These are the best homemade energy bars, and they taste fantastic! If you want to increase the fiber in your diet and you’re tired of giving your kids those boxed, tasteless, dry granola bars, try making them.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 20 |
| Yield: | 20 bars |
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups rolled oats
- ¾ cup sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins)
- ⅔ cup sunflower seeds
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup toasted sesame seeds
- ½ cup oat bran
- 3 tablespoons flax seeds
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups creamy natural peanut butter
- 1 cup honey
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix oats, cranberries, sunflower seeds, chocolate chips, sesame seeds, oat bran, flax seeds, cinnamon, and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in peanut butter, honey, and oil until well combined. Press mixture firmly into a 9×13-inch baking pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill for 10 minutes to set.
- Slice chilled bars into twenty 2×3-inch squares. Wrap each bar in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 359 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 38 g |
| Cholesterol | 1 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 175 mg |
| Sugars | 22 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
They are good, very sweet. You could leave out the vanilla chips or cut the honey a bit and still be plenty sweet for me. The flavors have a lot going on. The cinnamon gets lost. But they are good. I let these cool at least 10 minutes (and they were still hot on bottom) before I put in the refrigerator. I took out after 10 minutes, and they started to crumble when I tried to cut and remove them from the pan. They really need to fully chill for at least an hour to set up. Once they were completely cold, they held up better.