vegan + gluten free oat + nut bars
Love these layered oat and nut bars – a healthy and delicious dessert with a good dose of protein! They remind me of healthy snickers bars but without the chocolate – although you can certainly add some on top if you wanted to 🙂 These are one of my all-time favourite healthy dessert recipes so I hope you’ll love them too!
vegan + gluten free oat + nut bars
Love these layered oat and nut bars – a healthy and delicious dessert with a good dose of protein! They remind me of healthy snickers bars but without the chocolate – although you can certainly add some on top if you wanted to 🙂 These are one of my all-time favourite healthy dessert recipes so I hope you'll love them too!
Ingredients
Base ingredients
- 3/4 cup whole raw almonds or almond flour budget saving hack: to make almond flour from scratch, simply blend your almonds in a high speed blender or food processor
- 1 1/5 cup oats or oat flour likewise for oat flour, simply blend your oats in a blender or food processor until ground into a flour-like tecture
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil simply melt coconut oil in microwave for 30 seconds or until fully melted
- 3 tbsp honey, maple syrup or agave nectar
- 1/2 tsp salt
Creamy topping ingredients
- 1 cup nut butter love almond or peanut butter for these!
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup honey, maple syrup or agave nectar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts any other nut of choice will also work, e.g. cashews, macademias, hazlenuts or pecans!
Instructions
- Prepare the base by blending together your base ingredients.
- Spread mixture evenly on an 8×8 inch pan covered with parchment paper.
- Bake at 350F / 180C for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
- Prepare the creamy topping by combining the topping ingredients together on low heat over the stove. Turn the heat off after about five minutes or once everything has melted together.
- Fold in your chopped walnuts or other nut of choice.
- Once your crust has cooled completely, spread your creamy topping mixture evenly over the crust. Cover and lay flat in freezer for at least three hours (very important to make sure this lays flat, even if it involves some freezer reshuffling!)
- If you do want to add chocolate on top, you can melt about 3/4 cup over the stove and then pour over your frozen nut layer and re-freeze 🙂