banana oats chocolate energy bars

Peanut, Chocolate & Banana energy bars

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Banana, Oats & Chocolate energy bars

Easy recipe to make energy bars with 4 ingredients: banana, oats, nut butter and chocolate. The perfect snack or breakfast.

Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Gluten-free, healthy, vegan, vegetarian
Tags banana, chocolate, oats, peanut, snacks, sweet, vegan
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time 20 minutes
Servings 12 servings
Author Silvia Cooks

Ingredients

  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 300-350 gr oat flakes or flour
  • 6 tbsp nut butter
  • chocolate, chopped

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Line a 20x20cm baking tray with baking paper.

  2. Take a bowl and mash the bananas with a fork. Add the oats (in flakes or ground into oat flour), the nut butter of your choice and rougly chopped chocolate pieces.

  3. Pour the dough in the tray and bake for 18-20 mins, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

  4. Let it cool down and once at room temperature, slice into individual servings.

Notes

How to store

  • Store in the fridge for up to 3 days.
  • Or freeze and consume during the next 3 months.
banana oats chocolate energy bars

A mental snack

As you read this, take a moment to press pause on life, close your eyes, and take a deep breath. Maybe even two.

That is the best kind of snack you could give your mind; a mental snack. A moment to stop, reconnect and gather your monkey-like attention back. I often catch myself on a whirlwind of frenetic activity; pretty much every day, actually. And every day, every time I find myself in this frenzy, I gently try to remind myself that life is not about always doing, always producing, always maxing out.

Gently is the hardest part, for me at least. I’m a life-squeezer, a 24-hours-is-not-enough kind of person! However… Life is not always a lemon to be squeezed, and 24 is enough. Of course, theory is great, practice is a whole other story.

I hope wherever you are, you can give yourself a mental snack, a delicious breath-long break, a well-savoured moment of pause.

BANANA, OATS & CHOCOLATE ENERGY BARS

These banana oats chocolate bars are one of the easiest, simplest and most nutritious snacks I’ve made. I remember having oats, ripe bananas and peanut butter at home, and wondering what kind of delicious way I could combine them in to form a decent snack. I did some googling here and there, and I found this very simple recipe using those 3 ingredients. And then I decided to add in some chocolate, becase why not!

banana oats chocolate energy bars
  • banana oats chocolate energy bars
  • banana oats chocolate energy bars

OTHER SNACKS & BREAKFAST SUGGESTIONS

If you liked this recipe, here are some sweet but wholesome snacks and breakfast ideas you might enjoy:

IN YOUR KITCHEN

If you try this recipe, please let me know how it went in the comments section.

If you share it on social media, I’d love to see it! Tag me @silvia.cooks and use #SilviaCooks.

Bon profit!

Silvia