Happy July 4th from the MixMyGranola team!

Wishing all of our loyal MixMyGranola customers a Happy 4th of July! Enjoy the Holiday weekend!

Cheers,
Andreas, Matt and Raoul

Foodie-Heaven Epicurious features MixMyGranola!

Who doesn’t love Conde Nast’s amazing food and cooking website epicurious.com? So we were obviously quite flattered when the editors told us that they want to run a story about granola and would like to include MixMyGranola! And we all know that granola is a true “Breakfast for Champions”, right?

Have a look at the full feature on Epicurious.com here.

See MixMyGranola’s cool feature on Brides.com

We all know that MixMyGranola is the perfect gift for any occasion, but since we have been creating a lot of buzz at weddings by supplying wedding planners with our customized cereal as gifts for wedding guests (one of our favorites: “The Lavish Parker Wedding Munch“), the ultimate wedding website Brides.com has recently featured us on their amazing site.

So if you are planning a wedding and want to do something different for your guest, email us at info@mixmygranola.com to get a quote for your customized wedding mix! Read the complete feature on Brides.com here.

MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes (Part 3): Granola Banana Bread

The next yummy recipe in our mini-series of MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes is here! Today we are making Granola Banana Bread.

Here we go – it’s easy to make:

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of MixMyGranola Organic Granola
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 ripe bananas
• 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
• 2 tbsp. melted butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp. vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tbsp. baking soda
• Dash of cinnamon

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Spray bread pan with non-stick cooking spray
• Combine all wet ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.  Mix together with a mixer on medium speed.  Be sure to mix until there are no longer large chunks of banana
• Add dry ingredients and mix well
• Pour into bread pan and bake for 35 minutes

Voila – it’s done! Get your granola at MixMyGranola.com!

MixMyGranola “How it Works!” Video

MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes (Part 2): Nut Butter Granola Muffins

Since your responses to Part 1 of our MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes mini-series was so overwhelmingly positive, we decided to keep it going and pump out more of Amie’s yummy granola recipes.

Today we have Nut Butter Granola Muffins on the menu.

Here is the amazing recipe:

Ingredients:
• ¼ cup of MixMyGranola’s Low-Fat Granola
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• ¼ cup natural almond butter
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• ¾ cup flour
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• 1 tbsp. melted butter
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup brown sugar

Directions:
• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
• Spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray
• Mix all wet ingredients together; beat on medium speed with a mixer
• Add dry ingredients
• Pour into muffin tins
• Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown

Bon Appetite and don’t forget to check out MixMyGranola right here!

MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes (Part 1): Granola Oatmeal Pancakes

So many of our customers have asked us: “Why don’t you have any recipies on your blog? There are so many amazing things you can do with MixMyGranola’s granola!”

And so we decided to start a little mini-series called “MixMyGranola’s Granola Recipes“. We worked with baking genius Amie Valpone from the Healthy Apple Blog to create the most delicious and simple-to-make recipes that are quick and easy to follow.

Here comes the first recipe: Granola Oatmeal Pancakes!

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup of MixMyGranola’s Organic Granola
• 1/3 cup oats
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 a mashed, ripened banana
• Cinnamon to taste

Directions:

• Mix together oats and two eggs with baking powder, vanilla extract and cinnamon in a bowl. Add mashed banana to the batter and mix well.
• Add MixMyGranola’s Organic Granola and continue to mix.
• Preheat a skillet on the stovetop sprayed with non-stick spray.  Pour batter into skillet over Medium heat, forming into a pancake shape with a spoon.
• Cook for 3 minutes or until slightly brown; flip the pancake with a spatula and cook for another 3 minutes.
• When pancake is completely cooked and has started to brown, remove from skillet and serve.
• Top with fresh fruit and drizzle with honey, syrup or warm nut butter.

Enjoy and check out MixMyGranola right here!

Apartment Therapy’s cool cooking site “The Kitchn” reviews MixMyGranola

Oh yes! MixMyGranola delivers granola at the click of a mouse. Thanks to the whole Kitchn team for featuring us!

See the full review on The Kitchn here.

A New Era of Customization: Introducing MixMyGranola Enhancers!

Today we are taking MixMyGranola one step further and are introducing the newest addition to our family of ingredients that can added to our customized granola mixes: ENHANCERS!

Similarly to the vitamin boosters that we all know from Jamba Juice and Smoothie King, our Enhancers add an extra boost to your granola: Need to Detox? Give yourself a Pomegranate Shot. Want a Vitamin Boost? Treat yourself to a Vita Cherry Booster.

Sounds good? Click here to check out all 16 of our cool Enhancers.

Gourmet Magazine features MixMyGranola!

Yes, we have been working hard to reach out to the press to tell them how good our granola really is, but this is probably the feature we are most proud of so far: Gourmet’s June 2009 Issue features MixMyGranola!

See the Gourmet feature (and the amazing picture!) below:

Get your Daily Dose of Granola from Woman’s Day!

So today we heard that Woman’s Day featured us on their Daily Dose blog. Well, who doesn’t need a daily dose of granola?

See the full feature on Woman’s Day here.

MixMyGranola wishes you a wonderful Memorial Day!

We hope you guys are enjoying Memorial Day weekend!

Cheers,

Andreas, Matt and Raoul

A Pastry Chef & MixMyGranola?

What happens if a talented pastry chef gets her hands on our granola?  Well – she literally took our granola to the next level: Kat, the cool creator and of the Dirt-Cake Blog had her decadent granola mix with milk and yogurt, but then decided to make a dessert out of it using the a tropical granola mix. Wow- this looks so yummy!

Thanks so much Kat – have a look at the full review right here.

An Update from our Kiva.org Sponsor

Just wanted to update everyone on our sponsored entrepreneur group, 8 de Septiembre Group, on Kiva.org:  They have already repaid 67% of the initial loan!  Click here to read more about the Peruvian Entrepreneurs.  If you are not familiar with Kiva.org, we highly recommend to check out their website and start giving back.

Congratulations to our Perfect Summer Granola Sweepstakes Winner Jamie!

Congrats to Jamie Zangl for winning our Perfect Summer Granola sweepstakes! We picked a winner using a random number generator and Jamie’s entry won!

Here is Jamie’s Perfect Summer Granola Mix: Our delicious French Vanilla Granola combined with Cranberries, Raspberries, Dates, Goji Berries, Macadamia Nuts and Coco Shreds! Yummy!

Jamie’s creation will be available on our Pre-Mix Page soon!