no bake homemade chewy granola bars
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no bake homemade chewy granola bars
Description
The no bake homemade chewy granola bars recipe uses a mixture of oats, crisp rice cereal, and ground flax seed as a base. The sweet binder consists of raw or brown sugar, honey, coconut oil, and salt boiled briefly to dissolve the sugar, then mixed with crunchy peanut butter and vanilla extract. When poured over the dry ingredients and stirred together, the mixture is allowed to sit briefly to cool and thicken before being pressed firmly into a lined cookie sheet. Mini chocolate chips can be included for added flavor and texture. Setting in the fridge allows the mixture to firm enough to cut into bars that remain chewy and hold their shape without baking. The recipe also notes freezing the wrapped bars for convenient grab-and-go snacks, as they thaw soft and pliable by lunchtime.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup raw sugar or brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups honey
- 1/3 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 tsp salt fine sea salt
- 1 cup peanut butter 100% all natural, crunchy
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 cups rice cereal I used organic, crisp
- 2 2/3 cups old fashioned oats
- 2/3 cups Flax Seed ground
- 1/2- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine your oats, crisped rice cereal, and ground flax seed. Stir with a large spoon until well combined. Set aside.
- Measure out sugar, honey, coconut oil, and sea salt and place in a sauce pan over medium heat. Bring it to a boil. Stirring the whole time, boil for exactly 1 minute so mixture combines and sugars dissolve. Take pan off the heat and add in the crunchy peanut butter and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth. Pour this Peanut buttery honey deliciousness over your oat/rice crispy mixture. Stir until well combined.
- Let this mixture sit for about 5-8 minutes. Meanwhile, Grab a large cookie sheet or jelly roll pan sized(mine is sized at 12½ x 17½ by 1 inch), and some parchment paper. Place cookie sheet on a large piece of parchment paper and trace around the outside of it. Cut it out and place this on the inside of your cookie sheet. It should fit perfectly. This will help later to keep the granola bars in one piece before cutting up.
- Next pour out granola bar mixture onto cookie sheet. Press with a second cookie sheet so it is flat. Then immediately spread your chocolate chips on the top and press again.
- Allow to cool. You can add it to your fridge or leave on counter to cool. Once the bars have cooled completely, slide solidified mixture out of your pan. Now take a knife and cut the bars into the size of your choosing. (I cut 5 bars across and 7 bars down making 35 bars total).
Notes
- Freeze individual wrapped bars in a freezer-safe bag for later use.
- Thawed bars become soft and chewy, suitable for packing in lunches.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 35bars
Amount Per Serving
Calories 204 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1g | |
| Calories | 204kcal | 10% |
| Carbohydrates | 28g | 9% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 9g | 14% |
| Saturated Fat | 3g | 15% |
| Cholesterol | 1mg | 0% |
| Sodium | 58mg | 2% |
| Potassium | 109mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 20g | 40% |
| Vitamin A | 15IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 27mg | 3% |
| Iron | 0.8mg | 4% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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