No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars! This delicious cookie recipe comes together in 10 minutes & is gluten-free & vegan-friendly! These are seriously the BEST No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Bars and they make such a fabulous afternoon snack. They combine the ever popular chocolate and peanut butter, which I just cannot resist, and they’re actually pretty healthy!
My 4 year old twins made these with very little help from me, so you know they really are easy! These No Bake Chocolate Oat Bars will give you a big dose of peanut butter, oats, and almonds, for an energy packed breakfast bar recipe. It’s a quick and simple recipe that you can make the night before, so you have them ready to go for breakfast. But with half a cup of butter and TWO full cups of refined sugar packed into traditional no bake bar recipes, they’re really not even close!
These clean chocolate oatmeal no bake bars offer the perfect healthy alternative: No-bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies and I have a bit of a special relationship. I love how easy they are to make, and how rich the chocolate and peanut flavors can be. A “lightened up” version of those classic chocolate oatmeal no bake bars everyone loves so much
Makes 16 to 20 bars
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
½ cup brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 cups rolled oats
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup dark chocolate chips
¾ cup chunky peanut butter