Blueberry Granola Bars

These blueberry granola bars, filled with toasted oats, unsweetened coconut, almonds, sunflower seeds, and pine nuts, will become your favorite chewy and delicious snack.

These blueberry granola bars are so easy to make and so delicious! They are also nutritious (pretty much) and filling too, the perfect back to school on-the-go breakfast or before football or soccer practice snack.

If you're gluten free and/or vegan, there's that too.

I've been in love with dried blueberries ever since I tried them in this oatmeal blueberry bread. What a revelation. I recommend substituting dried blueberries for the raisins in any recipe. You won't regret it.

I've used them in sourdough, cinnamon blueberry bread (instead of raisins), apple nut oatmeal muffins, triple oatmeal cookies, and singing hinnies!

Even though they are dried, they are way more moist than raisins or other dried fruit. All of my taste testers talked about how moist they were.

If you like the combination of blueberries and granola, you can also make blueberry granola muffins.

Ingredients for blueberry granola bars:

You will need old fashioned (rolled) oats, slivered almonds, raw sunflower seeds, pin nuts, dried blueberries, shredded coconut, fine sea salt, butter, and vanilla.

For the vanilla, I used vanilla bean paste.

To hold the ingredients together, I used this brown rice syrup. These days, you can find it in the sugar or maple syrup section of the supermarket. You can also find it in natural food stores. It's the best for binding the ingredients together and keeping the bars from falling apart.

You can play around with the ingredients in these bars. Substitute any nuts or seeds (by weight) for the ones in this recipe. You can also add a variety of dried fruits instead of the blueberries. You can also add some mini chocolate chips if you like.

Blueberry Granola Bars with toasted oats, coconut, almonds, sunflower seeds, and pine nuts

How to make blueberry granola bars:

First, you toast the oats, nuts, coconut, and seeds in the oven. Next, you cook the brown rice syrup with a little butter. Add some vanilla and stir all of the ingredients together.

Finally, you press the mixture into a baking pan and bake.

Once the mixture has baked and cooled, use a large chef's knife to cut the granola into bars.

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Air Fryer Almond Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins from Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
Cherry Almond Scones from The Redhead Baker
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Overnight Oats from Tara's Multicultural Table
Chorizo, Sausage and Caramelized Onion Mini Quiche from My Sweet Zepol
Rainbow Sprinkle Pancakes from A Day in the Life on the Farm
S'mores Breakfast Bars from Nik Snacks

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ABC 123 Snack Mix from Big Bear's Wife
Blueberry Granola Bars from Karen's Kitchen Stories
Lemon Honey Granola from The Mandatory Mooch

Back to School Desserts:
Apple Cake with Vanilla Bean Sauce from Our Good Life
Apple Slice Donuts from For the Love of Food
Funfetti Cookie Dough Bars from The Spiffy Cookie
Funfetti Dirt Cups from Love and Confections
Spiced Honey Hazelnut Cookies from Culinary Adventures with Camilla