Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

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

Author: Heather Scholten

Easy chewy granola bars that are slightly sweet with bits of crispy rice cereal, oats and chocolate chips.

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Ingredients

  

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• 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

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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

Recipe adapted from Brown Eyed Baker.

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Heather Scholten

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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.