Christmas but put off making it until I'd finished the Christmas granola* we got from Jane and Niall. Karyn suggests mixing up a second batch of the dry ingredients to have on hand for when you finish your first batch and I'm definitely going to follow her advise. This stuff is so good.

I pretty much followed the recipe as written. I was too lazy to chop up my own chocolate and bought mini chocolate chips instead. I think they look pretty cute anyway. I also added some dried cranberries (orange flavoured) because I like to have a little fruit in my breakfast. They go very nicely with the chocolate.

Cooking the granola filled the kitchen with the loveliest delicate "wake up" aroma - almonds and honey and oats all mingling together. I cooked my granola for about 30 minutes to get a nice colour. My baking sheet has very low (or non-existant) sides so things were kind of mounded up in the middle to reduce my chances of spilling granola all over the floor of the oven. A rimmed baking sheet will be procured in my next shopping trip.

I'm torn between giving jars of this to every person I know and keeping it all for myself. It's really that good.
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*It had every yummy thing you could possibly think to put in granola plus chocolate covered almonds and raisins. I was very sorry to reach the end of our supply.