A great grab-and-go breakfast these Chewy Banana Nut Granola Bars are a quick and delicious treat that take one of your favorite breads and makes them into something amazing.
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Happy Friday my lovelies!! Are you ready for the big game this weekend? Got all your appetizers picked out and game faces on? We are planning on having some friends over and obviously eating massive amounts of delicious food.
Appetizers are hands down my favorite type of food to devour. So I’m making a meal based on all finger foods. But since I have a glutinous weekend ahead of me I wanted to close out this week with a semi healthy recipe for Chewy Banana Nut Granola Bars!
So we went to Vegas about a year ago and I ran into Walgreens to grab a quick snack so I could continue on with our endless walking. I have been in search of that snack ever since.
It was dumb of me not to remember what it was! I have had cravings ever since. So finally I decided to just make something similar myself.
What I DID know about the bar was that it was banana flavor and it was a type of granola bar. Since banana is like one of my all time fave fruits to bake with I had no problem there.
This Chewy Banana Nut Granola Bar recipe is like banana bread in bar form. Seriously delicious and addicting. I can’t keep my hands off these puppies. Whiping up in mere minutes with a little cooling time makes this recipe easy peasy!
Chewy Banana Nut Granola Bars
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups quick oats
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup butter chopped small
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 ripe bananas mashed
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 350.
- Line a 8x8" pan with tin foil sprayed with cooking spray.
- Place your oats on a cookie sheet and toast in oven for about 10 minutes, stirring halfway through. Transfer to bowl.
- Meanwhile in small saucepan combine your honey, butter, brown sugar, vanilla and bananas.
- Heat over medium heat until the butter is completely melted and sugar dissolves.
- Pour over your oats and stir to combine.
- Fold in your chopped walnuts.
- Press into prepared pan and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Cut into bars and enjoy!
Nutrition
Tornadough Alli is not a nutritionist or dietitian, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and nutritional value is important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and values can vary depending on which brands were used.
Sandhya
Hey, I don’t want to add brown sugar is there any replacement for that?
Tornadough Alli
Depending on the reasoning on not wanting to use the brown sugar there could be a variety of alternatives. If it is for diet like low carb or keto, you can use any replacement sweetener like brown erythritol, truvia brown sugar blend, etc. You can use turbinado sugar, coconut sugar, regular sugar, etc. The brown sugar in the recipe helps with flavor and binding to hold these together. I hope this helps, if you could let me know the reasoning behind wanting to leave it out, I could hopefully give you a more direct answer.
Sherry
Can you store on counter? How long do they keep?
Tornadough Alli
Yes you can, make sure they are covered. They should last 2-3 days.
Angela
Sunbelt bakery banana bars. I buy these for my sun. Sounds like them
Darlene
I added half steel cut oats and half quick oats, also when butter mixture was melted and I took it off the heat I added vanilla protein powder. So delicious! Will definitely make these again with add ins such as more flavours of protein powder, nuts and dried fruits.
Lindsay
These look AMAZING! thanks so much for sharing at #funtasticfriday!
Tornadough Alli
Thanks Lindsay! Happy to share 🙂
Carol
Oh my goodness these look delicious. I’m always searching out recipes for those last 2 over ripe bananas sitting on the counter. Can’t wait to try these. Found you on Melt In Your Mouth Monday-boy am I glad I did!
Carol
Helen Fern
Thanks for sharing on the “Whats for dinner” linky!
Sonal
Alli
I am so going to make these!!! Pinning!