Peanut Butter Banana Granola Bars are a healthy and delicious snack made easy with only 5 REAL ingredients! Also gluten-free and vegan!
Dang it feels good to recipe create again! It’s been such a long time since we got in the kitchen and made something because of grad school. Not saying that we couldn’t find the time to make a recipe, but we thought it was better if we focused on academics lol.
Needless to say, we’re back with another simple and easy recipes. We’ve found that our most popular recipes are those with the most simple ingredients such as this one, Peanut Butter Banana Granola Bars. These are similar to our Sweet Potato Granola Bars! Super easy to make with only a few ingredients that you probably already have in your house:
Oats
Ripe bananas
Peanut butter
Maple syrup
Chocolate chips
The Peanut butter Banana Granola Bars are super easy to make with only a few ingredients. They are a delicious on-the-go breakfast or snack for you and your family. Also gluten-free and vegan!
5 Ingredient Peanut Butter Banana Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups dry oats
- 1 cup mashed banana about 1 large or 2 small
- 1/4 cup peanut 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 banana, 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.
- Let cool and slice into 8-10 bars.
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Love how this uses staple ingredients I always have on hand! You can never go wrong with peanut butter, banana and chocolate!
Yum! These guys look so chewy. Love how simple the recipe is too
Yummm these look so good – and made with ingredients I already have! We love anything with peanut butter or bananas – especially if a recipe involves both!
This is one of my favourite snacks.
It’s fun and quick to make.
I’m wondering if you use natural peanut butter, or “regular” pb?
Hi Krista,
We used Natural since its more runny and mixes well with the other ingredients!
Granola bars used to be my FREAKING JAM as a kid! My childhood self could eat an unlimited amount of those Nature Valley oats n’ honey as well as peanut butter crunch bars! These bars would have been absolutely perfect as a healthier alternative. I’d still dig into them any day!
Thanks so mcuh Cassie! As you can tell, granola bars are still our jam 😉
This was so good even better kept overnight in fridge second day. I added blueberrys instead of choc chips
Hi Alison,
So glad you enjoyed! Blueberries sound like a great addition 🙂
Loved it! I added vanilla to mine& made a double batch. I’m not sure how they will keep on the counter top, so I’m storing in the fridge. Amy idea how best to store?
Is there an alternative to using bananas?
You can used canned pumpkin or mashed sweet potato (about 1 cup to replace mashed banana)!
Do you use old fashion oats or quick oats?