Chocolate Granola Bars with protein and oats! Loaded with complex carbs, healthy fats and protein, this homemade granola bar recipe is perfect for healthy breakfast or snack!
If you're looking for the best homemade granola bar recipe, look no further! This chewy granola bar is chocolatey and full of oats and flavor. I know you will love it!
Making healthier snacks and treats is a must in my book as a nutritionist! One of the things I learned in my own 80-pound weight loss journey was the importance of incorporating foods you love. Everyone tries cutting out foods they think make them fat, but that always backfires into overeating and falling off the wagon.
Time to create a sustainable way of eating and learning to include all foods you enjoy eating in moderation! My favorites are this easy baked yogurt recipe, healthy chocolate banana bread, and this low calorie brownie recipe!
While I do buy a few store bought granola bars and protein bars here and there, it's rare. It's hard finding granola bars without a ton of added sugar and calories. I prefer making my own, and honestly they are so easy to make!
This simple chocolate granola bar recipe do not disappoint! Might I recommend you do not skimp on the chocolate part of these homemade chocolate granola bars?
This yummy recipe is by far the best chocolate granola bar recipe I've ever made and I'm not just saying that. Close tie to these healthy nut and seed bars which are beyond perfect but technically, they're not a granola bar. But a great grain free option!
I highly recommend you make these healthy chocolate granola bars as soon as possible, and remember what I said about not eliminating foods from your diet too!
This healthy chocolate granola bar recipe is made with simple ingredients - peanut butter, oats and protein powder. They taste perfect, cook perfect, hold together perfect and are nutritionally balanced.
Customizable too! I added mini chips to mine, but you could add nuts, seeds, raisins or other dried fruits I'm sure to the recipe too.
All around the perfect everyday granola bar. Easy to make too! Combine all ingredients in a bowl, place in a baking dish and bake 15 minutes. Seriously, that easy!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup Gluten Free rolled oats
- 1/4 cup vanilla protein powder
- 2 tablespoons flax meal
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted peanut butter or any nut butter
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil or melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons mini chocolate chips dairy free
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350 F. Prepare an 8-inch x 8-inch square baking dish by lining with parchment paper.
- To a small bowl, combine vanilla, maple syrup, melted coconut oil, peanut butter and sugar. Mix to combine well.
- To a larger bowl, combine rolled oats, protein powder, flax meal, cinnamon and salt.
- Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients until fully incorporated. Then fold chips into the batter dispersing them well.
- Transfer the batter to the baking dish, spreading into an even layer with a spatula pressing into the corners. I found using my hands was helpful!
- Bake 17 minutes. Remove from the oven, cool in the pan 20 minutes. Lift the parchment paper out of the baking pan and set on a cutting board. Slice into 16 bars.
- Optional: drizzle melted chocolate over the top.
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Notes
- For the recipe, I've also used 1/2 cup Gluten Free Oat Flour with 1/2 cup Gluten Free Rolled Oats. Either method works!
Nutrition
These look yummy, The recipe says 16 bars but your photo shpws it cut into 12? wondering about the nutrition , is it for 1 out of 16 or 1 out of 12 bars?
It should be 12 bars. I just updated the nutrition values. Thank you for the catch!
Hi there, thank you for this delicious recipe. I've been looking for something to enjoy with my coffee every morning that isn't some big box brand. My wife surprised me and made them for me last night and they are very tasty! As I'm tracking macros right now I had a question about the nutrition facts. The serving size says 1G but I'm guessing it means one bar? How many grams would you consider an appropriate size for one bar?
Hi Aaron! Glad you liked the bars! The nutritional values represent 1 bar.
got it thanks Megan!
Also do they keep at room temperature or do they have to go in the fridge? I want to take them to a cottage and they can't be in the fridge for quite a few hours. Thanks!
They should be stored in the fridge, but they'll keep just fine a few hours out of it.
can you substitute the protein powder? just not something we use, but love the look of the recipe
You should be able to substitute oat flour.
Has anybody tried to sub oat flour? I'm curious of the result, thank you!
Peanut butter and chocolate are the best combo! As far as the possible date, I would move on, because there are good men out there worth waiting for.
Thanks for telling me that!
I am all for chocolate and pb combined- can't wait to try these!
Hope you love them Laura!
Those look amazing!! AND no more chances for that guy.. I think that tells it all!
Haha...thanks lady!
Is there coconut sugar in the recipe? I think you left it off the ingredient list? These look delicious. Good luck on the dating scene
For some reason it wasn't showing on your end, but it should be now.
These look amazing! On a note about men, don't write us all off. There are still some of us good ones out there. Yes, we do all act like we are 15 most of the time.....well pretty much all of the time. But some of us were raised right and taught to treat women the old fashioned way, you know hold the door and all that jazz. Keep the yummy stuff coming!
Good to know Patrick!
Ugh, sorry about the dating experience - sounds like a bad sitcom! This recipe looks amazing, can't wait to try it. Thanks!
Haha...like a Seinfeld episode!
Yep. My hubby acts like he is an 80-year-old man sometimes and the rest of the time he is a 10-year-old boy, god help me when we have kids. There are so many days that I think to myself, if I didn't know what was in that I could just eat it like the rest of the world. every job has it's downside ha ha that doesn't bother me near as much as staring at beautiful pics of food all day like these granola bars!
I thought I was the only one who felt that way about food (and men).
I'm at that age where many many of my friends are we entering the dating world. For the second time 🙂 I swear it never changes. What is up with these men??
Yeah, I am too and now I'm the victim of that. lol