Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

so good, i modified it a bit added, nutmeg, cinnamon, use protein powder instead of wheat germ, use maple syrup instead of corn syrup. cut sugar in half. turn out awesome! now for the test waiting for my girls to come home.

My boyfriend and I love these! 🙂 I’ve made them twice so far and I love experimenting and having fun adding random ingredients in there! They’re a great healthy snack and the texture is perfect. 🙂 The 9×13 pan lasts us almost a month, and they stay nice and chewy the whole time. 🙂

Really good recipe but it does crumble for me as well any suggestions……

The bars were too dry and didn’t have much flavor. Not chewy at all! They were more brick/crumbly-like. You must drink some tea with these to help them go down.

These are great! Substituted honey for corn syrup and they still turned out great. A definate make again!

These have an awesome flavor, but they definitely don’t hold together like I was hoping. I was making these for a weekend trip, and needed them to be something that the kids can easily eat in their seats while riding in the car, and they’re so crumbly that they require a bowl. Next time, I will use far less dry ingredients and press it down very firmly into the dish – not lightly.

It’s great as is, and if I’m missing some ingredients, I can substitute honey for the syrup, oil for applesauce, flax for some of the wheat germ, extra cheerios for marshmallows, add nuts… I press firmly with waxed paper under my hand both before and immediately after taking out of oven for best hold together-ness.

These tasted good but came out more like cookies than granola bars.

I did not care for this recipe.

Eh. The concept is great, this was one of the recipe with the least amount of crazy ingredients and quickest turn around times. The flavor was very iffy for me. They were hard to swallow, very dense. They do hold up well though. Maybe try it with a little coconut next time?! I am not sure. My kids did not like them very much but my husband took them on a hike and enjoyed them. I am unsure, all I can say is Eh.

Good flavor, but it fell apart after it cooled. Almost like loose granola cereal.

Great bars, very easy to make and my kids and husband loved them. Thanks for a great recipe!

These bars fell apart when i cut into them. I didn’t care for the taste. I thought they were bland.

This recipe is very easy and very good! My daughter is allergic to peanut butter so I made it with sunbutter. A little crumbly so I will add more sunbutter next time like someone else suggested about adding more PB. Overall, very good.

Tastes even better the next day. My teenagers did not like it but my toddler and I will keep using it for snack-time! Thanks!

I thought these were very good, however I gave them 4 stars because if I had added all of the dry ingredients listed, it would have been far too crumbly. I only used 2.5 cups of rolled oats, 1/3 cup of wheat germ and omitted the cereal all together. I used dark instead of milk chocolate chips because that’s what I had and I think it would have been better with Milk chocolate chips. I could taste the applesauce a bit. A bit. If I did not know it was in there I would probably just wonder what that slight flavor was and continue eating it though. I will definately make again.

maybe I did something wrong, cuz mine were super crumbly. delicious, but crumbly.

I am very sorry to say, we did not care for these. Dry, crumbly and without much flavor.

This recipe is awesome! I like to keep my kiddos’ snacks healthy and this recipe is one way I achieve that. I substitute honey for the corn syrup and milled flaxseed for the wheat germ. Make sure and reduce the time to 23 – 25 minutes. They brown quick at the end of baking. I bake a pan, cool, then cut into bars. I put each bar into a snack-size ziplock bag, then all of them go into a gallon-size freezer bag. My kiddos know to grab one in the morning and it is thawed out by snack time at school.

Followed the recipe exactly as written with the exception of replacing the corn syrup with honey because I am allergic to corn in any form. I thought the flavor was good but as other reviewers stated, the bars came out crumbly. I will try adding more peanut butter next time to see if it makes a difference. Also, after baking for 25 minutes, the outter edges of the granola were almost starting to burn..so I think I will reduce the amount of cook time as well. Thank you for sharing this recipe. I know I will be trying these again!

I made a few changes to make them a little less sugary and maybe a little “lighter”. I used 1/4 cup of brown sugar, Trader Joe’s organic chunky peanut butter, homemade SF maple syrup instead of corn syrup, homemade organic applesauce, dried blueberries instead of chocolate chips (the submitter of this recipe suggests to change out the chocolate chops and marshmallows with dried fruit and nuts if you would like, which I did), and I cut the wheat germ back to a heaping 1/3 cup Wheat Germ because I read a lot of reviews that claimed these bars were crumbly. Now, I baked these for 20 minutes at 350 and they were really well done. I don’t know how to get the chewy consistancy of granola bars because it seems that even when I cut the time back, they’re overdone. I don’t mind them being crumbly, it’s just I would like them to be chewy sometimes. I got eighteen bars, just like the recipe stated. I cut them up and individually wrapped them and stuck them in the freezer for weekly lunches and snacks. I get 18 organic bars for less than two bucks for the whole batch instead of almost five dollars for six. Not bad.