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Banana Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate Chips

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These banana oatmeal chocolate chip bars are the perfect healthy snack to have on hand during a busy week or bring to a party.Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars - The Lemon BowlOk fine. So maybe I do bake. A little bit. But I promise there’s never yeast involved because baking with yeast frightens me. I leave that crazy bread baking business to my Italian husband who enjoys spending three days tucking his bread into a warm blanket and singing it lullabies as it rises under a heat lamp. In order for me to bake I need a recipe I can actually eat within an hour or so and a guarantee that I won’t be able to ruin it. 

Silpat Cookies - The Lemon BowlSpeaking of no-fail guarantee, if you find me baking you will most likely find a Silpat® on my pan. Do you own any silicone baking sheets? Like magic, cookies will glide right off the pan every. single. time. No butter, grease or baking spray required. Want to know what’s even more fun than that? They also make a baking pan, the Silpat® Entremet, from the same non-stick silicone I’m madly in love with!

Silpat Entremet - The Lemon BowlSee that? You simply place the Silpat® Entremet on a baking sheet, pour in the batter then pop in the oven. No buttering or flouring required. Baking anxiety = gone. My husband goes through half a jar of cristco every year greasing pans for his famous hermit bars every Christmas so you better believe we will be using this pan during the holidays!

Banana Oatmeal Bars - The Lemon BowlAnother note I must point out: the pan gave these bars the most perfect, subtle crust. Not too crispy, just perfectly browned with a crunch to balance out the moist cake-like consistency of the bars. They can be stored in an air-tight container room temperature but we actually like to keep them cool in the fridge. The choice is yours. You will love them either way.

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Banana Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate Chips
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
45 mins
Total Time
1 hr 5 mins
 
These banana oatmeal chocolate chip bars are the perfect healthy snack to have on hand during a busy week or bring to a party.
Course: Snack
Servings: 24
Calories: 205 kcal
Author: Liz DellaCroce
Ingredients
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Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 350 and spray a 15 x 10 x 1 baking pan with cooking spray or place a Silpat Entremet silicone baking pan on a large baking sheet.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together whole wheat pastry flour, oats, white flour, flax seed meal, baking powder and salt; set aside.
  3. In a stand mixer, cream together coconut oil, brown sugar and white sugar over high speed until nice and creamy - about 2 minutes.
  4. Reduce mixer speed to low and slowly add in yogurt and vanilla. Add eggs in one at a time and blend until incorporated.
  5. Add mashed bananas and blend until combined using a rubber spatula to clean the sides of the bowl.
  6. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet and blend until just incorporated - careful not to over mix.
  7. Remove bowl from the stand mixer and gently fold in chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.
  8. Pour mixture into baking pan and bake for 45 minutes until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean. Let cool completely before slicing into 24 bars.
Nutrition Facts
Banana Oatmeal Bars with Chocolate Chips
Amount Per Serving
Calories 205 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10g 15%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Polyunsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 15mg 5%
Sodium 143mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 27.6g 9%
Dietary Fiber 2.4g 10%
Sugars 16.1g
Protein 3g 6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Disclaimer: I was not paid to write this post. I have been baking with Silpat® for as long as I can remember so when they offered to send me a complimentary Silpat® Entremet to try on my own, I eagerly said yes! All thoughts are 100% my own.

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  1. I plan to make this banana oatmeal chocolate chip bars for my family and the cadets at West Point if I win the Silpat pans. Sticking bars make me a bit nervous, and I only like to send treats to West Point that come out clean, as I figure they already must get a little banged up in the mailing.
    Please let me be the winner!

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  2. I would bake all sorts of stuff. My vegetarian lasagna with zucchini and mushroom, chocolate chip cookies, banana peanut butter bread with walnuts, cornbread… the list goes on

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    • Hi Angela – It is actually not the same thing. Whole wheat pastry flour is better for baking because it results in a much lighter, airy texture/consistency where as I find 100% whole wheat flour results in a heavier baked good. Highly suggest buying a bag of whole wheat pastry flour for pancakes, muffins, cookies and anything else you’d like to bake!!

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  6. I’m definitely ready for a new silpat! Mine is all battered and abused from culinary school. And I love tuille cookies, so of course those bad boys are going in the oven first!

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  26. I’m going to make the banana oatmeal cho. chip bars for the staff meeting on the 20th. I am responsible for providing food for our full staff meeting and need something new, healthy and yummy to start them off right. Searching for a second item to make as well. Bye, bye breakfast burritos from Famous Taco!

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  28. Yum~I would love to make the ice cream cake,think I would be afraid but
    maybe with the silpat,I would have the confidence.:-)

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  31. I cant wait to try the Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip bars. They look delicious! I usually use parchment paper so the Silpat will be very nice to try out.

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  45. How awesome!!!! I’d love to make a super sticky toffee brownie bar. With the silpat entre, you wouldn’t have to worry about them sticking!

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  93. I would bake oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

    Thanks for the chance to win!
    wildorchid985 at gmail dot com

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  100. Wow, I could really really use this Silpat! I would make this awesome white cake and strawberry roll I’ve been wanting to make all strawberry season, but I seriously use a kitchen towel that i throw away every time or as you said, I have to grease AND flour the pan, so this would be simply amazing! Thanks for doing this giveaway, hope I win :) and I follow you on Twitter and Instagram and get your lovely newsletter :)
    This recipe for the banana oatmeal chocolate chip bars looks amazingly good as well, can’ wait to try it!

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  106. I have always wanted to try and make some type of roll cake but have always been too afraid… with a Silpat, I would finally try it. And maybe make some parmesan crisps too! (Not at the same time, of course)

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  124. What a great giveaway! I’d bake some oreo cheesecake bars. Or some banana cookie bars (like these!). Or maybe some lemon bars. I can’t decide!

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  126. I would definitely try this pan with the millionaire shortbread I make – in order to get them out of the pan, I have to line it with aluminum foil that hangs over the sides to pull it out of the pan; and invariably, I always have to pull the foil off the cookie base too :\

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  127. I love my slipmat! They really are the best. I have not made cookies with bananas but it is now on my list! Healthy and they look so delicious.

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  129. I would start with these, then move on to lemon bars, and my favorite little variation, key lime bars

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  133. My boyfriend has been hinting at (read: Asked, created a board on pinterest, tweeted, and texted)me baking cinnamon rolls. I would definitely bake those! :)

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  134. Big batch of gooey walnut chocolate chip cookies, and 3 glasses of cold milk, for me and my girls. The magic of this experience never seems to fade! (Intrigued by the use of coconut oil in this banana-oatmeal bar, trying to find more uses for this to see if it makes any health differences)

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  140. I’d make my Marine grandson’s favorite cookies–chocolate chip oatmeal!!! He shares them with his buddies at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina!! Semper Fi!!!

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  157. Follow The Lemon Bowl on Twitter (@kayday3) and Pinterest (kad5243)

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  161. Also signed up for the weekly newsletter! Even tho it’s dangerous because your amazingly delish recipes always make me HUNGRY! *hehe*

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  162. New pan, so I’d try a new recipe and make those delicious bars you posted above. Then I’d bake a batch of my mom’s brownies for my daughter (because she’s been asking me to for a while now). Then some lady fingers so I could make some “from scratch” tiramisu (because it’s delicious!). I’ve been wanting some Silpat baking mats for a while now actually, so I may just have to get some either way. :0)

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  164. I would bake everything on this! I have awful cheap pans that absolutely everything sticks to, and I bake all time. Everything from cookies to layer dips would be fair game!

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  167. I have silicon bake mats I always use when baking cookies – I have never seen this bake sheet before. It looks perfect for bars!! I am all over making these to, I think I may make them with my ap gluten free flour blend and see how they turn out. I need to do something with the giant pile of way overripe frozen bananas that I have.

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  174. I will make those Yummy looking banana bars, Liz! Talk about lovely (and healthy)! How can you go wrong? ;) Thanks for the shot at such an awesome product for ANY level of a baker!!

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  177. I have and love my silpat! I would love to win the new Silpat Entremet! I would bake gluten free brownies for my son.

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  181. I have also used Silpat for years love it…I would bake my homemade granola bars on it ..always use my Silpat when I make my granola..Thanks for the opportunity! love your blog!

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  191. If I win, I’d try making either gluten free oatmeal breakfast cookies or gluten free “Almond Joy” cookies which require using a lined baking sheet.

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