Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Bars. The classic melt-in-your-mouth chocolate oatmeal no bake bars are popular for a very good reason - they're impossible to stop eating! At first glance, traditional chocolate no bake recipes—made with wholesome oatmeal instead of flour—might seem like a healthy choice. But with half a cup of butter.
Annddd. there's zero butter in these bars too, just peanut butter and a little coconut oil. I also threw in some chocolate chips because chocolate + peanut butter is always a. These No-Bake Oatmeal Bars with Peanut Butter & Coconut are one of our favorite healthy treats! You can cook Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Bars using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Bars
- Prepare 4 cups of rolled oats.
- It's 1 cup of almond butter.
- It's 1 1/2 cups of mashed banana or unsweetened applesauce.
- It's 1/4 cup of honey or maple syrup.
- You need 1 cup of milk chocolate chips (plus some for topping).
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Healthy Chocolate Oatmeal Bars instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Line a 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish with parchment paper, leaving some overlap on the sides for easy removal..
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all ingredients except chocolate chips. Fold in chocolate chips last..
- Pour into prepared baking dish and add 1-2 tbsp additional chocolate chips on top..
- Bake 15-20 minutes for a metal pan, closer to 30 minutes for a glass dish. It’s done when you pull up on the parchment paper and the sides pull away and are no longer mushy..
- Sprinkle with a little salt and let cool completely before cutting into bars..
Vegan oatmeal bars full of chocolate chips, peanut butter, oats, and raisins. My goal for today's bars was to create a wholesome, quick, and easy oatmeal bar with little ingredients and a whole lot of taste. I also wanted a bar that you could easily adapt using your favorite mix-ins or whatever you have. Oatmeal and dark chocolate just work. I'm going to make these this week.