Granola Bars with Yogurt Coating
The homemade Granola Yogurt Bars are made with simple ingredients and easy to prepare. Topped with a white chocolate drizzle, it's a yummy kid-approved snack!
Servings: 16 granola bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup honey
- ½ cup natural peanut butter
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups oats
- 1.5 cups puffed rice cereal
- ¼ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup almonds chopped
- ¼ cup freeze dried strawberries crushed
Yogurt coating:
- ¼ cup+ 2 tablespoon plain 2% Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoon light cream cheese softened
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk to thin
Optional:
- ¼ cup melted white chocolate for drizzle
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl, combine honey and peanut butter. Microwave for 30 seconds to soften the peanut butter, creating a runny consistency. Add vanilla extract. Whisk until smooth.
- In a large mixing bowl combine oats, puffed rice cereal, shredded coconut, salt, cinnamon, almonds, and freeze dried strawberries.
- Pour peanut butter/honey mixture over the dry ingredients, Stir to combine. It may help to use your hands to ensure everything is fully mixed.
- Press the mix into a parchment paper lined, 8-inch square pan. This is essential to ensuring the bars stay together. Freeze for at least 2 hours.
- Once the bars are frozen, gently slice into 16 equal-sized granola bars.
- To make the yogurt coating, whisk together Greek yogurt, softened cream cheese, powdered sugar and milk.
- Dip the top of each granola bar into the yogurt coating and place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Drizzle with melted white chocolate and sprinkle with additional freeze-dried strawberries if desired. Store in the freezer!
Notes
Get creative with the mix-ins! Dried fruit can be swapped if you cannot find freeze-dried. Almonds can be replaced with any nuts or seeds of choice (or even a mix of a few). The coconut can be left out and replaced with additional oats.
For the glaze: cream cheese helps create a more smooth, even consistency for the yogurt coating, however it can be replaced with an additional ¼ cup of 5% Greek yogurt if needed.
*I have included an estimation of the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget that both your body and soul need nourishment! The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.
Nutrition
Serving: 1granola bar | Calories: 185kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 49mg | Potassium: 178mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 13IU | Vitamin C: 45mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 2mg
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