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Banana Bread Granola Bars

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These Banana Bread Granola Bars are a gluten free and vegan snack that tastes just like the classic baked treat!

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup natural peanut butter, almond butter, or nut butter of choice
  • 1 banana, mashed/pureed
  • 1/2 tsp.+ cinnamon
  • splash pure vanilla extract
  • pinch salt (optional)
  • additional sweetener (optional)*
  • 1 and 1/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1/4 – 1/2 cup raisins, plus more for topping

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a bread loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
  2. Melt your nut butter in a glass bowl in the microwave until it is easily mixable and drippy**. Allow to cool slightly, then add pureed banana, cinnamon, vanilla and optional salt and sweetener. Mix well to combine.
  3. Add oats and mix to combine. The mixture should form a ball, but it should not be too wet or dry. If it’s too wet, add more oats. If it’s too dry, add a bit more nut butter. Mix in the raisins. Taste, and adjust seasoning/sweetness if necessary.
  4. Scoop mixture out into prepared loaf pan. Press down so that your granola bar mixture is flat. Top with additional raisins if desired.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and keep granola bars in the pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and parchment paper and place on a cooling rack to cool completely. Cut into bars and serve!

Notes

*When I made these bars, the only sweet ingredients were banana and raisins, so they’re not very sweet. One of my taste-testers said that these bars needed more sweetness. My other taste-testers believed the amount of sweetness was sufficient because they are more “snack” bars, rather than “dessert” bars.

If you DO add an additional sweetener, you may need to adjust the dry and wet ingredients in order to obtain the correct consistency.

**My nut butter (peanut butter, obv) was already in this state, so I skipped this step.

Find it online: https://www.fooduzzi.com/2015/06/banana-bread-granola-bars/

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