Crunchy Granola Bars
5 from 6 votes
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 24 bars
Nutrition
Calories: 180kcal | Carbohydrates: 25.7g | Protein: 4.2g | Fat: 6.7g
A crunchy, sweet granola bar made from oats, puffed rice, chocolate chips, and dried cranberries. These bars have protein powder mixed in as well to increase the protein load.
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Ingredients
- 5 cups (400 g) oats
- 3 cups (51 g) puffed rice cereal
- ½ cup (112 g) melted coconut oil
- 2 scoops (64 g) vanilla whey protein powder
- 1 cup (240 ml) maple syrup
- 3 tsp (12 ml) vanilla
- 1 tsp (3 g) salt
- ½ cup (60 g) dried cranberries
- ¼ cup (56 g) mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- In a large bowl mix the salt, oats, and oil. Pour onto a baking sheet and bake until toasted, about 15 minutes stirring every couple of minutes.
- While the oats are baking, stir together the syrup, whey, and vanilla until the whey is dissolved.
- Mix the oats, puffed rice, cranberries, and syrup mixture together.
- Line a sheet pan with foil and spray with oil. Pour the mixture into the pan and press firmly. Add a layer of wax paper over the top before you press to keep your hands clean. The sheet pan should be a standard size ideally with a lip. If you have a smaller sheet pan you’ll probably end up with chewy bars.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes and remove from oven. Cut into 24 bars while still warm.
Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: free, gluten free, under 10 ingredients, under 500 calories
NUTRITIONAL INFO FOR THE Crunchy Granola Bars
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Servings
Carbs
616.5g
Protein
101g
Fat
160g
Calories
4310 cals
This Post Has 11 Comments
Easy to make and delicious. I substituted peanut butter chips for chocolate chips as I can’t eat chocolate and they are still very good. Definitely recommend.
Thank you 🙌🙌
I’m a little confused is it 180 calories per bar or for 24 bars…
per granola bar
Hey,
would love to see your take on a high protein, protein bar. Can’t find any recipes online that I like.
Keep Up the great work!
They taste great, just one quick question on the sheet. Do you use half sheet size (18×13) size?
I had used that and couldn’t quite make it reach the edge of the pan when i went to flatten it.
Am I missing something or do the instructions never say what to do with the chocolate chips?
I am assuming you put the chocolate chips after spreading the combined mixture onto the baking sheet. Either that or throwing them on a couple minutes into it baking in the oven.
Just added this as my weekly snack it tastes amazing. I add the chocolate chips into the mixture and let it melt since it would make a mess trying to eat it days after when putting them onto the baking sheet directly.
We like the taste of these but mine always come out crumbly. What am I doing wrong?
These came out fantastic, though I’ll probably swap the maple syrup for simple syrup next time. Maple syrup is expensive. Can’t really argue with the results though, they taste great.