Just when you thought life couldn’t get any easier, along comes this recipe for dairy free granola bars. With four simple ingredients, you will be quickly snacking on something delicious!
Why Make Your Own Homemade Granola Bars?
Sometimes out of frustration for lack of a delicious product out there, we get creative and make our own. Sometimes that recipe we develop in our kitchen is even better than what we could buy in the store!
I love when that happens. Many of my recipes were born from a need to have a safe option for my family’s dietary restrictions. These gluten and dairy free granola bars are just one of these recipes.
These homemade granola bars are gluten free, dairy free, nut free, and easily made vegan with a simple substitution. No bake granola bars have never tasted so good!
My family has long loved granola bars. It is very difficult to find granola bars that meet our families dietary restrictions.
For us this means – No gluten, no dairy, and no nuts. Most granola bars on the market include one or all of these things, so I’ve started making my own so I can control what goes in them.
When you are dealing with nuts, dairy and gluten restrictions, things can get tricky. When you’re dealing with any food allergies things can get tricky.
Luckily, I’ve found some amazing products, with ingredient lists I can handle.
These tasty and easy-to-make gluten and dairy free granola bars do not last long in my gluten free home! Sometimes I double the batch so that I can keep them for more than a day or two.
One of these tasty ingredients is gluten-free oats. If you LOVE oats you need to try these No-Bake Oatmeal Cookies from Texan Erin!
What are Gluten-free Oats?
While oats themselves don’t contain gluten,many oats are processed in a way that introduces gluten into them. Buy oats that are certified gluten-free to be safe.
The kids LOVE to help mix the simple 4 ingredients together to make this recipe! This is a great recipe to introduce kids into the kitchen because there is no heat involved. Just dump and mix!
To make these dairy free granola bars, I used Pascha Organic Chocolate with Rice Milk Baking Chips, honey, sunflower seed spread and gluten-free oats.
That’s it! If you’d like to make the recipe vegan, you can sub brown rice syrup for the honey.
Alternatively, if you are a dark chocolate lover, I would recommend the 55% Cacao – Organic Semi- Sweet Dark Chocolate Chips for these bars.
I was lucky to be introduced to Pascha a few years back. If you remember me posting about their products, I always tell the story about how I met this company at a show in Chicago!
Pascha products are free from so many common allergens.
Don’t expect to find these ingredients on the label:
- gluten
- dairy
- peanuts
- egg
- soy
- fish
- shellfish
- tree nuts
- gluten
- barley
- carrageenan
- coconut
- sesame
- sulfites
- mustard
- legumes (including peas)
- cherries
- raspberries
- kiwi
- grapes
- sage
- sorghum
Because their products are free from so many allergens, there are so many people that can enjoy them! I have enjoyed each and every product from Pascha and so does my family.
This isn’t your average chocolate, this is special. THIS is delicious!
I love that this recipe is a dump, stir, eat type of recipe! Aren’t those types of recipes the best kind?
I can’t wait for you to try this dairy free granola bars recipe. I just know you and your family are going to love it!
Love Granola Bars? You need to try these No Bake Apple Pie Granola Bars from A Mindful Mom.
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Hungry? Okay, let’s get to it!
With four simple ingredients, you will be quickly snacking on something delicious!
- 2 cups gluten-free old fashioned oats
- 1 cup of sunflower seed spread
- 3/4 cup of Pascha Organic Chocolate with Rice Milk Baking Chips
- 1/4 cup of honey
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Mix together. Be patient this takes a while but it will come together!
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Place a sheet of parchment paper down into an 8X8 baking dish. Press mixture down into baking dish.
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Freeze for 1 hour.
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Remove from freezer, gently cut into bars. Individually wrap and keep in freezer or fridge until you are ready to eat.
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ENJOY!
These bars do best when kept in the freezer and individually wrapped. They are great for taking on road trips!
**Store bars in freezer or fridge.
You can also use Brown Rice Syrup in place of the honey to make the recipe vegan.
Did you make this recipe?
Be sure to snap a picture and post it to Instagram with the hashtag #VegetarianMamma! I love seeing our recipes being recreated!
Let’s talk! I want to hear from you! What do you LOVE in your granola bars? I sometimes add in cranberries and pumpkin seeds? Leave a comment and let me know what YOU like in your granola bars!
Thank you to Pascha for sponsoring this post and for giving us some product to create this recipe! You connect with Pascha on their website.
Looking for other allergy-friendly recipes? All our recipes are nut-free and gluten-free. We also have vegan recipes too!
Ali @ Home & Plate says
This granola bar recipe is a keeper. Any time I can just dump it and mix it up to make a healthy snack I am all for it. Love that it has only four ingredients that I can always just keep in the pantry. Yum. I know my kids would love these.
Cindy says
Yes, things you can easily keep in the pantry to whip up when you want! YUM
lisa | Garlic + Zest says
When you’re dealing with dietary restrictions, it’s always best to just make it yourself — to verify what you’re getting (and not getting). These granola bars sound great! An easy snack or quick breakfast treat!
Cindy says
You got it! So much easier to make for ourselves then we know what is in it!
Kavey says
I love making simple granola bars – flapjacks we call them – as it’s so easy to use only wholesome delicious ingredients. These look really delicious!
Cindy says
Thanks Kavey! I hope you love these too!
Platter Talk says
I think that this might be the nest project for my kids to learn. They certainly love granola bars! Thank you.
Cindy says
You are so welcome! I hope your kids enjoy!
swayam says
super healthy and such a great snack. I would love to carry a bar or two to work with me!
Cindy says
Thanks so much! These are delicious FOR SURE 🙂 YUM
Barbara says
Oh, I just love granola, Cindy. Granola is one of those foods that conjure up wonderful memories for me. I was 16 and spending the weekend at my best friend’s lake house. Don’t you just love memories that are attached to food?
Your granola bars look amazing. 🙂
Barbara says
I meant to give you 5 stars. 🙂
Cindy says
Thank you!!
Cindy says
I do LOVE those memories. Those are some of my happiest childhood memories…spending time with my mom in the kitchen 🙂 Thanks for the love!
sandy says
Has anyone ever tried using cacao nibs in these as a 5th ingredient?
Cindy says
That’s a great idea, I haven’t tried that yet!
Courtney says
Can this be made with wow butter? We’re sunflower allergic, too.
Cindy says
Yes, it should be an equal sub. I haven’t made it with Wow but I’ve had wow butter before and it should perform very similar 🙂
Liz says
These are such a perfect quick and easy snacks! I love having things like this ready to go in the morning!
Cindy says
Perfect for on the go!
Lauren Vavala | DeliciousLittleBites says
I’ve always wanted to make my own granola bars! This recipe looks so easy and I love sunbutter and of course, chocolate!
Cindy says
So easy!
Dana says
This recipe looks perfect for my son! He has a lot of allergies and making these bars would definitely ease my mind!
Cindy says
Yay, glad its a great fit!
Sylvie | The Foodie Journey says
Homemade granola bars are such a perfect healthy snack, and I love that these ones are so easy to make! Only 4 ingredients!? Yes please!
Cindy says
Yep just four ingredients!
Jill says
I think it’s fantastic that there are so many food products on the market now – for all spectrums of dietary needs and concerns. Dump and mix means I’m actually going to make it – as opposed to buying it in the store. Great recipe!
Cindy says
Thanks!
Ashley says
Made these this morning. Still waiting for them to be done in the freezer to try. I used regular peanut butter, and Enjoy Life semi-sweet chips. My family only has egg, dairy, and tree but allergies so it’s difficult to find good quality allergen free granola bars that aren’t ridiculously expensive. It was very easy to make. My children and I can’t wait to eat them!
Cindy says
Granola bars are hard to find! That is for sure! I recently found a “Made Good” granola in a bag at our local health foods store. I haven’t seen it anyway. So instead of the granola balls/bars they typically sell its just granola and perfect for topping things like dairy free yogurt!