Healthy Vegan Oat Bars! Get ready to make your taste buds do the happy dance with our Healthy Vegan Oat Bars – where deliciousness meets guilt-free snacking!
Packed with nutrient-rich ingredients, these Healthy Vegan Oat Bars are not only a delicious treat but also a satisfying snack to fuel your day. Whether you’re rushing out the door in the morning or need a pick-me-up during the day, these bars are the perfect solution to keep you energized until your next meal.
Whole Food Plant Based, Vegan, plant based, oil free, refined sugar free, no highly processed ingredients and gluten free.
Hi theres, Ameera here!
Discover why these Healthy Oat Bars stole Dad’s heart! With their delightful light sweetness and perfectly textured oats, these bars are a surefire hit for anyone craving a wholesome and satisfying snack.
You gotta give this one a try!
Tips for Success:
- Flavor Profile: These Healthy Oat Bars are light and chewy with a drier texture. The oat flavor is prominent. The bars are lightly sweet, and the cinnamon flavor is barely there, but still delicious.
- Medjool Dates: Medjool dates are naturally very soft and pliant. They work perfectly with this recipe because of this. If you have very dry dates, consider placing them in a bowl, cover with boiling water, and allow to sit for 10 minutes. Discard the water, and place into the food processor at the appropriate time. If you soaked the Medjool Dates, perhaps consider starting with less dates as the hold water and could make for a gooier dough than anticipated.
- Medjool Dates – Food Processor: The food processor will chop the dates nicely. The chopped dates will tend to form a ball once thoroughly chopped. This is fine, once you add the remaining wet ingredients, they will disperse throughout the liquids. If you see large clumps of dates sticking together once the other wet ingredients have been added and processed, manually break them up and process again.
- Health Benefits of Dates: Date are packed with wonderful health benefits, everything from improving gut health to boosting brain health, improving skin and aids in preventing some chronic diseases as they are full of fiber, copper, magnesium, manganese, potassium, and Vitamin B6.
- Cashew Butter Substitutions: You can replace the cashew butter with almond butter or other seed or nut butters with the expectation that the flavor and texture may change accordingly. We have kitchen tested almond butter which was delicious. We have not tested other substitutions.
- Cinnamon: Not all cinnamon is created equal. Some brands of cinnamon are light and passively flavored while others are strong, sharp, and astringent. Use judgement. You can use your favorite cinnamon in this recipe; however, we strongly suggest starting on the low end until you have a good understanding of how the cinnamon that you are using in this recipe impacts the flavor. Feel free to ramp up the cinnamon if you wish.
- Parchment Paper Liner: Line the baking dish with parchment paper to cover the bottom, allow excess paper to go up two of the sides and hang over the edge for easy removal of the oat bars.
- Removal from Pan: Make sure you run a sharp knife all along the edges of the pan where the parchment paper isn’t covering the edges to ensure that the bars don’t stick to the sides when lifting it from the pan.
Leftovers and Freezing:
Leftovers will generally keep 4 to 5 days. Store in a covered container.
These bars freeze well.
Pantry Products:
- Cashew Butter: We used Artisana Organic Raw Vegan Cashew Butter. Feel free to use your favorite raw cashew butter in this recipe. Read the label, make sure the only ingredient is raw cashews. Do not use a salted or sweetened cashew butter.
- Molasses: We used Grandma’s Unsulfured Original Molasses. Feel free to use your favorite molasses. We do not recommend black strap molasses. You can leave the molasses out of the dish if you wish. The molasses adds excellent depth of flavor and is reminiscent of brown sugar.
- Sea Salt: Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.
Kitchen Equipment:
- Food Processor
- 8 x 8 baking pan
- Parchment paper
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PrintHealthy Oat Bars
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Cook Time: 24-25 Minutes
- Total Time: 35 Minutes
- Yield: 9 Bars 1x
- Category: Dessert, Breakfast
- Method: Oven
- Diet: Vegan
Description
Packed with nutrient-rich ingredients, these Healthy Vegan Oat Bars are not only a delicious treat but also a satisfying snack to fuel your day.
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 1 cup rolled oats, chopped
- 2 ½ cups rolled oats
- 2 Tablespoons flaxseed meal
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon *
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt *
Wet Ingredients:
- 6 Medjool dates *
- ¼ cup unsweetened plain plant milk
- 1/3 cup + 1 Tablespoon cashew butter *
- 1/3 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon molasses *
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Place the oven rack in the center position.
- Line an 8 x 8 baking pan with parchment paper with extra hanging over the edges for easy removal. Set aside.
- Place 1 cup of rolled oats into the food process, and pulse for 15 seconds, then place into a large bowl.
- Then add all the remaining Dry Ingredients into the large bowl with the chopped oats, whisk until well combined.
- Place the Medjool dates into the food processor and pulse until the dates are finely minced. Then add the remaining Wet Ingredients into the food processor with the minced Medjool dates and pulse until everything is homogenized.
- Place wet mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients, stir until everything is mixed well. Then place the mixture into the parchment lined 8 x 8 baking dish, smooth out carefully and press to really pack the mixture down.
- Place in a preheated oven and bake at 350 F for 24 to 25 minutes until set and the edges are pulling away from the sides of the pan and turn golden brown.
- Remove from the oven, allow to cool for at least 25 minutes, then score, cut, serve, and enjoy.
Notes
*Please reference the blog post for Tips for Success, Pantry Items Used, Storage and Freezing, and Kitchen Products Used.
*Sea Salt: Please adjust the sea salt based upon your family’s sea salt preferences and/or based upon dietary needs.
*Servings: 9
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Well of course I had to make these. I love oats! These turned out so good! A piece of this and a banana would be a perfect quick (got no time) breakfast.
Is also great with an afternoon coffee. ;o)
Hi there Sandra,
WOOO HOOOO!!! We are thrilled that you enjoyed this recipe. Thank you so much for taking time to leave us a fantastic review.
-Ameera and Robin