No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars

Easy and Healthy Breakfast Bar Recipe

Jumpstart your morning with these No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars! With a firm but chewy texture and a natural sweetness, they satisfy and energize. Oats, flax seed and peanut butter give them lasting power while dates, bananas and chocolate chips make them sweet, but not too sweet.

Did I mention they’re super easy to make? That’s breakfast perfection in my book.

Gluten-Free Bars with No Oil, No Granulated Sugar and No Baking

This simple breakfast bar recipe is so easy to put together. Just pop the ingredients in your food processor, blend, press into a pan and chill. It’s a grab and go breakfast you’ll be so in love with.

Since they’re made with oats, they’re gluten-free breakfast bars that still taste AMAZING. With no oil, granulated sugar or preservatives, they’re a healthy alternative to packaged options you’re used to grabbing.

Homemade CORE Bars

I created this recipe when we stopped being able to find our favorite CORE bars in stores. I was desperate to replace them because we were completely addicted! And after one bite, I knew it was a total success! Brandon and I eat at least two of these a day, and that’s showing restraint.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars Ingredients and Supplies:

(see the recipe card at the bottom of this post for measurements and details)

Ingredients:

• Rolled oats (old fashioned) – you could also use quick-cooking oats, if necessary, but the bars would have a finer, less oaty texture.
• Peanut butter (creamy or crunchy) – you could replace the peanut butter with almond butter, sunflower butter or a granola butter, if desired.
• Pitted dates – the dates add the perfect amount of sweetness and an amazing chew to the bars as well as help bind all of the ingredients together in bar form once blended.
• Banana – the banana adds a nice natural sweetness and moisture to these energy bars.
• Whole ground flaxseed meal – the flax adds beneficial nutrients and fiber to bars, but can be omitted.
• Dark chocolate chips – the combination of peanut butter and chocolate in these bars is so delicious, but you can certainly omit the chocolate or replace it with another mix-in like dried fruit or nuts.

Supplies:

• Food processor
• 8-inch square baking pan
• Parchment paper

How to Make No-Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars

• In a food processor, add the oats, peanut butter, dates, mashed banana and ground flaxseed meal.
• Pulse until the ingredients are well combined and stick together.
• Add the dark chocolate chips.
• Pulse a few times until they’re chopped a bit and evenly distributed.

• Line an 8×8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper.
• Press the mixture evenly into the baking dish. Press additional chocolate chips into the top of the mixture, if desired.
• Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or overnight. 

• Once the mixture is chilled and set, use the parchment paper to lift it from the baking dish and then cut the mixture into 8 or more even-sized bars. Feel free to cut them into smaller bars or squares, depending on how big you want the bars to be.

How to Store Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Breakfast Bars

Store bars in a sealed container, with parchment paper between each layer in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

To freeze the bars, wrap each bar individually in plastic wrap and then place in a freezer-safe plastic bag or container in the freezer for up to 2 months.

When ready to enjoy, let defrost in the refrigerator. If you’re taking the bars on-the-go in a lunch box, hiking bag, etc. to eat within a few hours from frozen, they can be thawed at room temperature while on-the-go.