Super easy Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars are kid approved and so simple to make. Just a few ingredients like oats, crisp rice cereal, honey, chocolate chips, and butter. Better than store bought granola bars!
One thing you should know about me is that I hate buying things I can make at home myself. If you look in my fridge you’ll find large jars of homemade Worcestershire that I made several years ago (it keeps indefinitely). There’s nothing like homemade, preservative free food for cooking and/or eating. Well, that’s my opinion anyway.
Enter granola bars. It’s easy to pick up the box at the store but it’s also really easy to make them at home. I mean, REALLY easy. The best part…there’s no need to read a label to figure out if it has tree nuts or gluten or whatever…you already know!
Ingredients you’ll need to make homemade chocolate chip granola bars
- Crispy rice cereal
- Quick cooking oats
- Honey
- Light brown sugar
- Unsalted butter
- Vanilla extract
- Miniature chocolate chips
Update: Cuz I know you’re dying to know. The kids both came home and said “those were the best granola bars ever”. It’s officially official now. 4 thumbs up! They are chewy, chocolaty and best of all, good for you. Writing this is making me hungry. Yep, I’m about to go eat another one.
I’ll have to get back to you with the “Kid Report” as they took off this morning with them in their lunches and I won’t know for several hours if they are winners in their eyes or not. I can tell you that the Hubs and I stood over the sink this morning eating them and there were lots of “mmmms” and “mmmhmms”.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 cups crispy rice cereal
- 2 ½ cups quick cooking oats
- ⅓ cup honey - local is best
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoons miniature chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Spray a 9×13 inch pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl add the crispy rice and oats and mix to combine. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan add the honey, brown sugar and butter and bring to a simmer. Heat for 3 minutes until it becomes syrupy and remove from heat. Add the vanilla and pour over the rice and oat mixture. Stir well to coat and pour into the prepared baking pan. Lay a piece of parchment over the pan and press the oat mixture down. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips and press down again.
- Bake at 200 for 25 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow to remain in the oven for 2 hours. Invert onto a cutting board and cut into bars. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.
Notes
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Heather is a recipe developer and content creator living in Vancouver, Washington. She started Farmgirl Gourmet in 2006, almost 20 years ago, as a way to share recipes with friends and family. Heather is also the co-founder of Spiceology , a unique spice company, which she started in 2013. She shares family friendly recipes for easy everyday meals with a gourmet twist.
I really love this recipe and hope you will too!
This recipe is fantastic! I have made them multiple times for my children’s snacks & Cub Scout bake sales. Much better than the store options and safer for my son’s peanut allergy! I have changed up ingredients, thrown in shredded unsweetened coconut, ground flax seed and sometimes ground up half of the oatmeal for a different texture.
Can you just use all quick oats instead of the cereal?
If you use coconut oil instead of butter they will stay together better!
how much did you use?
Can I make extra and freeze them
I made them twice and they crumbled. Any suggestions on how to make them stay together? They are so yummy, I really want them to work!
Mine fell apart 🙁
Do you make your own vanilla extract?
Yes I do Eileen. I hate throwing vanilla beans away after scraping the seeds, so I toss them in bourbon or vodka and make my own extract.
love these… But mine fall apart? any ideas? I follwed the recpie correctly,,,,
I had the same problem. I just turned mine into granola and ate it by the handful!
Oh no! I guess I better make them again and tweak the ingredients. Mine were fine. Granola sounds good too though. 🙂 Sorry it didn’t work out and thanks for letting me know.
These are AMAZING!!! we can’t keep them around for more than a couple of days! Do you have the nutritional info on them possibly?
Hi Brooke…that is awesome news!! I don’t have the nutritional info but you can use sites like SparkPeople which has a recipe calculator – http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp Hope that helps. Glad they are a hit!!! 🙂
Hello! What a fabulous idea! My two year old LOVES his granola bars, so I’m dying to make him these. Just one question….would these be freezable? Thanks!