Healthy Granola Bars
Granola bars you make at home — peanut butter oat protein bars, homemade granola bars, blueberry oatmeal bars, no bake granola bars — for busy school mornings.
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snackPeanut Butter Oat & Chocolate Protein Bars
These high calorie protein bars a great way to bulk up with about 320 calories & 20g protein in each bar.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup Blended oats
- 3/4 cup vanilla Protein powder
- 1 cup Melted Peanut Butter
- 3/4 cup Maple syrup or honey
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup Semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup Peanut butter
- 2 tbsp Maple syrup or honey
Instructions
- 1Combine both oats and protein powder.
- 2Mix in peanut butter, vanilla, & maple syrup. Should be like a cookie dough consistency.
- 3Line square pan with parchment paper. Firmly press in oat “Dough” mixture. Chill for 15 minutes.
- 4While chilling, melt together peanut butter, chocolate chips, & syrup.
- 5Pour over oat “dough slab” and spread evenly. Chill again for about 15 minutes to let chocolate sit.
- 6Remove from chilling before chocolate fully hardens and cut into 12 long shaped bars. Let completely chill now until firmed & hardened.
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A pan of bars on Sunday means breakfast is handled all week. You know what went in them, they cost a fraction of the boxed kind, and nobody complains about eating the same thing twice.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the mornings get loud and the store-bought box is already empty — school lunches, long drives, and that 3 p.m. stretch when dinner is still hours away.
Every recipe here is a real pan of bars: Peanut Butter Oat & Chocolate Protein Bars, Homemade Granola Bars with honey and peanut butter, Blueberry Oatmeal Bars, Chewy Granola Bars, and no bake granola bars for the days you won't turn on the oven.
Quick Tips
- 1
Press the mixture hard
Pack it into the pan with the back of a measuring cup or your palm for a full minute — loose bars crumble every time.
- 2
Chill before slicing
Give no-bake bars at least 2 hours in the fridge, or 30 minutes in the freezer, before you cut them.
- 3
Warm the peanut butter
Microwave the peanut butter and honey together 20 to 30 seconds so it pours and coats the oats evenly.
- 4
Toast the oats first
Spread oats and nuts on a sheet pan at 350°F for 8 to 10 minutes for a deeper, nuttier flavor.
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