Best 20 Chewy Granola Bars Recipes

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease one 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the oats, flour, baking soda, vanilla, butter or margarine, honey and brown sugar. Stir in the 2 cups assorted chocolate chips, raisins, nuts etc.
• Lightly press mixture into the prepared pan. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 18 to 22 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool for 10 minutes then cut into bars. Let bars cool completely in pan before removing or serving.

CHEWY NO BAKE GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix rolled oats, steel-cut oats, rice cereal, dried fruit, and almonds together in a large bowl.
• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat; add brown sugar, honey, and vanilla extract. Whisk until sugar is completely dissolved, about 2 minutes. Pour over oat mixture; stir to combine.
• Spread oat mixture into prepared baking dish. Press chocolate chips into top. Refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.

CHEWY HONEY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine the first 8 ingredients. In a small bowl, combine honey, butter and vanilla; pour over oat mixture and mix well. (Mixture will be sticky.), Press into a 13x9-in. baking pan coated with cooking spray. Bake 14-18 minutes or until set and edges are lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg, honey and vanilla. Whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in oats, Rice Krispies, nuts and, if desired, raisins or chocolate chips. , Press into a greased 13x9-in. pan. Bake until light brown, 25-30 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, combine the oats, rice cereal, coconut oil, honey, brown sugar, salt, and vanilla until evenly mixed.
• For chocolate chip, take ¼ of the oats mix and combine with chocolate chips. Stir until mixed.
• Move the mixture to a small baking dish.
• For Apple Cinnamon, take ¼ of the oats mix and combine with dried apples, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir until mixed.
• Move the mixture to a small baking dish.
• For Cherry Almond, take ¼ of the oats mix and combine with almonds and cherries. Stir until mixed.
• Move the mixture to a small baking dish.
• For Peanut Butter Crunch, take ¼ of the oats mix and combine with pretzels, peanut butter, and chocolate candies. Stir until mixed.
• Move the mixture to a small baking dish.
• Bake each bar mixture at 350°F (175°C) for 5-8 minutes.
• Let granola cool and then cut into desired bar shape.
• Enjoy!

CHEWY, NUTTY, HEALTHY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch square baking dish.
• Stir peanut butter and melted butter together in a bowl until smooth. Add brown sugar, honey, corn syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt; stir. Mix applesauce into peanut butter mixture.
• Combine oats and flour in a bowl; toss to coat oats with flour. Stir peanuts and raisins into oat mixture. Pour peanut butter mixture over the oat mixture; stir to coat completely. Spread mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Sprinkle chocolate chips over the top and continue baking until chocolate melts and edges begin to brown, about 5 minutes more. Spread melted chocolate chips with the back of a spoon or a rubber spatula to coat the top. Cool completely before cutting into bars.

CHEWY CHOCOLATE CHIP GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a large bowl, stir together the brown sugar, peanut butter, corn syrup, applesauce, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, stir together the oats, chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, cereal rings and wheat germ. Stir the dry ingredients into the peanut butter mixture until evenly coated. Press lightly into the prepared pan.
• Bake or 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until slightly golden. Cool in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

CHEWY FRUIT GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine oats, sugar, oat flour, salt and cinnamon; mix well. Stir in apricots, cherries, coconut, pecans and sunflower kernels; set aside., In another bowl, whisk together honey, butter, corn syrup, vanilla and water. Add the honey mixture to the fruit mixture; mix until crumbly. Pat into a lightly greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown on the edges. Cool in pan for 5 minutes., While still warm, cut into bars. Remove bars to a wire rack to cook completely. Wrap bars individually in plastic wrap or store in an airtight container with parchment paper separating layers.

(SUPER HEALTHY) CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Toast oats for 5 minutes in a dry skillet over medium heat. Let cool.
• In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients (including oats) and whisk together until well combined.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together wet ingredients until well blended.
• Add wet mixture to dry ingredients and blend gently until well moistened. Add any of the suggested additions now (see Step 8). Mixture should be moist but not too wet. If it seems too dry and crumbly, add a little more applesauce (by the spoonful).
• Line a 9in x 13in pan with parchment paper and press mixture into pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. Cut into bars while warm, but let cool completely before removing from pan.
• Suggested additions (add up to 2 cups of any of the following): chocolate chips, raisins (soaked in hot water for 10 minutes then drained), unsweetened shredded coconut, sunflower seeds (unsalted), pumpkin seeds (unsalted), dried fruit (like chopped apricots, cranberries), chopped toasted nuts.

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan; line bottom with parchment paper, and butter parchment. Set aside. In a large bowl, mix together the oats, brown sugar, flour, and baking soda. Stir in the pecans, raisins, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds, and wheat germ, and set aside.
• Place apricots in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the metal blade, and process until smooth, about 60 seconds. Add the butter, and process until smooth. With the machine running, add honey through the feed tube, processing until smooth. Transfer apricot mixture to bowl with oat mixture, and fold until thoroughly combined.
• Transfer mixture to prepared pan. Using a rubber spatula, press it firmly into bottom and edges of pan, and level the surface. Place in oven, and bake until golden, about 30 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack, and let cool completely.
• Invert onto a baking sheet, and lift to remove pan; peel off parchment paper. Reinvert onto a cutting board, and cut into 24 bars, each about 1 1/4 by 3 inches. Bars can be wrapped in waxed paper and stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 2 weeks.

LOW SODIUM CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• place all ingredients into large bowl and mix well.
• lightly grease a 9x13 pan.
• place ingredients into pan.
• press mixture so its nice and even and flat it will end up being abaout 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick.
• bake for 10 minute.
• remove and press mixture flat again.
• bake another 10 min and then remove from oven.
• at this point i usually press on it some more to make sure they are nice and packed.
• let bars cool then cut into small bar size portions and enjoy.
• keeps well in the fridge or on the counter in plastic wrap.

CHEWY VEGAN GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Spread pumpkin seeds, walnuts, almonds, oats, coconut, cacao nibs, and flaxseed meal in a single layer on the baking sheet.
• Bake pumpkin seed mixture in the preheated oven until toasted and fragrant, 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool completely, about 15 minutes.
• Lower oven temperature 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Spray a 9x12-inch baking dish with cooking spray and line with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on 2 sides. Spray parchment paper with cooking spray.
• Mix cooled pumpkin seed mixture, dried fruit, mini chocolate chips, and cinnamon together in a large bowl. Pour in brown rice syrup; mix well to combine. Pour into the prepared pan and press into an even layer with the back of a spoon or a small piece of parchment paper.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned on the edges, 17 to 20 minutes. Cool on a baking rack for 20 minutes. Slice into bars.

HEALTHY THICK CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 350°F Line an 8"x8"x2" pan with parchment paper. Lightly grease the parchment paper and the exposed pan or coat with a non-stick spray.
• Stir together all the dry ingredients, including the fruit and nuts. In a separate bowl, whisk together the vanilla, melted butter or margarine, liquid sweeteners, water, and nut butter until smooth. Toss the wet incredients witht eh dry until the mixture is evenly curmbly. Spread in the prepared pan, pressing them in firmly.
• Bake the bars for 28-35 minutes, until they're lightly browned on the edges. They will still sem soft and underbaked when you press the centre. Let cool fully before cutting in to squares with the serrated knife. I sometimes put them in the freezer befor cutting so the cut smoothly.
• Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator or in the freezer.
• *My favorite add ins are dried cherries, chocolate chips, pecans and seasme seeds. However you can add dried cranberries, apricots, apples, pears, walnuts, pistachios, sunflower seeds, coconut, or any other dried fruit or nuts. I sometimes even add protien powder or dried greens.

CHEWY BLUEBERRY SUNFLOWER SEED GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line an 8″ x 8″ pan with parchment paper, allowing it to go up the opposing sides (see first photo in blog post for reference). Coat the parchment paper with non-stick spray or lightly grease with butter or oil.
• In a large bowl, stir together the oats, brown sugar, oat flour, salt, sunflower seeds, coconut, and blueberries.
• In a small microwave-safe bowl, heat the sunflower seed butter and butter at 50% power until melted, about 30-40 seconds. Remove from microwave and stir in the maple syrup, light corn syrup, water, and vanilla extract.
• Pour wet ingredients over dry and toss until well-incorporated and evenly crumbly.
• Pour into baking dish and press very firmly and evenly with clean hands so that the bars mold to the shape of the pan.
• Bake for 30 - 40 minutes until set and golden-brown on top.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes. Place in refrigerator for an additional 30 minutes to help make sure the bars set. Remove from refrigerator and, using the parchment paper "handles," lift bars from baking dish and place onto a cutting board. Peel sides of parchment paper down and, using a sharp serrated knife, cut into 16 squares.
• Bars keep for 3 - 4 days at room temperature stacked in an airtight container.

CHEWY GRANOLA BARS VEGAN, GLUTEN FREE, EGG FREE, DAIRY FREE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil 9x13 baking pan.
• In large bowl, beat sugar and shortening until light and fluffy.
• Add honey, egg replace and vanilla. Beat until smooth.
• In medium bowl, combine flour, gar gum, salt and baking soda. Blend.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture. Mix until well combined.
• By hand mix in chocolate chips, nuts, rice cereal and oats.
• Press firmly into pan.
• Bake for 20 minutes, until brown.

GLUTEN FREE CHEWY PLAYGROUP GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Generously grease a 9x13 inch baking pan or a cookie sheet.
• In a large bowl, mix together the oats, brown sugar, flax seed, cinnamon, flour, raisins and salt. Make a well in the center, and pour in the honey, egg, oil and vanilla. Mix well using your hands. (*If mixture isn't sticking together add 1 teaspoon of Xanthum gum)Pat the mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the bars begin to turn golden at the edges. Cool for 5 minutes, then cut into bars while still warm. Do not allow the bars to cool completely before cutting, or they will be too hard to cut.

HOMEMADE CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease a 13x9-inch pan.
• In a large bowl combine brown sugar,peanut butter,corn syrup,margarine and vanilla,blend well.
• Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Press evenly into greased pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Cool 1 hour.
• Cut into bars.

SIMPLE CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix all ingredients except chocolate chips with fork until moistened (mixture wil be crumbly). Stir in chocolate chips.
• Press mixture into an ungreased 13x9x2" pan. Bake until center is set, 15 to 17 minutes. Cut into bars, about 3x1 1/2 ", while warm.

SOFT & CHEWY GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Cut butter into oats, sugar & wheat germ until it is crumbly.
• Stir in corn syrup & honey, mix till well combined.
• Stir in chocolate chips & coconut.
• Press into greased 8 x 8 pan.
• Bake at 350 for 20 - 25 minutes, till golden.
• Cool 15 minutes & cut into 16 bars.

CHEWY NO-BAKE GRANOLA BARS

Steps:

• Prepare a 9x13 pan with non-stick spray.
• In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients so they are ready for the hot sugar mixture.
• In a sauce pan, make sugar mixture. Combine brown sugar, corn syrup and optional molasses; bring to a full boil and allow to boil 1 MINUTE. Turn down heat and add peanut butter and vanilla, stirring quickly until smooth.
• Work quickly - pour the hot sugar mixture over dry ingredients and use two wooden spoons to thoroughly combine ingredients. Stir in chips LAST so they don't melt in the hot mixture.
• Press mixture very firmly into prepared pan. Keep pressing down until your bars are dense in order to keep them from crumbling later when you cut them.
• When cool, use a sharp knife to cut into 18 bars (1 cut lengthwise and then 9 cuts across).