These No Bake Almond Butter Granola Bars are healthy, delicious and can easily be made in just 15 minutes! Perfect to grab on-the-go in the mornings too!
Um you guys.
These Almond Butter Granola Bars are kind of amazing. Seriously. And there is ZERO baking required which means they are literally the easiest thing you will make this week (and you WILL make them because they’re THAT good).
It really took me no time at all to throw these together. I mean really the only thing that takes a little while is actually waiting to eat them, but hey that just makes them that much tastier right?! I love bars that I can easily grab on-the-go in the mornings and these also make for a perfect midday snack while at work. Truth be told I brought these into my office to share with my co-workers and they lasted all but 10 minutes….I even had a request to bring in more!
THESE BARS ARE KID-FRIENDLY!
These granola bars are crunchy, chewy and lightly sweetened with honey and brown sugar. If you want to omit the sugar altogether, you can easily just add a little extra honey. I’m also loving the almond butter in this recipe, it just gives such a delicious nutty taste to the bars. If you don’t have almond butter on hand, try using peanut butter! I mean whoever came up with the brilliant idea of putting chocolate and peanut butter together was clearly a genius so you really can’t go wrong with that tasty combination.
These are also great for kids too! They’ll love helping you make them, especially sprinkling the mini chocolate chips over top, but most of all they’ll enjoy eating them too! Store these individually wrapped in plastic wrap in a sealed air-tight container to keep them fresh or feel free to freeze them for later.
These almond butter granola bars really are super simple to make, but I do want to note that allowing the honey mixture to simmer on the stove for a full two minutes is the key to making sure these bars stick together so don’t skip that part! Also giving them enough time to firm up in the fridge for 1 to 2 hours is important too, but I promise they’re completely worth the wait!
If you decide to make these bars please share your photos! Tag me on Instagram or Twitter and use the hashtag #eatyourselfskinnyrecipe – I’d love to see what you come up with!
No Bake Almond Butter Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 1 cup puffed rice cereal
- 4 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 Tbsp mini chocolate chips, divided
- Pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine rolled oats and puffed rice cereal; set aside.
- In a small saucepan on medium-high heat, whisk together coconut oil, brown sugar, almond butter and honey and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium-low, continually whisking, and allow mixture to simmer for about 2 minutes. Remove mixture from heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
- Pour mixture over the dry oat mixture and fold together so everything is evenly coated. Stir in one tablespoon of chocolate chips and transfer to a prepared 9×13-inch baking dish lined with parchment paper.
- Press granola mixture firmly into the baking dish (I used extra parchment paper to press down to avoid granola from sticking to my fingers) and sprinkle remaining chocolate chips over top along with a pinch of sea salt. Cover and refrigerate for two hours.
- Remove from refrigerator and lift the parchment paper so the bars are easily removed from the baking dish. Cut into 18 bars and store at room temp individually wrapped in plastic wrap or freeze for later.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hello, my honey mixture split- what did I do wrong? Is there anyway of bringing it back ? Thankyou
Hi! I am new to your website and I am OBSESSED!! Your recipes are awesome. Question … I am trying to find a balance with clean eating and not being TOO strict. I noticed you mention in your bio you eat clean but some of your recent recipes have processed foods (brown sugar, noodles). Do you eat those meals and snacks on the weekends?
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to start trying all your wonderful creations!! And I love love LOVE that you include the nutritional info. So great.
Kandyce
Thank you so much Kandyce! I try to eat as healthy as possible and live by the 80/20 rule so I make dishes that are mostly healthy and often times will have some added sugar or noodles like you said. I don’t necessarily only allow these on weekends as I find if I’m TOO strict on myself I’ll overindulge haha, but if I know I’m splurging for dinner I’ll eat extra healthy for lunch 😉 It’s all balance!!
With the quarter cup of honey, can I leave out the brown sugar?
Absolutely! They just won’t be as sweet 🙂
Can you substitute raw sugar for the brown sugar? Really trying to decrease sugar intake.
Absolutely!
What kind of rice cereal did you use?
I used Arrowhead Mills whole grain puffed rice cereal, but Rice Krispies would work great too in this recipe if that’s easier to find! 🙂
These look great!! I have been wanting something like this to make for my kids since the ingredient list on store bought granola bars is generally unpronounceable. I’ll have to give them a try!
I have a lot of allergies, like take for instance almonds. I have already decided I could easily use another nut butter but then I get to the coconut oil do you have any suggestions to sub for coconut oil? I cannot eat avacados or macadamia nuts so those are both out. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂
Any type of oil would work for this recipe 🙂
how much sodium in this recipe.
About 55 mg – I added a pinch of sea salt to these, but you could leave that out if you are watching your sodium intake 🙂 Without the salt one bar is about 33 mg.
These look so good! At first glance, I thought they were like Uncle Toby’s museli bars but so much healthier!!
These look amazing ! I will try making them this week x
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