Oatmeal bars

Healthy Peanut Butter Chunk Oatmeal Bars

Soft and chewy peanut butter oatmeal bars made with wholesome, wholesome components. The chocolate is optional. Sort of.

Let’s discuss anything.

Is there genuinely this kind of a factor as “too significantly peanut butter?” Due to the fact I’m pretty sure we test individuals limits in excess of here on Sally’s Baking Addiction.

My aim for today’s bars was to create a wholesome, fast, and easy oatmeal bar with tiny elements and a complete lot of taste. I also wished a bar that you could effortlessly adapt making use of your preferred mix-ins or what ever you have on hand. I also needed some thing overloaded with peanut butter due to the fact well… duh.

In these 100% vegan bars (except for that chocolate drizzle!) you’ll uncover your common kitchen staples. Nothing weird, practically nothing requiring a google search, and fairly certainly nothing you’ll have to visit a special grocery shop for.

Total wheat flour, oats, a touch of brown sugar, baking soda, peanut butter, a lot more peanut butter, even More peanut butter, and some chunks for texture. I additional dairy-totally free chocolate chips and raisins to my bars, but really feel free to add your favorites! Dried cranberries, white chocolate, far more nuts, seeds, dried banana chips, and so forth.

Disclaimer: I am mildly obsessed with raisins and I don’t care if this can make me an old woman.

Every bar is rather dense and holds its own. They’re soft, rather moist and not dry in the slightest. I kept my bars in the fridge and LOVED biting into them cold. The chilled chocolate chips and peanut butter blend is spot on and easily filled me up when I desired a snack or something to carry to function. Or a midnight munchie.

Midnight bites happened a good deal with these infants!

In addition to adding in whichever chunks-of-things you’d like, you could very easily make these bars your personal by including in much more or significantly less brown sugar. I discovered that 1/two cup was lots and didn’t make these bars overly sweet, particularly considering that I extra chocolate chips and a light chocolate drizzle. Chocolate was a comprehensive necessity to my peanut butter bars.

Peanut butter & chocolate: saving tastebuds all over the place on this blog.

I’m a huge sucker for healthy recipes requiring a tiny number of ingredients and taking as tiny time as attainable. With only 8 common components, plus your little include-ins, I’m claiming these bars to be just as simple as my five ingredient wholesome peanut butter chocolate vitality bites. And they only consider about 25 minutes to make start off-to-finish!

I detest extended ingredient lists and recipes taking for-ev-errrr in the kitchen. None of that with these!

Oh! And these bars are entirely vegan. I utilised dairy cost-free chocolate chips and almond milk in the dough, but melted regular chocolate chips with peanut butter as the chocolate drizzle. The drizzle is fully optional and you could make it with dairy-totally free chocolate chips if a vegan bar is what you’re going for.

A modest and frequent ingredient checklist, a complete great deal of peanut butter, chocolate for my tastebuds, no butter or oil to preserve my skinny jeans searching fab, chewy plump raisins, and a recipe taking less than 25 minutes.

So as I sit right here acquiring more than a tummy-ache as I publish this submit, consuming peanut butter spread on saltine crackers – precisely what I had for lunch AND breakfast, we can just go ahead and response that first query with a enormous no.

There is in no way this kind of a factor as also considerably peanut butter.

Healthier Peanut Butter Chunk Oatmeal Bars

Yield: twelve-sixteen bars, depending how big you minimize them

Soft and chewy peanut butter oatmeal bars made with wholesome, wholesome components. The chocolate is optional. Sort of.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (100g) packed brown sugar


• one cup (250g) creamy peanut butter (or chunky)


• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract


• one cup (127g) total wheat flour


• one cup (80g) previous-fashioned rolled oats


• 1 teaspoon baking soda


• one/4 teaspoon salt


• one/2 cup (120ml) milk (I utilized almond milk, but use whichever you prefer)


• 1/two cup (90g) dairy-totally free chocolate chips (or standard chocolate chips)


• 1/two cup (70g) raisins (or whichever combine-ins you'd like)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line a 8x8 baking dish with parchment paper or spray with nonstick spray. Set aside.


2. With an electric or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix the brown sugar and peanut butter on medium speed right up until light in color and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Combine in the vanilla, scraping down the sides as essential.


3. On medium velocity, include in the flour, oats, salt, and baking soda. The dough will be really thick and clumpy, but it will come together. Gradually include the milk in a steady stream, mixing until finally a dough varieties. Fold in chocolate chips and raisins. Use your hands to make certain every thing is combined, if essential.


4. After dough is fully mixed, press it lightly into the prepared baking dish. Bake for about 17-twenty minutes right up until the bars are lightly golden and set. Permit to great totally and reduce into squares. I maintain mine in the fridge in a covered container. Bars will be very good stored up to two weeks.

Recipe Notes:

*I melted three tablespoons of chocolate chips with 1 tablespoon of peanut butter for the chocolate drizzle. This is entirely optional. Be positive to use whichever mix-ins you like instead of the called for chocolate chips and raisins.

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