Bake for around 15 minutes or until just starting to colour. Allow to cool completely in tin before removing and slicing. Store in the fridge or freezer. Please leave a comment on the blog or share a photo on Instagram. Jump to Recipe. Continue to Content.
Instructions Line a slice tin with baking paper and set aside. Did you make this recipe? Renovating to make money — 6 tips to make it a success. This will keep your bars from getting bent or broken as they freeze. Once they are frozen through, you can take out the cookie sheet. Hi, does this ring true for all homemade oat bars? All are ok to freeze? Also, how long will they keep in the freezer? My name is Julie, and I'm a food writer and recipe developer.
Here on Savvy Eats, I write about how to store food, canning ideas and recipes to help you use up your preserves. Believe me on this. After the mixture has cooled enough that the mini chocolate chips wont melt upon contact, pour the granola mixture out onto the large cookie sheet. Next, tear off another large piece of parchment paper and place this over your granola mixture. Take another jelly roll pan or cookie sheet the same size and place it on top of the parchment.
Press down. This will help to compact the granola so that the bars will stay together and not fall apart. Little helpers love to do this part. Remove cookie sheet and parchment, sprinkle mini chocolate chips evenly over the top and repeat the process above, taking the parchment paper and extra cookie sheet and pressing the two together so that the chocolate chips get pressed into the bars. Remove parchment paper and cookie sheet. If you have fridge space, place cookie sheet in the fridge to finish cooling.
If not, it can finish cooling on the counter just as well. Once the bars have cooled completely, slide solidified mixture out of your pan. Yell hallelujah and pat yourself on the back for using parchment paper. At this point they should look like this…. Be prepared to be blown away. I was amazed at just how easy these were to make and how good they tasted. Not only are my homemade chewy granola bars tastier, they are healthier too. Place in a freezer safe zip lock bag and freeze.
By lunch hour they have thawed, becoming soft and chewy again. If you loved this recipe and are hungry for more check out the from scratch or freezer meals section of my website.
Oh and if you try this recipe out please come back and let me know if you liked it too! I make granola bars quite often. This recipe is a winner! Like your recipe, my original recipe from a friend had PB and chocolate, but I like to change things up by substituting ingredients.
Almond butter, dried fruit, unsweetened coconut, pumpkin or sunflower seeds… the delicious combinations are endless! Also brown rice syrup works as well as honey. Someone in the comments mentioned that her bars fell apart and this will prevent that from happening. So I made this so amazing! Do you happen to know the macros of one bar? I followed this recipe exactly and I found that it was waaaay too sweet.
Next time, I would cut the honey in half and probably omit the sugar completely. I cannot eat more than a few bites of a bar without gagging or needing an entire glass of water to wash it down. Honey is extremly sweet and it is used in this recipe as a binding agent to keep oats from falling apart.
Just made these and they are awesome! I love a bit of sweet but not too much. So did not add any sugar and used half the minimum choc chips suggested. Used brown crispy rice cereal only 1gm sugar and was enough to make two batches.
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