Banana Bread Oat Bars
These Banana Bread Oat Bars are a quick, easy and delicious homemade snack, perfect for filling little lunchboxes! Made with ripe bananas and oats, they're soft, chewy and full of lovely banana bread flavour. Ideal for breakfast, after-school snacks or lunchbox treats, they're also perfect for batch baking and freezing, making busy school mornings that little bit easier. A great way to use up those ripe bananas sitting in the fruit bowl!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 200 g porridge oats
- 20 g milled flaxseed
- 20 g chia seed whole or milled
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1.5 tsp Dr. Oetker baking powder
- 4 small ripe bananas must be ripe!
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 200 g greek yoghurt
- 2 eggs
- 60 ml maple syrup
- 80 g Milk or Dark chocolate chips or chunks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. Line a 20cm square baking tin or similar-sized ovenproof dish with baking paper.
- In a mixing bowl add the oats, milled flaxseed, chia seeds, cinnamon and baking powder, mix.
- Put the bananas on a chopping board and mash well until mostly smooth, add to the mixing bowl.
- Stir in the Greek yoghurt, eggs, maple syrup, vanilla extract. Mix well until everything is combined.
- Fold through the chocolate chips, reserving half for the top.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and spread evenly. Sprinkle over the reserved chocolate chips.
- Bake for 25 minutes, until golden on top and set in the centre.
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes before slicing into 16 bars.
- Storage: Good in an air tight bag or container for 3 days.
- Freeze for 3 months, defrost overnight in an air tight container or add straight to the lunchbox in the morning.
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