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.
These look delish! Do they call for dates also?
Oh man, these look and sound so delicious. I love Larabars but I definitely don’t love the price each one of those babies are. Thanks for the great recipe. It sounds just like an oatmeal cookie, but without all the yucky sugar and butter. Any chance you’ll make some homemade peanut butter and jelly “Lara”bars? Or have you already and I’m just late in the game?
You can form my pb cookie dough cookies into larabar form (I usually do that). Maybe sub some of the raisins for dried cherries or other dried berries if you want more of a pbj flavor? https://lett-trim.today/2011/08/24/peanut-butter-cookie-dough-cookies/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
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This looks amazing!! Could you use sunflower seeds instead of walnuts? I don’t have any other kinds of nuts and was wondering if this would still work and stick together if I used sunflower seeds.
Omygod, these are so good! So fast, and really close to my favorite oatmeal raisin cookies. I like larabars okay, but the addition of oats makes these much more cookie like, and I like them better!
I feel like adding a few chocolate chips to these could not be a bad thing.
these are literally the best things i’ve EVER tried. i LOVE your blog. thank you so much for all your delicious recipes. you are awesome!
These look SO good! I love your recipes, Katie! 😀
These are AWESOME!!! I threw in crasins and flax seeds as well….sooo delish! Thank you!
Works for me! I love these little ones 🙂
Not entirely sure what I did wrong here, but these came out so dry that I couldn’t form them into bars. I had to add almond butter to get them to become somewhat wet. maybe next time i will add more raisins. They were still great with the almond butter though. Thanks!
Hmmm… maybe the food processor wasn’t strong enough to fully process the raisins or break down the walnuts? That’s all I can think of, because mine are usually SO soft… sometimes even verging on being a little TOO soft from the oily walnuts!
I’m glad you found a way to save them, though!
I just made these! I rolled them into little fudge baby balls, though. I wanted to make this flavor because they don’t have chocolate in them (WAIT — Let me explain!!!). My mom is allergic to chocolate, poor thing, and she gets terrible migraines if she eats it. I loved the chocolate chip fudge babies so much that I had to use this recipe so she could try one! She loved them, too! I took some pictures, and I thought they were cute enough to share! Here are the links! Hopefully, they work! Oh yeah, I didn’t have walnuts so I used almonds.
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Nice pictures! How can I post a picture here?
Awww! They do work! I love the little polka-dot truffle wrappers– so fancy!
This just absolutely made my day! 🙂
LOVE this recipe! thanks!
I just made these with dried tart cherries and pecans…yuuuuummmmm! Thanks for the recipe. I love Lara bars but didn’t love paying for them.
Would these be good to take for an excursion? Or what recipe you’d recommend?
Sure! 🙂
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Today I had an emotional day and ate a whole batch of fudge babies for lunch with a glass of almond milk and don’t even feel bad about it. Looking forward to trying strawberry shortcakes tomorrow for breakfast and many more of your recipes. Genius!
Do you have a suggestion for substitutions when there are nuts involved? I’m allergic to all treenuts but can eat peanuts, but sometimes I just don’t like the nut flavor. Any suggestions on what to sub with for this recipe and some of the others that call for nuts?
Here’s my fudge baby flavor without nuts: https://lett-trim.today/2011/04/11/girl-scout-samoas-in-larabar-form/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E