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? 🙂
Looks yummy!!
I too am a shorty. 5 feet 1 and a 1/2 inches!! Can not forget that half!! But I did not mind it growing up. Being a gymnast I am actually tall!! Not a gymnast these days though. I am a runner so the longer legs would be nice for that!
I hate it when sweets stare at me so I just eat them 😛 .
It is probably hard to believe but I am 5’10” and there were many times I wished I were taller. I am not sure why. Moving to Japan sorta solved my problem 😀 .
Haha that’s how I felt in China! My sister loved it there… she’s 5’1, and she felt tall for the first time in her life :).
I would win this staring contest – I’d just eat their heads off. Wait, what? Nom, nom, nom.
I’m 5’6” and I love my height. I’ve been told by many people that I have the perfect proportions on my body – meh…I hope they’re right. 🙂 I’m excited to try these!
LOL!
I just went and measured myself! I really had no idea how tall I was in cms or feet & inches! It appears I am 5″10 and I wish I was a wee bit shorter as my husband is probably about 5″11 and I would love, love, love to wear heels with him around! I just like him (and he probably does too) to be taller than me.
CCK – Sweetie/others – do you think it would be ok to sub maple syrup for the honey? Honey is not so good for my tum apparently. These sound goods – I too have been searching for a good “granola bar” recipe (here in Aust we would call them “muesli bars”) for a while – in fact I was thinking about popping in a request for one – once again Katie dear, you deliever the goods (and read minds!) xxx
Oops! Just read notes in the nutritional bit about subs – I’ll try the maple syrup and report back!!
Yes yes yes! It works with maple syrup! I tried them last night. I also made them with banana instead of applesauce, 3/4 cup steel cut oats and the rest quick oats and I used olive oil instead of coconut/veggie oil. Oh and I knew this recipe would be good so I doubled it. And it made about 21 nice bars (I pressed them down super hard in the pan). They weren’t as big as regular ones so I would probably eat two.
Anyway, thanks for the fantastic recipe Katie!
Thanks for the tips Hayle – I’ve been sidetracked but will def make this weekend! x
Great timing for this recipe! I keep looking online for good granola bar recipes, and this one looks yummy!
I must express shock- I can’t believe you’re only 5′ 5″! You always look closer to 5′ 7″ or 5′ 8″ in your pictures. I’m only 5′ 4″- it’s the average height but I still feel very very short haha
I think it’s because I have a long torso. Also, my sister is very short so I always look super-tall when I’m next to her in family photos :).
Well, I’m 5’6 (and a 1/2 inch – can’t forget that!) but for most of my life I’ve wanted to be 5’10.
My height is a little above average, and I’m am glad for that.
I’m learning to be content with the way I am, so now, yes, I am fine with my height!
Your granola bar photos look so pretty! Will you try and get one on Food Gawker?
Yes :).
I’ve been submitting to them a lot less frequently simply because of lack of time, so I have a whole bunch of photos I still need to submit. But definitely I will try these at some point. It’s always exciting when foodgawker takes a photo.
Yes, I know. They’re kind of picky. lol!
I hope they accept the photos you submit!
would steel cut work in place of the rolled oats
read the parenthesis right next to the first ingredient.
It’s funny, whenever my friend and I want a break from studying, we would decide to make granola, and it’s always the same granola–peanut butter, oats, and rice krispies (well sometime chex mex, whatever the cafeteria had lol). We would literally scoop huge amounts of peanut butter into a paper cup, and fill up another paper cup with cereal, take stuff like bananas and apples and try not to look suspicious carrying arms full of food out of the cafeteria.
Made this for my bro to take to school, and now he says he wants to be vegan because vegan food is so delicious. xD Kudos!!
lol! I remember those days too… Luckily they allowed you to take to-go boxes from the dining halls when I went to Bryn Mawr, but I’ve heard that they stopped that now and you’re not allowed to take ANYthing out of the cafeteria! 🙁
I cant wait to try this one..i love homemade granola bars because they’re free of all the trans fats and other awful ingredients. these look tasty!!
I’m 5’10 and learning to love it now 🙂