Blueberry Granola Bars
These easy no-bake blueberry granola bars are a perfect snack. With only about 10 minutes of prep, and no junky ingredients, you can have healthier homemade convenience food at your fingertips!
My kids absolutely love granola bars. They like the sweet oatmeal bars the best. The ones that are soft and chewy and have just a small amount of mix-ins, rather than being dominated by nuts and seeds. With back to school this month, I have been testing all kinds of granola bar recipes to try to come up with the perfect bar that is easy and delicious. This no bake blueberry granola bar is the winner!
These easy granola bars are a completely delicious combination of nutty rolled oats, almond butter, sweet honey, and tart dried blueberries, with just a hint of salt and vanilla. Mix it all together, press it into a pan, and you may never need to buy store bought granola bars again.
For more easy school snack recipes, try my pumpkin protein muffins and creamy homemade hummus.
You Will Love This
- These homemade granola bars are perfect for an easy school snack or lunchbox. Convenience food without all the yucky additives!
- This is a great base recipe for customizing, and can be used to make several different granola bar varieties.
- Blueberry granola bars freeze well, and can be made ahead and used one-by-one as needed.
Ingredients
To make these easy homemade blueberry granola bars, you need the following simple ingredients (exact measurements are in the recipe card below).
Ingredient Notes
- Rolled oats: Old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats will work, but do not use steel cut oats.
- Almond butter: You can substitute peanut butter, or sun butter for a nut free alternative.
- Honey: I would not substitute another sweetener, or the bars may crumble apart. The stickiness of the honey helps hold the bars together.
- Dried blueberries: Substitute any of your favorite mix-ins! You could try raisins or dried cranberries, mini chocolate chips, shredded coconut, pepitas or sunflower seeds, or chopped nuts.
Instructions
Top Tip: Cut the bars into as many portions as you like depending on how large of a bar you want. Make sure to store the bars in the refrigerator until you are ready to eat, or they may crumble apart.
Storage
These bars need to be stored in the refrigerator or freezer to keep their shape. If you store them at room temperature they will crumble and fall apart (although my five year old reports that it doesn’t matter if they crumble because the crumbles are still delicious).
To store these in the fridge or freezer, put a small piece of parchment paper or wax paper between each bar. Stack the bars in a freezer bag and push out the air to make the bag as airtight as possible. If you freeze the bars, pull them out as you need them and let them come to room temperature naturally (don’t microwave them).
Blueberry Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1/2 cup dried blueberries
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3/4 cup almond butter
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Mix all dry ingredients (oats, salt, blueberries and almonds) together in a large mixing bowl.
- In a separate mixing bowl, mix together honey, almond butter and vanilla until well incorporated. Pour the wet ingredients onto the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly with a spoon or spatula. The mixture will be thick and sticky, and it should take several minutes to mix it together by hand. Make sure all the oats are well covered.
- Line an 8x10 or 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper. Pour the mixture into the pan and press down hard to form the mixture into bars. Use the back of a measuring cup or clean hands with a light coat of olive oil to push down on the mixture. You want to compact the bars as much as possible.
- Put the pan in the refrigerator and let the bars cool for at least an hour. After the bars are fully cooled, remove them from the pan and cut into individual serving sizes.
So good. These only lasted two days! 🙂