Aussie Bites

Excellent recipe. I had some crumbling problems, but added 1/2 cup olive oil and made sure to flatten mix firmly in each muffin pan. They came out perfect!

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These Aussie Bites are great! Just like the ones at Costco. Yeah, unfortunately they're full of butter/fat/cholesterol but will try substituting applesauce or something in place of the butter. I would add 1)that you grind up the oats - the whole rolled oats looked awkward and 2)when they come out of the oven, they're crunchy. So put them in a cookie jar or ziploc bag for a while and they'll soften up

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The first time I tried this recipe I made it as written. It came out fine. I made a few changes. I used whole oats and rough chopped them in a food processor. In place of the sunflower seeds, I used chopped almonds. For dried fruit, I used 1/4 cup each of brown raisins, golden raisins, dried blueberries, and dried cherries. Both times I made it, it made 50-54 instead of the 30 the recipe stated. My grandkids love them. And so do I.

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hahaha im australian and i have never seen/heard a recipe for aussie bites like this at homee haha... they sound good thoughh

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Great recipe!! They are a hit with my husband.

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These turned out PERFECT! They taste exactly like the ones from Costco and we will be making them on a regular basis. I'm assuming that the ones from Costco are also just as "fatty", because the only claim they had was "no transfat", which butter does not have. Cookies are not healthy, anyway, so just treat these as you would an oatmeal raisin cookie.

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I, too, was disappointed there was so much butter used, so I tried the recipe using only one stick of butter, or 1/2 cup, then I combined olive oil and canola oil to make up the other 1/2 cup. I would have used all olive oil but I didn't have enough on hand. I followed the rest of the recipe. I made sure to flatten the ingredients in the muffin cups, as the recipe states, and heated for 9 minutes. The recipe turned out great. A couple of muffins, or"bites", crumbled their way out, but that's because I didn't wait for them to cool, so now the crumbled ones I can use as a very tasty granola.

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This recipe is a starting point, nothing more. I had lots of issues with crumbling, etc, so I revised the entire recipe. I also created a lowfat version, and my husband says both my creation and the lowfat version are even better than the Aussie Bites from Costco! Now that is something to write home about. You can see both versions of my Aussie Bites recipe here: http://bad-girls-kitchen.blogspot.com/2008/06/aussie-bites.html

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I googled aussie bites after loving the ones from Costco and all of the recipes are virtually the same as this one. The problem is that I just made some and they came out so crumbly that they fell apart when I took them out of the pan. What did I do wrong? Also, I used dried shredded coconut. -- is that the same as what comes from a can or is the canned stuff in liquid??

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these are amazing...and they taste just like the starbucks aussie bars! i used 1 cup of golden raisins, raisins, and dried cranberries for the dried fruit. they were delicious! thank you!

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I made these yesterday and they are fantastic! I got 54 of the mini- muffin size, not 30. I had no problems with the oats being crunchy. I used the silicone pans and baked exactly 10 minutes. Thanks for a GREAT recipe.

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