For a wholesome pre- or post- exercise snack, strive these selfmade vitality bars with peanut butter, banana, and oats! Just like granola bars, they’re simple to make with solely 5 elements, and so they’re excessive in protein, fiber, and wholesome carbs to offer you that enhance of vitality you want.
The opposite day, I had a cooking disaster in an try to make wholesome “cookies.”
Properly, disaster could also be sort of a robust phrase. As a result of out of it was born these tremendous tasty, tremendous wholesome peanut butter and banana vitality bars with solely 5 elements! Right here’s the story.
I acquired it in my head that I wished to be “wholesome” despite the fact that I used to be craving a cookie one thing fierce.
So, I attempted making these two-ingredient “cookies” you at all times see on Pinterest… you recognize, those made solely from mashed bananas and oats?
I’m telling you proper now: bananas and oats don’t a cookie make.
In order for you a cookie, do NOT try this, no matter you do. To future Elizabeth: once you need cookies, simply make them! With BUTTER. And FLOUR.
Like these spicy ginger date cookies. Or these orange chai spice cookies.
However, like I mentioned earlier than, I did study one thing from the expertise! Whereas my two-ingredient experiment didn’t style something just like the cookies I used to be craving, they didn’t style dangerous.
They really had a fluffy, banana bread-ish texture despite the fact that it had no flour (since bananas agency up after they bake and act as a binding agent). They have been moist, identical to banana bread, and considerably candy, from the pure sugars within the banana.
After which my meals blogger mind acquired to pondering: this may make an excellent vitality bar!
With some modifications, after all. That is Bowl of DELICIOUS, in spite of everything, not Bowl of “Eh, not dangerous.” And these bars are undoubtedly scrumptious.
However I DID whip up these scrumptious and wholesome breakfast cookies as effectively, full of dried fruit and oats. Yum.
What makes these peanut butter and banana oat bars wholesome?
These granola bars have solely 5 wholesome, pure elements: bananas, peanut butter, oats, nuts/seeds, and honey.
Throw a bit cinnamon/vanilla/different spices in there too, should you’re feeling loopy.
Possibly even some chocolate chips! YUM.
They’re packed stuffed with carbs, wholesome fat, and protein, with nothing acidic or too flavorful to trigger indigestion whereas understanding, and they’re going to maintain you full and glad for a very long time.
They’re the PERFECT pre-hike/pre-run/pre-workout snack. WAY higher than a Energy Bar, for certain!
The best way to make peanut butter, oat, and banana vitality bars
They’re really easy to make. Simply combine some the elements with a mixer (I exploit my KitchenAid mixer), unfold in a baking dish, and bake.
- First, combine mashed banana, oats, peanut butter, sliced almonds, and a few honey (and vanilla extract and cinnamon for further credit score) with a standing or hand mixer. The dough can be fairly thick.
- Line a baking dish with parchment paper and unfold the dough in as evenly as attainable
- Bake and slice!
One essential word: ensure you enable to chill utterly earlier than you narrow into it, in any other case it could disintegrate.
Suggestions and Tips
- For ripe bananas everytime you need them, retailer very ripe extras in your freezer. Whenever you need to use them, simply microwave for one minute, peel, and you’ve got completely delicate, ripe bananas for baking.
- For a peanut butter substitute– you possibly can substitute almond butter or one other nut butter. I generally make my very own peanut butter- it’s SO EASY.
- As a substitute of sliced almonds– you need to use any mixture of nuts and/or seeds you need. Pecans, peanuts, or different nuts, along with seeds akin to sunflower, flax, or pumpkin seeds can be utilized as effectively.
- For a nut-free model, you possibly can simply substitute the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter, and the sliced almonds with sunflower and pumpkin seeds.
Use no matter you could have in your pantry to make it simple!
What do these vitality bars style like?
These vitality bars are sort of like granola bars, however have a bread-ier, fluffier texture to them. They aren’t as crunchy as your conventional granola bars.
Actually, they style very very like a dense banana bread.
They’re moist, they bind collectively effectively, and they’re candy and salty from the peanut butter and honey. They keep good at room temperature for per week, they’re cheap to make, and are freezable.
And better of all, they provide you an enormous enhance of vitality from all-natural, actual elements. They’re good not just for earlier than understanding, however for a snack at work, for a breakfast on the go, or for highway journeys with hungry children.
Or highway journeys with hungry adults.
Talking of highway journeys, right here is the true cause why I made these! Zach and I are driving to Maine tomorrow and are planning on bringing these vitality bars for snacking on for the 4 hour drive.
We’re additionally going snowshoeing! These vitality bars can be nice to deliver with us on our trek within the wilderness.
If we get stranded, not less than we could have snacks.
Different recipes with bananas and oats
- DIY no bake chewy granola bars
- The best way to make your personal immediate oatmeal packets
- Cardamom coconut granola
- Wholesome Banana Bread made with olive oil
- Blueberry, banana, and oat muffins
Try all my appetizer and snack recipes right here.
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