No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Squares!
Well that title is a mouthful. 😉
These little beauties are one of the easiest recipes on this site - they require one bowl (it’s actually a pot) and no baking. Just melt the peanut butter, honey, and coconut oil over the stove, mix in all the rest of the ingredients, scoop it into a pan, shove it in the fridge - and you’re good!
It’s no secret that I eat a Lara Bar pretty much every day. I love them for their simple, whole ingredients, but I don’t love the pricetag! My favourite flavour is the Coconut Lara Bar - so I knew I wanted to take that inspiration and make my own coconut flavoured snack bites! These No-Bake Coconut Energy Bites are inspired by Lara Bars, but are in no way supposed to be a copycat recipe.
I’ve paired coconut, dates, and cashews (the three sole ingredients in Coconut Lara Bars) with a few other nuts for a fuller flavour, and also added in my favourite spices - cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. The result is a sweetly spiced coconut energy ball - they make a great breakfast to-go and also a wonderful afternoon snack.
Dudes. These. are. the. best.
The best as in I may have already inhaled 3 granola bars today. And one before I got around to snapping the photos (see how there’s only 5 bars in the pictures?!)
I have a granola bar addiction. I have granola bars stashed in my desk drawer at work, in our cupboard at home, and often I’ll throw one in my purse. You never know when hunger might strike - and since I turn into the grouch when I’m hungry, they’ve saved me on many occasions!
I have a little notebook where I jot down recipes that are given to me by friends on scraps of paper, or from colleagues on post-it notes. Cooking is a favourite conversation subject of mine, so inevitably someone is always giving me a recipe to try. 😉
These Simple Homemade Granola Bars are a recipe given to me by a friend, during the time after university when I was single and learning how to cook for myself. (It was also during the time where me and said friend would get together for ‘Sex and the City’ parties, where we drank Cosmopolitans and watched through the six seasons together.)
So these granola bars really deserve to be called Laurel’s Granola Bars.