Deliciously delicate wholesome breakfast bars bursting with fruits, nuts and seeds. The very best breakfast bars ever!
Healthful and do-it-yourself: splendidly filling breakfast bars packed along with your favourite add-ins, heart-healthy oats and scrumptious fruit! What could possibly be higher?
You already know what I like about making breakfast bars versus breakfast cookies? You may prep your entire batch of dough and simply dump your entire factor in a pan, clean it out and bake it. Straightforward peasy, lemon squeezy.
These days, we’re all seeking to make meal prep as simple and easy as doable. And let’s face it, if we may skip the entire prepping a part of meal prep, we in all probability would. (That’s, until we achieved our goals of getting oodles and oodles of free time to benefit from the pleasure of baking.)
So what am I gonna do at the moment to assist issues be a bit simpler, a bit easier, and a complete lot extra scrumptious on your snack prep? Introducing…
Wholesome Breakfast Bars
My simply customizable Wholesome Breakfast Bars recipe! This recipe is one in every of my favourite breakfast bars ever. It’s filled with nuts, seeds, fiber-rich oats, naturally sweetened fruits and a little bit of wholesome fat to maintain you full and energized all through the day.
Better part? You may simply change up many of the components to fit your dietary wants. However extra on that later… <– It’s referred to as intrigue, individuals! 😉 And when you’re on the lookout for one other satisfying breakfast recipe, take a look at my hearty + comforting Protein Oatmeal.
What Are Breakfast Bars?
Breakfast bars are one in every of my favourite breakfast treats! However greater than that, breakfast bars are a breakfast meals that’s filled with essentially the most generally loved breakfast components: oats, bananas, nuts, seeds and a lil’ sweetener, relying on the recipe. 🙂 Sometimes, you’d whisk collectively all of those components, pour them right into a pan, then bake, cool, slice and revel in!
Breakfast bars are an excellent standard possibility as a result of they are often made pretty rapidly, and, might be personalized to your private liking! Similar to with these irresistible Oatmeal Cookie Bars.
In at the moment’s wholesome breakfast bars recipe, I’m taking the idea of breakfast bars and making them wholesome. How are these breakfast bars wholesome, you ask? Properly, they’re filled with fiber-rich and heart-healthy components, a minimal quantity of sweetener, and complete components which you can be ok with. Study extra about these breakfast bars’ well being advantages beneath.
The Elements You Want
My breakfast bars recipe is made with easy, complete components which you can be ok with! I like making these prematurely, then packing some for a day journey or for an extended day at work! Take a look at the scrumptious components beneath!
Learn how to Make Wholesome Breakfast Bars
Questioning how you can make a breakfast bar recipe the wholesome method? We’re gonna make it easy and simple whereas utilizing the least processed components that additionally simply occur to be filled with vitamins and nutritional vitamins. Comply with these tremendous simple steps to make breakfast bars!
Mash Banana
Mash banana in a big bowl. My secret trick for simple mashing? Utilizing a dough blender! You should use a fork or a whisk to mash, however I like my useful device the perfect. P.S. So does Erik!
Prep Moist Elements
Add the remainder of the moist components to the identical bowl: peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil, flax egg and vanilla. Whisk till nicely blended.
Add Dry Elements
Add dry components and fold till nicely blended: gluten free rolled oats, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Voila, you’ve simply made the dough on your breakfast bars!
Fold in Add-ins
Now, for the enjoyable half! Add in your favourite add-in components for absolutely customizable breakfast bars. I like utilizing dried cranberries for my dried fruit, sunflower seeds for my seeds, and chopped walnuts for my nuts.
You may skip all of them and use chocolate chips, when you like. Go wild–they’re your breakfast bars!
Pour into Pan
Pour your breakfast bar combination right into a pan and clean into a good layer.
Bake
Bake for about quarter-hour.
Cool, Slice and Eat!
Cool, slice and eat the perfect wholesome breakfast bars! Then pat your self on the again—you rock!
What makes this breakfast bars recipe wholesome?
You is perhaps asking your self, “What within the heck makes these breakfast bars so wholesome?” Properly, the components, my good friend! I’ve designed a wholesome breakfast bar that packs within the healthiest components with out sacrificing on taste. Have a look for your self:
- Oats: oats are a longtime favourite in my household. They’re fiber-rich, heart-healthy and maintain you delightfully common [1]. Sorry, needed to say it!
- Bananas: bananas are a naturally candy fruit that lend taste and scrumptious health-benefits to your wholesome breakfast bars! Suppose: 33% of your each day RDI (really useful each day consumption) of Vitamin B6, amongst different vitamins. Suppose: antioxidant-rich and fiber-rich [2].
- Flaxseed, Walnuts, Pumpkin Seeds: the powerhouse trifecta of wholesome fat which might be low in carbs and wealthy in vitamins.
- Pure, Unsalted Peanut Butter: Typically peanut butter can get a foul rap–primarily as a result of most store-bought peanut butter merchandise are literally “spreads” which include loads of added sugar, oils, and different components. Conversely, pure, unsalted peanut butter incorporates simply 1 ingredient: peanuts. With 1/4 cup of pure peanut butter for the entire recipe, you’ll get simply the correct amount of filling, satisfying, heart-healthy fat to maintain you going–with out the guilt.
A easy and simple recipe for wholesome breakfast bars which you can simply customise along with your favourite add-ins.
The place Can I Discover Wholesome Breakfast Cookies?
In case you’re hankering for breakfast cookies as an alternative of breakfast bars, take a look at just a few reader favorites beneath:
Substitutions & Customizing Your Breakfast Bars
Wanna know how you can make substitutions to your wholesome breakfast bars? How about how you can customise your breakfast bars to your liking? Learn on to search out out!
- Peanut Butter: sub with almond butter, cashew butter or sunflower seed butter. Different nut/seed butters will work, too. 🙂
- Coconut Oil: sub with vegan butter or different oil that you simply benefit from the taste & scent of.
- Vanilla Extract: sub with a smaller quantity of almond extract, or different extracts—simply be sure you don’t put an excessive amount of in, as some are a lot stronger than vanilla.
- Maple Syrup: sub with brown rice syrup, agave, or honey if not vegan.
- Flax Egg: sub with chia egg or common egg if not vegan. Study how you can make a flax egg right here.
- Seeds: I like utilizing pumpkin or sunflower seeds. Strive including the seeds that you simply like.
- Raisins or Dried Cranberries: sub with any dried fruit—simply be certain to cut it finely so no large chunks make your breakfast bars crumbly.
- Walnuts: sub with any chopped nuts or extra dried fruit.
In search of extra simply customizable breakfast recipes? I’ve obtained you lined with my tremendous fluffy Vegan Buttermilk Pancakes, these candy and satisfying Apple Pie Breakfast Cookies, and my new breakfast obsession: Cereal Bars.
- Dough Blender: my #1 device for mashing bananas. And my what number of bananas Erik and I’ve mashed (in all probability 1,000s). This dough blender makes fast work of mashing your bananas into simply the suitable texture.
- Natural Pumpkin Seeds, No Added Sugar Dried Cranberries & Uncooked Walnuts: my favourite add-ins, from no bake granola bars to do-it-yourself granola and extra. The combo is deliciously candy, savory, tart and nutty. Yum!
That was simple peasy, lemon squeezy, amiright? 😉 Let me know when you strive my recipe within the feedback beneath—I really love listening to from you! Within the meantime, simply know that I’m so grateful that you simply’re right here, sharing in these fantastic baking adventures with me and your family members. ‘Til the following one…
Sending you all my love and possibly a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8-inch sq. baking pan with parchment paper or greased foil. Put aside.
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In a big bowl, add peeled banana. Utilizing a fork or dough blender (really useful), mash till clean. Add the remaining moist components: peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil, flax egg and vanilla. Whisk till nicely included.
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Add the dry components: oats, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Utilizing a rubber spatula, fold till nicely blended. Fold in seeds, dried fruit and walnuts.
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Pour this combination into the ready baking pan. Utilizing the rubber spatula, clean into a good layer.
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Bake for 12-18 minutes, till simply evenly golden across the edges. Mine took quarter-hour. Cool for about 1 hour. Slice into bars. Get pleasure from! Storing directions beneath.
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Storing Directions: Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature or within the fridge for as much as 1 week.
