Description
If I didn’t have a raisin-hating hubby, I would definitely add raisins to these. You can amp up the flavor to your liking with add-ins like chocolate chips, coconut, peanuts, and the like. Or just add a spread of peanut butter and/or jelly to make them a little more like a treat.
If you don’t have oat flour on hand, you can easily make your own if you have a good high speed blender (I use a VitaMix with a separate blender blade that’s made for dry ingredients). Just blend the rolled oats until they become powdery like flour. Use slightly more–just over a cup–to yield one cup of flour. That’s it!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup oat flour (or an additional heaping cup of oats blended into flour)
- 3 Tablespoons flaxseed meal
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter powder (optional)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1/2 cup mashed banana (about one large banana)
- 1 cup milk (almond milk or other milk of your choice)
- 1/3 cup pure, natural maple syrup (adjust to the level of sweetness you prefer)
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans or other nut of your choice)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray an 8×8 baking pan with nonstick spray and line the bottom with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, mix Oat flour, flax meal, cinnamon, baking powder and salt with a whisk. Set aside.
- Place coconut oil and peanut butter in a pyrex type mixing bowl and microwave for 30 to 60 seconds or so until melted. Or melt in a small pan over low heat. Be careful not to let it burn. Then stir to combine.
- To the peanut butter mixture, add banana, milk, beaten egg, maple syrup and vanilla and whisk until well combined.
- Add oat flour mixture, oats, and nuts to the wet ingredients, stirring just until well combined.
- Add any additional add-ins such as chocolate chips or coconut flakes.
- Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 25 to 40 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown and the center has set. Cool for at least 15 minutes before cutting into them, and let cool completely before slicing into bars.