Healthy Homemade Granola Bar Recipe

Learn how to make your own homemade granola bar easily at home! Anyone can make these flavourful and delicious snacks that everyone will love.

Don’t bother buying store bought snacks anymore when you can make your own healthy version at home. It’s not hard to see when you walk into a grocery shop the overwhelming amount of quick convenient snack foods around.

While they might look and taste good, they generally aren’t very healthy and actually pretty pricey for what they are. They don’t fill you and leave you craving more!

If you want even more healthy homemade desserts here’s another 16 recipes you can check out!

Why Make Your Own Granola Bars?

There are so many reasons why you should make your own granola bars at home! Here are a few!

1. They are cheaper to make at home. Store bought granola bars actually cost a bit when compared to the amount you can make at home for the same price!
2. The ingredients are better. You don’t need to worry about artificial colours, flavours, bad oils, or sweeteners. You choose the ingredients which are just pure and simple.
3. You can make whatever flavour combinations you like! It’s so fun to change things up and mix in different dried fruits, nuts, essential oils or chocolate chips into them!
4. This recipe is easy to double up and freeze for easy convenient snacks later on!

Ingredients For Granola Bars

Here’s what you will need to make these delicious baked granola bars.

1. Oats: You can use whole or quick oats for this recipe. I go for organic oats as they aren’t so heavily sprayed.
2. Nut butter: You can use whatever nut butter you like! Wether it’s peanut butter, almond or I used ABC paste (Almond, Brazil nuts and Cashew).
3. Honey: Definitely want some sort of sweetener, honey or maple syrup are great natural sweeteners to use.
4. Sourdough Starter: It helps combine the mixture better and adds some nutrients from the sourdough. You can use discard for this recipe it does not need to be active since the baked good is not rising.
5. Sea salt: I love good old natural sea salt. Gives flavour and filled with minerals.
6. Vanilla: Adds a lovely taste.
7. Add ins: Whatever you like! You can do a mixture of chopped nuts, dried fruit or chocolate chips!
8. Dark Chocolate: (Optional) To add on top.

How To Make Granola Bars (Step by Step)

It’s so easy to make this homemade granola bar recipe, here’s how!

1. Preheat oven to 180c/ 355F.
2. In a large bowl combine the nut butter, honey, sourdough starter, vanilla and salt together.
3. Add the oats and then add your add ins, I did equal parts chocolate chips and cranberries.

4. Spread mixture onto a lined baking tray and press down with a spoon or spatula.

5. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes.

6. If you want to add dark chocolate on top melt your chocolate and butter in a double boiler, while granola bars are baking.

7. Pull granola bars out of the oven and pour melted dark chocolate on top (optional)

8. Allow to cool on the bench, or I placed mine in the fridge for half an hour.

9. Remove from baking tray and slice into 12-14 slices.

10. Place in an airtight container and store in the cupboard or fridge. See notes for storage options.

How To Store Granola Bars

There are several different ways you can store these homemade granola bars.

1. Store in an airtight container on the counter away from direct sunlight for about 5 days.
2. Store in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
3. Separate each slice with parchment paper and store in ziploc freezer bags or an airtight container in the freezer for a couple months.
   • To defrost take the amount you want and let it defrost at room temperature or in the fridge.

Muesli Bar (Granola Bar) Flavour Combinations

There are so many fun ways to flavour your homemade granola bars. Here are some more ideas!

1. Add 2 drops of pure essential oils like (peppermint, wild orange oil, or lemon).
2. Dried blueberries and chocolate chips
3. Thinly sliced orange peel and chopped almonds.
4. Add cacao to make a chocolate muesli bar.
5. Chopped pecans, maple syrup and chopped dates.

If you try this recipe and love it, I would love it if you could come back and give it 5 stars!

Questions And Answers

How long do muesli bars last?

Homemade granola bar can last up to 5 days on the counter in an airtight container. It can last several weeks in the fridge in a container or several months in the freezer.

Is it cheaper to make your own muesli bars?

It really does work out to be cheaper to make your own muesli bars at home. The ingredients are pure, and they are very easy to make. You can make a lot more muesli bars at a time at home, quickly and cost effectively.