I love granola and yogurt for breakfast. I love heart-shaped doilies around Valentine’s Day. I love berries any time of day or year. Today’s muffin tin meal features all of those things.
I found a wonderful recipe for granola on a blog called Chocolate Carrots. I didn’t follow the recipe completely. Instead of flaxseeds and puff rice cereal, I used Dulce de Leche Cheerios.* JDaniel loves the caramel flavor in this type of Cheerios. I thought it would add some zip to the granola.
JDaniel had a wonderful time helping me mix the dry ingredients. He later had a great time scraping the wet ingredient bowl with a spoon and eating the remnants in it.
Then I cleaned up the heart’s rough edges and lined it with blueberries.
I thought the granola gave my breakfast muffin tin heart at doily effect. What do you think?
Oh! I decided to make my husband a heart-shaped granola bar so he would have something special for breakfast too. As you can see, JDaniel was dying to get his hands on it.
*Disclaimer- I was sent a box of Dulce Leche Cheerios to review along with a prize pack. The prize pack was provided free of charge by Cheerios and General Mills, through My BlogSpark. JDaniel loved them in the granola and he adored them with milk for breakfast this week.
This post is linked to Muffin Tin Monday.
This turned out wonderfully! You know – I’ve been wanting to try those Dulce de Leche Cheerios!
I love the Dulce de Leche Cherrios. Never thought of adding them to granola. I’m going to know though!
What a wonderful heart shaped breakfast to wake up to.
Love the heart!!
I haven’t seen those Cherrios yet but the granola look delish! Cute idea to cut heart shapes from it 🙂
Very cute and healthy!
Aww! That is really cute!
I haven’t heard of those kind of cheerios! Sounds really good!
I have never heard of Dulce de Leche Cheerios but I bet they are delicious. What a pretty breakfast plate you made for your baby.
Cute, cute, cute. All that and edible, too!
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Love your homemade granola idea and forming it into a cute heart plate makes it a real love breakfast! 🙂
I love the touches of color with the blueberries and strawberry.
Good idea for the kids’ breakfast tomorrow!
That is really cute and a really good healthy idea. Valentine’s things are usually all so unhealthy 🙂
so cute! I think we’ll do this tomorrow!
So cute to shape it in a heart!
Glad to see how much of a hit that was!
I love the granola heart. When I see something like that I have to eat very mythodically.
I love granola! Such a yummy & healthy way to start the day.
Dulche de leche Cheerios? And here i thought they only did cardboard flavor 😉
small world! i know the brother-in-law of the chocolate and carrots gal. he plays in my honey’s worship band. i’ve been meaning to make the granola!
How cute! You’re such a creative mom.
I love that you shaped it into a heart! So cute!
how sweet – and delicious!
Fun! We LOVE homemade granola. For a great sensory activity, mix the dry with the wet by hand! Sweet P LOVES doing this (and then eating it off her hands later!).
How cute! That came out great!
how cute!
hope yall are having an amazing Valentines 🙂
Beautiful breakfast!
What a cute idea! How did you make the heart shaped granola bar?
What a great idea. I think it looks great.
I haven’t heard of those cheerios before – I’ll have to look for them!
You always make eating healthy decorative and fun! 🙂
Snow Bunny or Not?
That looks really good! I bet your husband loved his special heart breakfast treat too.