Best 20 Energy Bars Recipes

EASY ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Stir oats, chocolate chips, flax meal, peanut butter, honey, vanilla extract, and salt together in a bowl. Roll into 24 balls and refrigerate until firm, at least 30 minutes.

HOMEMADE ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine oats, sweetened dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, white chocolate chips, sesame seeds, oat bran, flax seeds, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Stir in peanut butter, honey, and oil. Press mixture firmly into a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill for 10 minutes to set.
• Slice chilled bars into 2x3-inch squares. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.

NO-BAKE PEANUT BUTTER ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• In a large microwave-safe bowl, combine peanut butter and honey. Heat, uncovered, until warmed, 20-30 seconds. Stir until smooth; add remaining ingredients and stir until combined. Transfer to a lightly greased 13x9-inch pan; gently press mixture into pan. Cover and refrigerate until set, 1 hour or overnight. Cut into bars.

BIRD SEED ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x14 inch ovenproof baking dish.
• Mix the rolled oats, brown sugar, wheat germ, cinnamon, and flour together in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, honey, canola oil, vanilla, and salt until evenly blended., and stir into the oat mixture. Stir in the flax seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and chocolate chips. Use your hands to mix the ingredients, and press the mixture into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until the edges are golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely in the baking dish before cutting into 2 inch bars.

NO-BAKE EASY ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Combine the peanut butter and honey in a large nonstick pot and warm over low heat until runny and mixed.
• Mix in the oatmeal and protein powder.
• Do not bake, but heat enough to mix nicely.
• Press into a 9x9 inch pan and let cool (to make cutting them easier, you could stick the covered pan into the refrigerator for a few hours).
• Slice into 16 bars and package in sandwich baggies.

ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly oil a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix the eggs, banana, oats, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, milk powder, dates, raisins, walnuts, apricots, wheat germ, maple syrup, and whole-wheat pastry flour together in a large bowl until thoroughly combined; spread the mixture evenly into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes; set aside to cool. Cut into 9 bars and wrap with plastic to store.

CHEWY ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the cereal, oats and wheat germ. In a small saucepan, combine the corn syrup, peanut butter and brown sugar. Cook over medium heat until peanut butter is melted, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat. Stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal mixture; mix well., Transfer to a greased 9-in. square pan. Gently press cereal mixture evenly into pan. Cool completely. Cut into bars.

RICE CEREAL ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Combine the sesame seeds and sunflower seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring until fragrant and toasted. Salt lightly, and set aside to cool.
• Combine the dates, raisins, apricots, cherries, chocolate chips and the toasted seeds in the container of a food processor. Pulse to chop until small but not pasty. Transfer to a large bowl, and mix with oats and crisp rice cereal.
• In a small glass bowl, mix together the corn syrup, sugar and peanut butter. Heat in the microwave until bubbly. Stir in the powdered milk, vanilla, and almond extract. Pour the peanut butter mixture over the bowl of cereal and goodies, and mix with a wooden spoon until everything is evenly coated.
• Press the mixture into a greased 10x15 inch jellyroll pan using wet hands. Cut into squares, and allow to cool completely before removing from the pan.

OATMEAL PEANUT BUTTER ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Spray a 9 by 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine honey, peanut butter, maple syrup, canola oil, brown sugar, cinnamon. Stir and cook until mixture just begins to bubble, about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
• In a large bowl, combine oats, rice cereal, wheat germ, peanuts, apricots, figs and salt.
• Pour peanut butter mixture over oatmeal mixture and stir gently with a spatula until well combined. Transfer to baking dish, cover with parchment paper and press firmly into dish. Allow to cool completely (will cool faster in the refrigerator). Cut into squares or bars.

CHEF JOHN'S CHOCOLATE ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Place cashews, almonds, coconut, dates, cocoa, coconut oil, vanilla, cold coffee, cayenne and salt in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse on and off to start. Process about 1 minute; check to ensure mixture is sticky and moist enough to stick together. Add more coffee if needed. Continue to process until mixture becomes a chunky mass.
• Line a baking pan with plastic wrap. Scoop mixture into pan. Press down with a spatula until mixture is even. Place a layer of plastic wrap on the surface and smooth again with your hands.
• Refrigerate until cold and firm, 2 or 3 hours.
• Remove from the pan and unwrap. Cut into bars of your preferred size. Store in a zip top back in the refrigerator.

NATURAL NO-BAKE PEANUT BUTTER ENERGY BARS.

Steps:

• Combine peanut butter and honey in a large nonstick pot and warm up over a low heat until runny and mixed.
• Mix in the oatmeal (and protein powder if using).
• You don't want to cook it, just heat it up enough to stir everything together nicely.
• Press into a 9x9-inch pan.
• Let cool, then cut into 16 equal bars.
• Wrap each bar in foil and store in plastic bags. - No need to refrigerate as the ingredients are natural.

OATMEAL ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x11-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.

APPLESAUCE ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• 1. Stir raisins, applesauce and vanilla; set aside.
• 2. Melt butter in pan over medium heat and add oatmeal and nuts stirring constantly; 3-4 minutes.
• 3. Stir in cinnamon and salt; cook 1 minute.
• 4. Pour mixture from pan into a bowl.
• 5. Stir eggs and honey into raisin mixture.
• 6. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Spread into 8x8 buttered pan and bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

BANANA OAT ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix oats, bananas, carrots, apple, applesauce, and peanuts together in a bowl; spread into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

HOMEMADE GRANOLA BARS (HEALTH OR ENERGY BARS)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or foil. Combine the oats, wheat germ, flax seeds, sesame seeds and almonds; spread out evenly on the rimmed baking sheet and toast for approximately 10 to 15 minutes until golden, stirring occasionally and watching carefully so as not to burn.
• In the meantime, in a large bowl combine salt, coconut, cinnamon and dried cranberries; set aside.
• In a large measuring cup place the vanilla, honey, butter and brown sugar. Microwave approximately 2 minutes. Mixture will foam and bubble. Stir to completely dissolve brown sugar.
• When oat mixture is done toasting, transfer to the same bowl with coconut mixture and stir to evenly combine. Add the honey mixture and stir to incorporate.
• Line a 9" x 13" baking pan with waxed paper. Spread the mixture, using the back of a wooden spoon, pressing to create a smooth, even surface. Place another piece of waxed paper over the top, pressing down to evenly compact the mixture. Compacting is important so the bars won't fall apart when cut. (Suggestion: place one pan of same size within the other and press to even out mixture.).
• Refrigerate and completely cool the mixture about 2 hours to assure a clean cut. Firmly press down with a large knife to cut into bars. Do not saw. Wrap bars in waxed paper and store in refrigerator or freezer.

HAWAII ISLAND ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Toasts oats and sesame seed in skillet, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Melt marshmallows, peanut butter, and margarine over medium flame, stirring constantly.
• Add oats, sesame seed, and remaining ingredients.
• Mix well.
• Press into a 9x13-inch pan.
• Cool and cut into bars.

ENERGY OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• Mix oats, coconut, peanut butter, chocolate chips, flax seeds, and vanilla extract together in bowl until well combined. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9x9-inch baking dish and cut into desired number of bars, leaving bars in the baking dish. Refrigerate for 1 hour.

BLUEBERRY CHOCOLATE ENERGY BARS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350˚F (180˚C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Spread the almonds on one half of the baking sheet and the walnuts on the other half.
• Toast for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly browned and fragrant. Let cool 20 minutes before roughly chopping.
• In a food processor or blender, combine the dates, salt, and water, and process until well-combined.
• Transfer the date mixture to a large bowl and add the brown rice cereal, oats, blueberries, cinnamon, and salt. Stir until well-combined. Add the chopped nuts and fold to combine.
• Transfer the mixture to a parchment-lined baking sheet and spread flat with a spatula.
• Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for 30-45 minutes to set.
• In a large bowl, combine the chocolate and coconut oil, and microwave for 1½ minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted and smooth
• Pour ⅔ of the melted chocolate over the bars and spread evenly. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for 10 minutes, or until the chocolate is set.
• Invert the bars onto a cutting board and remove the parchment paper. Drizzle the remaining chocolate over the top. Return to the freezer for 10 minutes, until the chocolate is set.
• Cut into 16 bars. Wrap individually in parchment paper and store in the fridge or freezer until ready to eat.
• Enjoy!

HAWAIIAN ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Combine: walnuts; raisins; dried mango; dried papaya; whole-wheat flour.
• Mix well.
• Combine: oil; vanilla or 1 tsp.
• coconut extract; salt; whole eggs; egg white; pineapple, mix well.
• Add liquid to dry, mix well.
• Spoon into sprayed 9x5 loaf pan; bake 350, approx.
• 1 hr or till center comes out clean w/ knife.
• Cool on rack.
• Take out of pan, wrap tightly, refrigerate till cold.
• Cut in 16 slices.
• Stores up to 2 weeks.

NO-BAKE ENERGY BARS WITH HONEY

Steps:

• Line a 9x13-inch baking pan with waxed paper.
• Heat honey in a saucepan over medium heat until bubbly, 2 to 3 minutes. Add peanut butter; stir until thoroughly mixed.
• Place granola in a large bowl. Pour honey mixture over granola; stir until well combined. Transfer granola mixture to prepared baking pan; press firmly. Let stand until firm, 15 to 20 minutes.