These super chewy and healthy vegan oatmeal cookie bars are full of melty chocolate chips and are the perfect easy cookie bar recipe! They are vegan, eggless, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free, but it tastes just like the real deal!
Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Bars Ingredients
- Egg replacer. This is my favorite one
- date syrup – these vegan oatmeal cookie bars are entirely refined sugar free as well!
- vegan butter – you can use coconut oil, but these bars taste best with vegan butter
- unsweetened apple sauce
- rolled oats
- all purpose flour – you can use all-purpose, gluten-free 1:1 baking flour, or even oat flour!
- almond flour
- vanilla extract
- salt
- baking powder
- baking soda
How to Make These Easy Cookie Bars
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To start, make sure you measure out all of your ingredients. It is also important your vegan butter is at room temperature.
Once you have all your ingredients on hand your Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Bars can be made in a few simple steps.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients
- Cream the wet ingredients together
- Fold the dry ingredidents in with the wet
- Make the dough into balls and place on a baking tray
- Bake the cookies
- Serve!
Can I make these bars gluten-free?
Yes! You can make these Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Bars gluten-free as well! You can use gluten-free 1:1 flour or oat flour! Oat flour is definitely a good option! These bars are super delicious and moist!
For the gluten-free 1:1 baking flour, you can swap the same amount that you would use for all-purpose flour. With oat flour, you need to use a bit more and add a touch of arrowroot powder.
Cookie Bar Add Ins
One of the best things about these Oatmeal Cookie Bars is that you can add so many things to them!
- candied pecans
- vegan white chocoalte morsels
- dried cranberries
- cinnamon + nutmeg
You are absolutely going t love these bars! They are so chewy and tasty! Don’t forget they are SUPER easy to make!
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Other Vegan Recipes on the Blog
- Vegan Single Serve Cookies – 2 Ways
- Peanut Butter Banana Baked Oats
- Maple Butter Sugar Cookies
- Vegan Coffee Cake
- Edible Vegan Cookie Dough
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Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 1 egg replacer
- 1/2 cup date syrup
- 1/2 cup vegan butter room temperature
- 2/3 cup unsweetenedd apple sauce
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F, and line an 8×8 baking pan with parchment paper and oil.
- Whisk the dry ingredients: in a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.
- Mix the wet ingredients: in a bowl, cream together the vegan butter and date syrup, about 2-3 minutes. Then add in the applesauce and vanilla extract and mix again.
- Fold in the dry ingredients: add the dry ingredients to the wet and use a rubber spatula to gently fold together. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
- Bake the cookie bars: press the dough into the baking pan and bake for 25-27 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
