Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Granola Bars are a healthy and delicious snack made easy with only 5 REAL ingredients! Also gluten-free and vegan!
Do you remember those quaker chewy granola bars (my main inspiration for these sweet potato granola bars)?
I’m pretty sure you do unless you’ve been living under a rock for several years. Throwback to middle school when I used to eat at least 2-3 per day. My Mom would get a giant box of 90 from Costco so we were always stocked up with them. They used to be my go-to snack -now these chocolate chip sweet potato granola bars are my go-to.
I remember how incredibly chewy and sweet these little bars were and perfectly studded with baby chocolate chips ensuring that you got chocolate in every bite. Flash forward to 10 years later, and I haven’t had a chewy granola bar in FOREVER!
I was seriously craving one so bad the other day that I had to give in and make my own healthier version. This is how these Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Granola Bars were born.
These granola bars mimic the Quaker ones without all of the added sugar and artificial sweeteners. You won’t believe that they are only made with 5, yes 5, REAL food ingredients! Let’s take a look at the ingredient list:
Dry gluten-free oats
Roasted Sweet potato
Almond butter or other nut butter of choice
Maple syrup of liquid sweetener of choice
Dairy-free chocolate chips/chunks
5 Ingredient Homemade Granola Bars
Not only are these homemade granola bars made with 5 nutritious ingredients, they are also so easy to make! They are the perfect kid-approved grab-n-go snack or make-ahead breakfast. They are also gluten-free and vegan-friendly!
5 Ingredient Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Granola Bars {Gluten-Free + Vegan!}
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry oats
- 1 cup mashed sweet potato about 1 large or 2 small
- 1/4 cup almond butter or other nut butter
- 2-4 tbsp maple syrup depending on your sweet-o-meter
- 1/3-1/2 cup chocolate chips/chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and coat a 8x8 baking pan with oil or like with parchment paper. Add oats to a large bowl and combing sweet potato, nut butter and maple syrup in a small bowl, mix well and combine with oats. Add chocolate chips and mix well. Place mixture in pan and spread evenly, bake for 15 minutes or until done.
- Slice into 8 bars. Enjoy!
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Questions of the day!
What’s your favorite way to eat sweet potatoes!?
I loved everything chewy! Chewy chips ahoy cookies chewy bars….just….things need to be CHEWY!
It’s been aaaaages since I’ve had a granola bar, if you can believe it! I’m obsessed with sweet potatoes and chocolate so this recipe is perfection to me – plus the fact that it only calls for a few ingredients? Brilliant! Definitely the perfect snack to have on hand day in and day out!
YES I ate the chewy bars; these look even better! I would love to try these soon; my list of fall recipes is growing so big!
Oh I remember chewy bars all to well. I don’t even want to think how many I ate as a kid. But with those big chocolate chunks and sweet potato involved, they have nothing on these! And so simple too 🙂
These look so great! I love anything sweet potato- and add some chocolate… perfection!
These look so delicious and EASY! I’ve been all about sweet potatoes lately!
These granola bars look delicious! I never thought about sweet potatoes in bars like this, but I think it’s a great idea. Can’t wait to try them!
I rarely use sweet potatoes in baked goods but every time I do I wonder why I don’t use them all the time! This looks DELISH! <3
These look so delicious!
I love granola bars! I always have Nature Valley ones handy in my cabinet. I dig the idea of sneaking in some sweet potato veggie goodness into bars!
I used to always have those granola bars as a kid! these sound amazing- I need to try baking with sweet potatoes!!
I’ve never made granola bars with sweet potato before, that’s a fantastic idea and a wonderfully healthy alternative to dairy butter and other such unhealthy fillings.
I’ve used kabocha squash in baking before and I loved that, so I’m going to need to introduce sweet potato to granola bars too. Awesome, thanks! 🙂
Love how easy these sound and they look delicious!
Thanks so much for sharing your delicious Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Granola Bars with us, they will be great! Hope you will come back to see us at Full Plate Thursday real soon and have a great week!
Miz Helen
The oats you use are they steel cut or minute ?
they are old fashioned but minute would work as well 🙂
Hi Athletic Avocado,
Great to see you! Thanks for coming to the Blogger’s Pit Stop Linky Party last week.
Janice, Pit Stop Crew.
thank you!
Do you have to keep these in the refrigerator? If not how long will they last outside of the refrigerator?
Hi Elizabeth,
They should be fine without refrigeration for about 5 days!
Nutritional facts?
I was trying to add everything up. Just didn’t know if you had it figured up already. Thanks!
Cannot wait to make these!!
Hi Paige,
We actually do not have the nutrition facts on our sight. Hope you enjoy!!