Are you looking for a good granola bar recipe?
This recipe won’t disappoint.
These delightfully chewy granola bars include all the goodness of everyone’s favorite Quaker granola bars, but without the corn syrup, refined sugar, and long list of artificial ingredients. So if you’re looking for a good granola bar recipe…
It’s staring you in the face. 🙂
Unless you are extremely tall or your computer is low to the ground.
Then it’s staring you in the belly button.
It even looks like a face. See the eyes and the nose? Those would be made out of chocolate chips. Yes, a chocolate chip face.
Are you jealous?
I am!
Oh, to live life with a chocolate chip face…
Quaker Style Chewy Granola Bars
(Can be gluten-free)
- 1 cup rolled oats (for all substitution notes, see nutrition link below)
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup rice crispies (brown, white, or gluten-free)
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp oat flour (see recipe instructions below for an easy substitution) 55g
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or veg oil (See nutrition link below for notes on a fat-free version.)
- 1/4 cup agave (Honey will also work, but not for strict vegans.)
- 1-2 packs stevia (up to 1/16 tsp uncut) or 1-2 tablespoons brown sugar or extra liquid sweetener
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp applesauce (banana would probably work as well, or pumpkin!)
- Ideas for the add-ins: mini chocolate chips, chopped raisins or other dried fruit, shredded coconut, chopped walnuts, etc.
Unless you’re doing the no-bake option, preheat oven to 350 F. Combine all dry ingredients and mix very well. (If you don’t have oat flour: simply grind rolled oats in a food processor to make oat flour. Be sure to measure the correct amount of flour for the recipe after grinding, not before.) In a separate bowl, combine wet ingredients. Stir wet into dry and use another sheet of parchment (or wax) paper to squish evenly-coated mixture into a parchment-lined 7×5 pan (or double the recipe for a bigger pan). Squish very, very hard, with a can or something heavy. Either fridge until firm (the no-bake option is firmer if you use coconut oil), or cook 18 minutes, then squish very hard again. Cool in the fridge for at least ten minutes before cutting into bars.
These bars can be stored at room temp, but if you use coconut oil they’re best kept in the fridge. Or they can even be frozen. The bars thaw very well. Other homemade granola bar recipes:
(Click on the photos to see the recipes.)
Do you wish you were taller?
Or shorter? Or are you happy exactly the way you are? I’m 5’5, and I always wanted to be taller when I was growing up. But now I actually like my average height. My grandpa used to say that you’re tall enough as long as your feet touch the ground. How are grandparents so wise? 🙂
Those bars look amazing! Going to try them pretty soon 🙂
As for your question- I don’t remember having an issue with my hight growing up, however sometimes today I do wish to have few more inches (I’m 5.05 feet). Any way, my moto for my hight is- good thing comes in small packages 😉
Awesome! I might try these with date paste as the sweetener and see how that turns out!
I LOVE these. I can already see how I can stir some protein powder into the mix to really power them up as an after-workout snack too ;).
I have always wanted to be shorter (I’m just under 5’8″). I don’t know why, because I actually like my height and am starting to embrace it. I think I just always ended up being friends with people who were tiny, like 5’1″ or 5’2″ and I just felt self-conscious and LARGE next to them. But now I’m really owning it, and wearing heels more often which is a big thing for me too!
I’m making these today!! My husband refuses to eat the store bought ones now that I’ve been making yours. He is very upset when I run out of time to make them!! Might try this as a maple walnut version. I’ll let you know how it turns out!!
I’m 5′ 2″ and I must admit I wish I was little taller. I feel a little cheated- my little sister is 5’10” and my little brother is 6’3″, at least my 2 older sisters have the same short gene as me!!
Ooh definitely do report back on that! I love anything maple-flavored. 🙂
My sister stole all the thick hair genes from me, so I know how cheated you feel! (Never mind the fact that I was born before her… ;))
Why yes…yes I was looking for a granola bar recipe! Thanks for asking! These look perfect.
I was always tall and skinny so I wanted to be shorter. Now I’m fine with it. Kinda nice to be able to reach the tall stuff!
How many does it make and pan size?
Thx
Yikes! Edited post! A 7×5 pan (or 8×8 for thin bars) or double for a 9×13!
YUM!
Haha I was going to do the cooked version, but I couldn’t stop eating them and so I gave up! They’re awesome!!!
Way better than the ones I’ve had from Quaker. Way way better.
*Runs off to eat some more!*
🙂
So excited you already tried them! 🙂
Did you know that you are a mind reader? I spent the morning trying to find a recipe exactly like this — a chewy nutritious granola bar without all the oddball ingredients. Then I turn around and you have posted EXACTLY what I was looking for! Yay!! These are being made pronto — and I see many flavor variations coming to my kitchen soon :o)
Wow lol that’s too funny!
I bet my mind is easy to read. It’s always fixated on chocolate ;).
Omigosh these look delicious and totally remind me of being a kid and eating granola bars all the time! I’d love to make this healthy version! As for height I wish I was a little shorter. I’m not tall (only a little over 5’4″) but I wear 5 inch heels every single day which puts me about 5’9″ or 5’10″… aka I need a tall boy who can keep up with my heel wearing habits!
I am jumping up and making these immediately, thank you! Still looking for a granola bar that my sensory boy will eat… he is a good eater flavour-wise, but is texture sensitive. He does like your chocolate date cashew ball recipe, but more so if I press them in a pan, cut them into squares and call them brownies! 😉 Kids are so funny.
As for my height, I am 5’2″ and don’t mind being small, except for functionally… reaching things high up, and it’s annoying holding/opening large jars with small hands!