These easy Homemade Granola Bars are perfect as a morning or afternoon snack any time of year. These oats and honey bars are made with your own fresh ingredients and they are made with a no-bake granola bar recipe.

Oats and Honey Bars homemade granola bars on wood board.

If you have ever wondered how to make homemade granola bars, trust me, they are easier than you think. These chewy granola bars are healthy oat bars that you can make at home

If you have been around a while you know that I make breakfast bars from time to time and these are one of my favorites yet. Chewy and delicious and easily changed up to your family's liking.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

These tasty oat and honey bars are great for a quick breakfast or lunchbox snack. Like my granola with honey recipe, they are ready in minutes.

This is my favorite granola bar recipe. These are better than the bars you find at the grocery store and have fewer preservatives too.

It's a fun way to make your own healthy snacks. You can control the ingredients and won't have any added preservatives.

Today’s recipe is very versatile. This baked granola bar recipe calls for chocolate chips and cranberries, but you can easily change it up to add raisins, coconut flakes, or different chips.

These are SO EASY to make too! Delicious honey oat bars packed with flavor and goodness.

Oat Honey Bar Ingredients

Honey - This granola bar recipe is made with honey and I like to use pure honey.

Oatmeal – You will want to use old fashioned oats for this, do not use quick oats

Brown Sugar – I used light brown sugar because that is what I had in my pantry, Dark brown sugar works well too.

Dried fruit –I used cranberries for this recipe for color and flavor, but you can use raisins instead (or in addition) if you like.

Chocolate Chips - I use semi-sweet chocolate chips, but you can use dark chocolate chips, white chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips if desired.

Variations, Notes, and Substitutions

You can add ⅓ cup of the following seeds (shell removed) to the recipe:

sunflower seeds
chia seeds
pumpkin seeds
flax seeds
sesame seeds
unsweetened coconut

You can also add ¾ cups of Rice Krispies cereal to these to change them up.

You can add ½ cup of chopped walnuts or toasted pecans while preparing.

Homemade granola bars with honey are very popular, but if you want to make this a granola bar recipe without honey, you can substitute maple syrup or molasses. It will change up the taste a little.

How to Make Homemade Honey Oat Granola Bars

The full recipe is below, but the steps are simple:

Toast almonds and oatmeal.
Combine the butter and brown sugar.
Add vanilla and salt and blend.
Pour the butter mixture over the oatmeal mixture.
Add cranberries and chocolate chips.
Pour granola bar mixture in a prepared pan. Spread with a spatula. Chill.
Cut chilled oat mixture into bars with a sharp knife.

Prepare pan with waxed paper or parchment paper so it is easy to remove.

When oats and honey mixture has cooled, you can cut into bars or squares.

Pro Tips and Timesaver Shortcuts

You can keep the ingredients in a mason jar ready to go and prepare when you want to make granola bars.
Store prepared bars in an airtight container to preserve freshness.

Serving and Storage Suggestions

Serve at room temperature.
Store in an airtight container.
Serve as a healthy party snack or take along on a picnic.

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