Amish homemade granola bars have a chewy texture, a sweet oaty flavor, and pockets of mini chocolate chips. These no-bake granola bars are easy to make and a great portable snack.
These homemade granola bars are the kind of simple, practical snack that fits well with the Amish tradition of making homemade treats for family and school lunches.
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Ingredients
- Butter and oil add richness and help create soft, chewy granola bars.
- Mini marshmallows are the "glue" that holds these no-bake bars together while adding sweetness and chewiness.
- Peanut butter adds flavor, creaminess, and helps bind the ingredients together.
- Honey adds sweetness and also helps hold the bars together.
- Quick oats give these bars their hearty texture and classic granola flavor.
- Rice Krispies add a light, crispy texture that balances the chewy oats.
- Graham cracker crumbs add sweetness and a subtle buttery flavor.
- Mini chocolate chips add little pockets of chocolate in every bite.
- Unsweetened coconut flakes (optional) add extra texture and flavor. You can leave them out if your family doesn't care for coconut.
How to Make Easy Chewy Granola Bars
These DIY chewy granola bars are not hard to make. However, it can be a bit of a sticky mess. So you'll want to make sure to grease your tools (bowl, pan, scraper, etc.) with butter.
Grease, or line with parchment, a 10 x 15" jelly roll pan.
Mix the dry ingredients in a large greased bowl and set aside.
Heat the butter and oil in a large pot over low heat, then add the marshmallows and stir until they're melted. Remove from the heat and add the peanut butter and honey. Mix until combined. Immediately, slowly pour this mixture over the granola mixture, as you are stirring, to cover and mix.
Once you have a giant cohesive ball and the crumbs are all mixed in, press the mixture into your prepared sheet pan.
Cool and cut into bars.
One of my favorite kitchen utensils is a mini serving spatula. It's perfect for serving these Amish granola bars.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. Refrigerate for longer storage.
Versatile Kid-friendly Granola Bars
Chocolate chip granola bars are great for packing in a lunch or for an afternoon snack. Kids love these chewy and crispy granola bars, and it's a good way to get extra grains into their diet.
These easy no-bake granola bars are also versatile. You can leave out the chocolate chips and add raisins instead. Add pepitas or sliced almonds. And if you need them to be gluten-free bars, you can leave out the graham cracker crumbs.
So feel free to adjust some of the ingredients, but for best results, you will need to keep the amounts of ingredients close to the same.
Are Homemade Marshmallow Granola Bars Healthy?
I'm not going to try to convince you that these honey oat granola bars are healthy. They have some healthy ingredients, and there is no added sugar. However, we all know that marshmallows are loaded with sugar, and there are graham crackers as well.
But homemade granola bars are still healthier than highly processed store-packaged foods that are loaded with preservatives.
Amish Snacks
Growing up Amish in a family of ten kids, we didn't eat very many store-bought snacks. You can only imagine the cost of buying snacks for a large family and how fast they'd disappear.
And honestly, we did not eat a lot of snacks. We ate three meals a day and we were supposed to fill up enough to last us till the next meal.
But sometimes we were allowed to have a little snack when we came home from school. It was typically homemade or homegrown, although we occasionally had pretzels or nuts, etc.
More delicious homemade Amish snacks that are easy to make include...
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Amish Granola Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 5 Tbsp. butter
- ¼ c. oil
- 1 ½ lb. mini marshmallows
- ½ c. peanut butter
- ⅓ c. honey
- 5 c. quick oats
- 4 ½ c. Rice Krispies
- 1 c. graham cracker crumbs (about 6 whole crackers crushed)
- 1 c. mini chocolate chips
- 1 c. unsweetened coconut flakes, optional
Instructions
- In a large greased bowl, mix Rice Krispies, oats, cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, and coconut.4 ½ c. Rice Krispies, 5 c. quick oats, 1 c. graham cracker crumbs (about 6 whole crackers crushed), 1 c. mini chocolate chips, 1 c. unsweetened coconut flakes, optional
- Heat butter and oil in a large pot over low heat. Grease the sides of the pot with some of the oil.5 Tbsp. butter, ¼ c. oil
- Add the marshmallows and stir until melted.1 ½ lb. mini marshmallows
- Remove from the heat, add the peanut butter and honey. Stir until mixed, And immediately pour slowly over the granola mixture as you are stirring until everything is combined.½ c. peanut butter, ⅓ c. honey
- Press the mixture into a greased 10 x 15" sheet pan (jelly roll size).
- Cool and cut into bars. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for a week. If you need to keep them longer than that, you may want to store them in the refrigerator.
Anna
So yummy! They disappear quickly!