Description
These tasty vegan energy bars taste just like full-fat, non-vegan oatmeal cookies. Completely irresistible. They are great as breakfast bars with coffee, as an in-between meal snack to keep you going, or a healthy dessert! Once you try them, you will never bother with non-vegan oatmeal cookies again!
Ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cups rolled oats
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup vegan semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup ground unsalted cashews
- 2 tablespoons shelled unsalted sunflower seeds
- 1 tablespoon ground flax meal
- 1 tablespoon wheat germ
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ cup honey, warmed
- ⅓ cup almond butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9×11-inch baking dish with aluminum foil.
- Whisk oats
- flour
- chocolate chips
- ground cashews
- sunflower seeds
- flax meal
- wheat germ
- cinnamon
- and sea salt together in a large shallow bowl.
- Stir warmed honey
- almond butter
- and vanilla extract together in a bowl until well-mixed. Pour honey mixture into oat mixture; stir until batter is well-combined. Turn batter out into prepared baking dish. Lay a sheet of waxed paper over batter and press firmly to evenly distribute in the baking dish. Remove and discard waxed paper.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden and fragrant
- about 12 minutes. Pull aluminum foil from baking dish and cool bars in the aluminum foil for 10 minutes; remove and discard aluminum foil. Cut into bars.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 24