Fall Harvest Healthy Granola Bars

4.67 from 6 votes

Fall Harvest Healthy Granola Bars

Packed with sweet, salty, chewy, and crunchy ingredients, these easy Fall Harvest Healthy Granola Bars are an ideal make-ahead snack to keep on hand for your busiest days.

Course Snacks

Cuisine American

Keyword easy granola bar recipe, healthy granola bars, homemade granola bars

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 12

Freezing Time 20

Total Time 27

Servings bars

Calories 183.5kcal

Author Blair Lonergan

Ingredients

2 cups old-fashioned oats (don’t use instant or quick-cooking oats!)
1 cup whole almonds, roughly chopped
½ cup pumpkin seeds
1 cup packed pitted Medjool dates
⅓ cup maple syrup
¼ cup creamy almond butter or peanut butter
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup dried cranberries

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spread oats, almonds and pumpkin seeds on a baking sheet with sides. Toast in the oven until slightly golden, about 12 minutes. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
Chop dates in a food processor in short bursts until you have a rough paste. Scrape into the bowl with the oat mixture.
Warm maple syrup, almond butter, and salt in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring to blend. Add to the bowl along with the dried berries. Mix well to evenly distribute the chopped dates.
Line an 8x8in pan with baking parchment so the paper hangs over the sides. Spoon the oat mixture into the pan and pack it down with the back of the spoon. Freeze for 20 minutes.
Lift the contents out of the pan and set on a cutting board. Cut into 16 bars. Store the bars in an airtight container for a few days or freeze for longer storage.

Notes

Recipe Variations -- Homemade Healthy Granola Bars:

Swap out the pumpkin seeds for sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, or sesame seeds;
Use raisins or chopped dried apricots instead of the dried cranberries;
Replace the almonds with chopped walnuts, pecans, pistachios, or peanuts!
Use creamy peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter, or any other nut butter of choice.

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