Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Bars + Bites (Gluten-Free)
These healthy oat bars are perfect as a grab-in-go breakfast. They're packed with peanut butter, banana, oatmeal and, most importantly, dark chocolate chunks. Make sure to buy gluten-free oats if you care about that sort of thing.
Servings 16 bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed over-ripe mashed banana from about 2 ½ bananas
- 1 cup almond milk I used vanilla
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 large egg
- 2 cups gluten-free rolled oats
- ½ cup gluten-free oat flour see note
- 1 ¼ teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1/4 cup roughly chopped dark chocolate or chips preferably 70 percent cacao
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8 inch baking pan or 2 mini muffin tins (I did one dozen mini muffins and made a half portion of bars in a loaf pan).
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the banana, almond milk, maple syrup, peanut butter and egg; whisk until smooth.
- In a second medium bowl, stir together the oats, oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt until well combined.
- Fold the dry ingredients into the wet and mix until just incorporated. Stir in the chocolate. Transfer to the prepared pan(s). If using the muffin tins, add a scant tablespoon to each cup.
- Bake in the oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Allow to cool in the pan.
- I like these best served warm. Otherwise, store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week of easy breakfasts and snacking.
Notes
You can make your own oat flour by pulsing rolled oats in a food processor until finely ground into meal.
Nutrition
Serving: 16g