{"id":2917,"date":"2016-11-22T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2018-03-09T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:05:35","slug":"chewy-chocolate-peanut-butter-flax-granola-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/chewy-chocolate-peanut-butter-flax-granola-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewy Chocolate Peanut Butter Flax Granola Bars."},"content":{"rendered":"

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These chocolate peanut butter flax granola bars bring me great joy. They taste\u00a0a lot<\/em> like a candy bar, but they’re full of healthy stuff (oats! flax! nuts!) and aren’t nearly as indulgent as that blanket of chocolate makes them look. They’re chewy, peanut buttery, sweet and salty, and I keep running out of the ingredients because I can’t.stop.making.them.<\/p>\n

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You start by combining\u00a0oats, ground flaxseed, chopped peanuts, a little brown sugar, and kosher salt in a big bowl. (Try to keep any helpful 2-year-olds from eating all of the brown sugar out of said\u00a0bowl while you’re not looking.) Mix peanut butter, honey, a little oil, and vanilla into a thick, drizzly liquid that binds the dry ingredients\u00a0together. Press it all into a pan, and bake!<\/p>\n

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Sprinkle chocolate chips on the bars as soon as they come out of the oven. After a minute or two they get soft and melty, and you can spread them out like icing! This method makes a rich, beautiful chocolate layer on top of the bars without any extra effort\u00a0(for a second I thought about dipping cut bars into chocolate, like KIND bars, but ain’t nobody got time for that. This is so super simple!). \u00a0Plus,\u00a0you get to lick that spatula.<\/p>\n

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If you’re a fan of these chocolate chip granola bars<\/span><\/a>, I used that recipe as the jumping off point for this\u00a0peanut butter version. Oh, and you could definitely make these minus the\u00a0chocolate, if you wanted them to seem\u00a0a little breakfast-ier or something. But that makes my heart hurt a little, so maybe just cut them smaller and tuck them into lunchboxes and eat them outside on crisp fall afternoon walks and standing over your sink pretending to be doing dishes\u00a0(no, I’m not chewing\u00a0anything, dear children!)<\/em> and as a we’re-out-of-dessert dessert.<\/p>\nPrint<\/a>

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