Granola Bars (No Bake)

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🍴No Bake Granola Bars Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 Cups Oats

• 1.5 Cups Peanut Butter

• 1 Cup Honey

• 2-3 Tbsp Coconut Oil

• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract

• 1 healthy pinch of Salt

• 1/4 cup Mini Chocolate Chips

Instructions:

1. Add all of your ingredients (except the oats) to a saucepan on Medium heat. Stir periodically for about 5 minutes until the consistency is super smooth and runny and all ingredients are incorporated.

   
   

2. In a separate bowl, measure out your oats. Pour the melted peanut butter mixture over the oats and stir them to coat completely.

   
   

3. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread and smush the oats into the pan evenly. *Be sure to really compact them into the pan or they'll fall apart when you go to remove them later. I use my hands for this, I haven't found a spatula or spoon that won't continuously pull the mixture up each time I smush it down.

   
   

4. Sprinkle your chocolate chips evenly on top and smush those in and down a bit too to make sure they stick.

   
   

5. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour, but ideally 3 or more or overnight.

   
   

6. After they've hardened and cooled in the fridge, pick the entire granola sheet up with the parchment paper and place it on a cutting surface. Cut your granola bars to size. I like mine to be 1.5", you can use a dough scraper or measuring tape to measure and cut with a knife.

   
   
   
   
   

   Melt ingredients together

   

   Melted consistency

   

   

   Storing
   
   

Notes

Bars that won't fall apart

Be sure you really smush the oat mixture into the sheet pan to make sure they don't fall apart when you go to eat/cut them.

Chocolate chips melting?

I like to keep mine in the freezer (all the time). This allows me to smush them into the warm oat mixture, using my (warm) hands and not have them melt all over the place. I also prefer to smush them into the oats instead of mixing them in with the oats because if you mix them in, they WILL melt and you'll have chocolate granola bars.

Refrigeration time

You can definitely get away with a 1 hour cool time but they will be a little pliable still so be careful when cutting. Many times I leave mine in the fridge overnight and cut the next morning - mostly because I forget they're in there LOL.

Other mix-Ins

You can absolutely add in other mix-ins to these bars - nuts, seeds, protein powder, etc.! My family (especially the little ones) love the chocolate chips so we stick with that. I also used to use regular sized chocolate chips and switch to mini ones because the regular ones were just a little too much chocolate.

Storing the bars

I like to store mine in a tupperware in the fridge. I repurpose the parchment paper as separators between layers so they don't all stick together in a big mess.