3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Bars (2024)

My family loves 3 ingredient peanut butter oatmeal bars because they're super simple to make, healthy, and taste amazing! The mix of peanut butter and oatmeal gives them a perfect chewy texture and a delicious, nutty flavor. Plus, they’re a great quick snack or breakfast option that everyone enjoys.

Oatmeal bars are the perfect breakfast to make on the weekends and enjoy them throughout the week! With only 3 simple ingredients, you can't go wrong with these bars.

If you love these bars, make sure you check out these Peanut Butter Banana Bars and Apple Cinnamon breakfast bars!

Why You'll Love This Simple Recipe

• It's a super versatile recipe! You can add lots of delicious ingredients to these healthy oatmeal bars. More on that later!
• It's easy to make! Add all the ingredients to a large mixing bowl and then bake it up! You can't beat how easy that is!
• It's a great way to get healthy ingredients in your kids! Since these taste delicious, the kids will eat them up! Plus these is no added sugar! The natural sweetness of the bananas is enough to give these bars a touch of sweetness.

3-Ingredient Peanut Banana Butter Oatmeal Bars Ingredients

You only need a few basic ingredients for these bars!

• 3 Medium Bananas. You will need three overripe, spotty bananas.
• Oats. Old-fashioned oats or quick oats would work in this recipe. Do not use steel cut oats in these bars. The steel cut oats won't cook properly.
• Natural Peanut Butter. Your favorite variety of creamy, natural peanut butter.

Variations

• Change the nut butter! Almond butter, cashew butter, sunflower seed butter, or a combination of peanut butter and other nut butters would be great!
• Add some nuts and seeds! Feel free to add a few tablespoons of chia seeds, flax seeds, hemp seeds, or your favorite healthy nut!
• Make this easy recipe into 3 ingredient banana oatmeal cookies! To do that, simply line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat, with a cookie scoop, scoop the dough onto the baking sheet. Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes and let them cool to room temperature and serve!
• Add some sweetness! Add ¼ cup of maple syrup, brown sugar, vanilla extract, or a few tablespoons of honey to the batter.

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f. Grab an 8x8 baking dish and line baking pan with parchment paper. Mash the bananas well in a large bowl.

Step 2: Add the oatmeal to the large bowl with the mashed banana and mix well.

See Also

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Step 3: Add the peanut butter to the bowl. Mix well.

Step 4: Add the batter to the prepared baking pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the top of the bars are golden brown. Let them cool before cutting.

Storage Tips

Allow the bars to cool to room temperature and then place them in an even layer in an airtight container. Keep the sealed container on the counter for up to 4 days.

You can also freeze these bars! Place them in an even layer in a gallon sized Ziploc bag or a freezer safe container and freeze these 3 ingredient bars for up to 3 months.

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