A delicious and homemade granola bar that’s easy to whip together and chockfull of flavour!
As another school year quickly approaches, I feel like I have to force myself to start thinking about everything school related. Like early bedtimes. Eating breakfast at a normal hour. Snacks. Lunches. You know, routine. I’ve been especially thinking about snacks and what I send to school for our little ones. My goal this school year is to send homemade snacks as often as I possibly can. We usually succeed with this as the kids love veggies or muffins for recess snack but I have to admit once springtime rolled around, the granola bars started appearing in our grocery cart. I’m not sure if we, as moms, just start getting tired come April or if the kids start getting tired of the snacks we send them, but all of a sudden we stop in the granola bar aisle and they start jumping into our cart!
I really dislike filling our grocery cart with a bunch of store-bought treats. These past couple of years I’ve really started to watch the ingredients in boxes and the food we eat in general. Don’t get me wrong, I wish I could do a lot better, but I am happy we’ve come a long ways. As I was reading the ingredients on a box of granola bars I actually ran out of breath as there were soo many!
And then my auntie shows up on a family picnic with her homemade granola bars and I was hooked. No more bought ones for us! These are soo darn delicious, I promise you won’t be able to eat just one. Unless you have incredible self control! I love the chewy combination and it’s chockfull of flavor!
I’m planning on experimenting with the sugar and syrup in this recipe but thought I’d share it anyway! I’ll let you all know if I make a bit of a healthier version of these bars!!
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/2 cup butter; softened
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 tbsp. sesame seeds
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 3 cups oats
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/3 cup flax
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a large mixing bowl, add first 5 ingredients.
- Stir well until combined.
- Add remaining ingredients.
- Mix until well blended.
- Line a 9X13" baking pan and press granola into pan.
- Bake for 17-20 minutes.
- Cool and cut into bars.
- Freezes well.
After I cut the bars, I wrapped them individually in plastic and froze them. They were so handy to have all summer and just grab them from the freezer. Perfect for hikes, trips to the beach, and just for snacks!
Do you have any yummy ideas for school snacks? Let me know if you do; I’d love to try some new ones!
-Kendra
These look seriously delicious! Thank you for sharing! Pinning!
Cat
Thank you, Cat! So glad you stopped by! xo
Peanut butter chocolate chip granola bars are my favorite!!! Thank you so much for sharing!
Mine too, Lisa! Thanks so much for coming by! xo
Oh wow! These look awesome! I’m so familiar with how the whole granola bar aisle ends up in my pantry some weeks….! Too funny! My brain is reeling with possibilities… Thanks girl!
Thanks, Heather! Glad you understand! Hope you enjoy these and thanks so much for stopping by!
These look fantastic!
Thank you, Amy! We really enjoy them!
These look SO good and healthy without all of those WHO know what they are ingredients in them like the box variety. I am going to pin these and try them out!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
Thanks so much, friend! Totally agree! I know you’ll love them! xo