No bake, 30-minute, homemade granola bars (!!). I've been trying different granola bar recipes for what feels like years now. Lots of off-flavors and crumbly bars (if you can call them bars). I wanted something reminiscent in flavor to Megan's granola recipe (a salty cardamom flavor) bound together without using nut-butters (mostly for flavor reasons). I shied away from using butter and brown sugar. But after many many tries, it works consistently. And since I use both butter and sugar in my morning oatmeal, I said to myself, what's a little more? The method of this recipe comes from Foodess, one of my favorite blogs these days. She nailed it.