These are my new favorite homemade Larabars:
Only, they’re not really Larabars at all.
I stumbled upon the recipe while making Hot Fudge Brownie Larabars.
The hot-fudge Larabars used to be my favorite. But their place has now been usurped… by a non-chocolate bar?! Yes, these oatmeal cookie bars are so good I like them better than the chocolate flavors! I’m a disgrace to my chocolate-covered blog.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Larabars
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Larabars
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup raisins (80g)
- 6 tbsp quick oats (30g)
- 1/2 cup raw walnuts (40g)
- 1/8 tsp plus 1/16 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
Pulverize the oats in a food processor, then add all other ingredients and blend very well. Form into balls or bars. (If you want, you can portion the dough into plastic bags before smushing the bars, so your hands don’t get sticky.) This recipe makes a little over three Larabar-sized (45g) bars. I like to double the recipe—the bars last at least two weeks in the fridge. They can also be frozen. **My recipe always turns out sticky, but a few commenters said theirs turned out dry, which makes me suspect they probably just need to process longer. (If for some reason they are still too dry, add just a tiny bit of water and process again.)
Do you have any favorite “non-chocolate” snacks?
If a certain favorite snack of mine doesn’t have chocolate, it’ll probably either have peanut butter or coconut. But really, most of my favorite snacks have chocolate!
Here’s a list of all the Homemade Larabars Flavors.
Just made these, so simple, easy and taste good too 🙂
What binds all the ingredients here.
Just made these and they were DELISH! One question though, mine came out a bit crumbly. I substituted pre-chopped dates (they were drier than sun maids medjool dates) for the raisins because that’s all I have on my hands at the moment… money can be tight as a college student. Any suggestions on how to make them more moist? Thanks, I loooove this website <3
All these recipes for Larabars sound great, but what can I use instead of walnuts? I usually deal with my nut allergy by simply cutting the nuts out, but the walnuts here are too much of a main ingredient to cut. Are peanuts a good substitute even in the non-peanut butter recipes?
I love your food!!! I love making the larabars (I just can’t stop eating them). I made the oatmeal raisin cookie bars today (omit salt, add pumpkin pie spice), and the coconut cream bars..NOM NOM!!!! 😀
Hi Katie! When you say “pulverize the oats” is the end result essentially equivalent to oat flour (I have some on hand.)? Or is it supposed to be a little chunky-ish? I have a vitamix and a kitchen aid blender. The vitamix guy told me (I imagine he knows what he is talking about!) that OTHER blenders (my kitchen aid probably) are essentially large food processors and food processors are little blenders. Do you agree? So … do you suppose pulverizing the oats in a blender will work the same as a food processor??? Thanks 🙂
These are amazing! I doubled the recipe and used my small cookie scoop to make 16 portions. I ended up eating 2 right away out of amazement! I have the rest in the fridge. I’ll have to hold myself back from these pieces of heaven!
To the person who said it didn’t hold together- keep mixing until it does. My kids were annoyed because I had the food processor going for a while to get the right consistency, but it was well worth it. They all agreed:)
I may be the only person with this problem but mine turned out all crumbley–so I pressed batch into bottom of 8×8 pan and put in fridge–hoping that will allow me to cut into bars? Otherwise, not sure what to do–maybe my ingredients were too dried out.
Add a little water to the crumbles and reprocess. Sounds like you just got too dry dates is all. Water will work!
I can’t believe this is the first time i’ve seen this blog! Thank you pinterest because I have clearly been missing out! I just finished making these and oh boy are they ever good.. with that being said, my poor magic bullet and blender had a very hard time pulverizing the doubled recipe. So I thought as a note for anyone else who doesn’t own a food processor, I thought I would mention that adding a bit of unsweetened apple sauce in at the end made any parts the blender mix bind together much easier (:
I tried these out and was impressed. I actually didnt expect them to be that great but they were tasty and so easy. I added a little cinnamon and used almonds instead of walnuts. They’re really sticky though so I stored them between parchment paper.