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    Healthy Breakfast Bars {gluten-free}

    Dec 2, 2022 · 9 Comments

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    These Healthy Breakfast Bars are made with nutritious ingredients like rolled oats, ground flaxseed, Greek Yogurt and eggs. They're soft-baked, mouth-wateringly delicious and will keep you going all morning long. And did I mention chocolate?? These breakfast bars have the perfect hint of sweetness too. Bake a batch today!

    Healthy Breakfast Bars come to the morning rescue!

    These soft-baked healthy breakfast bars are the near-perfect bite to start your morning.

    Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate in a plastic container on a wood cutting board.

    When you find a breakfast bar that isn't shellacked in sugar like so many other granola bars out there, it's truly a cause for celebration.

    These oatmeal bars are filled with healthy carbs, a hit of protein and a taste of chocolate to boot.

    When you first go gluten-free, it can be hard to get your head around what to eat in the morning.

    Two square of gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate on a wood cutting board.
    These breakfast bar will rise a bit during baking and aren’t hard and crunchy like typical store bought granola bars.

    Combine that with the fact that you've got like all of 5 minutes to eat something, you need a breakfast that's gluten-free, healthy and easy.

    If you have some time on the weekend, make a batch of these breakfast bars and you'll always have something nutritious to eat.

    Check out these healthy and gluten-free muffins and breads that could totally fuel your morning too:

    • Healthy Gluten Free Banana Bread with White Beans
    • Healthy Cranberry Oatmeal Muffins
    • Healthy Zucchini Bread (Delicious and Gluten Free)
    • Almond Flour Banana Muffins with Oats (Healthy Recipe)

    📝Ingredients for healthy oatmeal breakfast bars

    • Gluten Free Oats - my go-to brand is Only Oats
    • Gluten Free Flour Blend - I use Bob Red Mill's
    • Ground flax seed
    • Brown sugar
    • Unsweetened applesauce
    • 1 banana, mashed
    • Eggs
    • Greek Yogurt
    • Vanilla extract (optional)
    • Cinnamon
    • Baking soda
    • Salt
    • Chocolate chips - I love a semi-sweet mini chocolate chip for this recipe like these ones but you can really use any kind you have in the house
    Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate on a grey napkin
    The fibre from the oatmeal and ground flaxseed in these bars make them healthy and with a some protein boost from the Greek yogurt and eggs, they'll keep you satisfied for hours.

    🥣How to make healthy breakfast bars

    Here's the high-level steps to make these healthy breakfast bars:

    A mixing bowl with a whisk creaming applesauce and brown sugar together.
    1.
    Mixing bowl with bananas, eggs, and greek yogurt.
    2.
    1. Pre-heat your oven and mix together the applesauce and the brown sugar.

    2. Add bananas, eggs, yogurt and vanilla.

    A mixing bowl filled with flour, ground flaxseed, cinnamon, salt, baking soda.
    3.
    A mixing bowl filled with the batter for Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate.

    3. In a separate large bowl, combine flour, ground flax seed, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.

    4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined. Add chocolate chips and oats and stir.

    A large baking pan filled with Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate ready for oven.
    5.
    A large baking pan filled with Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate just out of the oven.
    6.

    5. Spread the mixture into a prepared 13x9" pan.

    6. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 22-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

    💃Variations

    Here's a couple swaps to make if you're looking to change it up:

    • Flours - you can substitutes about ½ of the 1:1 Gluten-Free flour for oat flour. Your breakfast bars will be slightly chewier as a result. If you want to use coconut flour in this recipe, for goodness sakes, proceed with caution. Just replace about ⅓ of the 1:1 flour with coconut flour. Coconut flour soaks up moisture like crazy so you have to watch it when you put it in baked goods
    • Dried fruit - instead of chocolate chips, you could throw some dried fruit in the batter, like dried cranberries
    • Applesauce - this recipe calls for unsweetened, plain applesauce but if you have another flavour of applesauce (also unsweetened) give it a try. I've used a peach flavour before and it worked great
    • Frozen bananas - I've made these granola bars so many times and they're a great way to use up those frozen bananas in your freezer. Just defrost the frozen bananas in the microwave and drain any excess water that comes off them after defrosting. Then use in the granola bars as per the instructions.

    🔪Equipment

    All you need for this healthy granola bar recipe is a 13x9" baking pan, a couple of mixing bowls, measuring cups and measuring spoons, and a whisk and / or large spoon for mixing the ingredients.

    Close-up of Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate with parchment paper.
    These are soft, chewy and filling healthy breakfast bars. The mini chocolate chips work great for a hint of sweetness too!

    🥡Storage and Freezing

    These healthy breakfast bars freeze beautifully.

    After bringing the pan out of the oven, let them cool. Then cut the bars into approximately 24. Wrap the bars in parchment paper and freeze either in an air-tight container or in a Ziplock bag.

    Freeze for up to 3 months. Take out of the freezer the night before you want to enjoy them and thaw on the counter at room temperature.

    Hope you love these healthy oatmeal breakfast bars like we do❣️

    ~April

    PS. Looking for more healthy and yummy snack recipes?

    Check these recipes out:

    • Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Energy Bars
    • Healthy Gluten-Free Granola
    • Healthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Raspberry Breakfast Bites (gluten-free)
    • Puffed Quinoa Bars with Almond Butter

    This post was originally published on February 20th, 2020. Updated copy and re-published on December 2nd, 2022.

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    Two Gluten-Free Oatmeal Breakfast Bars with Chocolate on a wood cutting board

    Healthy Breakfast Bars (gluten-free)

    These Healthy Breakfast Bars are made with nutritious ingredients like rolled oats, ground flaxseed, Greek Yogurt and eggs. They're soft-baked, mouth-wateringly delicious and will keep you going all morning long.
    5 from 3 votes
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    Course: Breakfast, Snack
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: breakfast, gluten free, granola bar, snack
    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 20 minutes
    Cooling time: 10 minutes
    Total Time: 40 minutes
    Servings: 24 bars
    Calories: 145kcal
    Author: April Saunders

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup brown sugar, packed
    • ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
    • ½ cup mashed banana (1 medium)
    • 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1.5 cups gluten-free flour like Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Baking Flour
    • ¼ cup ground flax seed
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • 2 cups gluten-free rolled oats
    • ½ cup chocolate chips optional

    Instructions

    • Heat oven to 350º F (180º C) and line a 13x9" (33 cm x 23 cm) baking pan with parchment paper.
    • Combine brown sugar and applesauce together by hand until in a medium bowl.
    • Add banana, yogurt, eggs and vanilla. Whisk by hand to combine.
    • In a separate large bowl, combine flour, ground flax seed, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
    • Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined.
    • Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
    • Spread dough onto the prepared 13 x 19 inch (33 cm x 48 cm) baking pan.
    • Bake in the pre-heated oven for 22-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
    • Cool on a rack in the pan for about 15 minutes. Once cooled, cut into 24 bars.

    Notes

    This recipe makes a lot!
    These bars freezer well for up to 1 month.
    I usually freeze ½ the recipe - wrapped in parchment paper, in an air-tight container.
     

    Nutrition

    Calories: 145kcal

    More Gluten-Free Breakfast Recipes

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    1. Juanita says

      April 22, 2020 at 7:08 am

      In your recipes, what kind of chocolate chips do you use? Semi sweet? Dark?

      Reply
      • April says

        April 22, 2020 at 5:29 pm

        Great question..typically, I'll use dark chocolate chips, Chipits brand probably? But lately, I've got these vegan dark chocolate "chunks" from Bulk Barn and I don't know exactly what it is about them but they are amazing. I got them for this recipe - Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Energy Bars (just to be able to be truly "vegan") and now we always get them. I'll give them a rough chop up before throwing into a muffin recipe though.

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    2. Juanita says

      April 22, 2020 at 9:06 am

      5 stars
      I made theses this morning for my family and they LOVED them! Me too. This recipe makes a big batch - how handy!! I’m gonna pop half in the freezer for later.

      Reply
      • April says

        April 22, 2020 at 5:26 pm

        Yay!! So glad to hear it 🙂 Love the freezer idea. Thanks Juanita! 🙂

        Reply
    3. Toni mischeff says

      December 16, 2020 at 5:50 am

      The very good recipe I m excited to eat
      Maintain a healthy weight by eating roughly the same number of calories that your body is using. Limit intake of fats, Eat at least 400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day. primehealthblog.com

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      • April says

        December 18, 2020 at 4:39 pm

        Thanks Toni!

        Reply
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    5. Michelle says

      January 02, 2022 at 2:59 pm

      5 stars
      Love these for school lunches!

      Reply
      • April says

        January 02, 2022 at 7:09 pm

        Thanks for commenting, Michelle! Agree! We love them for lunches too 🙂

        Reply

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