Homemade Granola Bars

Indulge your sweet tooth while keeping it low sugar with this nutty and delicious homemade granola bars recipe. Just 25 minutes from start to finish. Yum!

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About This Recipe

I think you’ll agree with me that it’s THE BEST when you can make a sweet treat a little healthier without sacrificing flavor. Well, as it turns out, there are a ton of easy ways to step back from sugar without turning snack-time into a bummer!

Good news on that front! Today I’ll show you a healthy trick for making the best granola bars in your own kitchen. Now, whether you decide on calling them oatmeal bars, cereal bars or oatmeal breakfast bars is totally up to you. However, regardless of the name, the resulting taste will be a total hit!

Are Granola Bars Good For You? 

Unfortunately many of them are not because they tend to be high in sugar and fat, and may also contain preservatives.

That’s when making homemade granola bars is a great idea! You know exactly what goes into each bar and you also get to control how much or how little sugar and fat you want to add to them.

How To Make Granola Bars

This homemade granola bars recipe is one of those recipes that is very easy to make. Only a few steps are required to making them, all of them quick and easy.

1. Put the walnuts and almonds in a blender and pulse until they’re chopped.
2. Add rolled oats and dried fruit and pulse until the whole mixture has a broken-up and has a rustic-style texture to it.
3. Transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and add the remaining ingredients. Mix well.
4. Spread the mixture on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
5. Bake in the oven at 350ºF for about 15 minutes.
6. Let the mixture cool down to room temperature. Slice the bars and enjoy!

Expert Cooking Tip

Don’t pulverize the mixture to dust in your blender or food processor. Chunky might be a good adjective to think about when approaching the nuts / oats / dried fruit mixture.

Homemade Beats Store Bought

The best thing about this low sugar granola bar recipe is that – aside from a small amount of sugar in the chocolate chips – the sweeteners are totally natural. I just love cooking with raw honey and maple syrup. They bring a more subdued and complex sweetness to the table than regular sugar.

Now, I’m not opposed to using sugar at all. In fact, my sweet tooth is usually the one in charge (hello magic cookie bars!). But it’s nice to have alternatives to sugar for some recipes – while keeping the full flavor aspect intact!

How about you? What’s an ingredient you’ve swapped out in one of your recipes that turned out as good, if not better, than the original? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below!

Other simple and delicious snack recipes:

• Peanut Butter Protein Balls
• Sweet Potato and Black Sesame Pound Cake
• Easy Peanut Butter and Honey Fudge
• Super Nutty Chocolate Bark
• 10-Minute Pumpkin Dip

Did you like this recipe? Are there changes you made that you would like to share? Share your tips and recommendations in the comments section below!

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