Should Make Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Bars

Mini chocolate chips soften collectively and pair completely with nutty almond butter in these Should-Make Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Bars. Made with coconut oil, oats and honey, these bars come collectively rapidly and disappear even quicker as soon as you are taking them out of the oven. The photographs from this 2017 weblog put up just lately bought a bit refresh so I’m sharing it right here once more at this time and hope you get pleasure from these bars as should as we do!

There’s something about baking that relaxes me and makes me blissful. As I measure the substances and blend all the pieces collectively, I get that acquainted feeling of consolation that appears to floor each time I lick beaters filled with oatmeal cookie dough or chunk right into a heat brownie contemporary out of the oven.

A couple of weeks in the past, once we invited our neighbors over for an off-the-cuff weeknight cookout, I needed to whip up a quick dessert that may be simple to seize as we chatted away and figured welcoming company into our dwelling was the proper excuse to bake up a candy deal with! I shared a number of footage of the baking course of after I first made these bars on Instagram Tales, and a bunch of you requested the recipe, so I made positive to make the bars once more and measure all the pieces out so I might share the total recipe for these almond butter chocolate chip cookie bars with you at this time on the weblog. (And, let’s be trustworthy, it was an awesome excuse to make these bars once more for our little household to get pleasure from!)

For the lazy bakers on the market (ahem, me), I’ve excellent news for you. It is a one-bowl recipe so effort is minimal, dishes are minimal and any baking errors are positive to be minimal with this simple peasy bars recipe.

Elements

So what do you have to make these chocolate chip almond butter bars? Right here’s the rundown:

Almond butter: However you already figured that, didn’t you, you smartie pants? And sure, you could swap peanut butter for the almond butter if that’s extra your factor.
Coconut oil: I like utilizing this model as a result of it’s already melted for you.
Vanilla extract: To cite my center little one, “It makes all the pieces style higher however don’t eat it by itself otherwise you’ll be sorry.”
Brown sugar + Honey: For that deliciously caramely sweetness
Egg: Only one
Flour + Oats: To maintain all of it collectively! And I’m sorry I don’t have an oat flour or gluten-free choice for these bars but when you perform a little experimenting they usually prove effectively, please let me know!
Baking soda + Sea salt: Simply your common baking necessities
Chocolate chips: Milk chocolate, semi candy or darkish chocolate chips, it’s as much as you! I do suggest utilizing mini chocolate chips on this recipe as a result of they soften into the bars and make them further chocolaty and virtually brownie-like. These bars style like an ideal hybrid between a chocolate chip cookie and an almond butter blondie. Heck yesssss.

Directions

Do not forget that one-bowl recipe I promised you? I wouldn’t lead you astray! Right here’s the way you make these easy and easily scrumptious chocolate chip almond butter bars:

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 levels. Combine almond butter, brown sugar, vanilla, honey, melted coconut oil and egg collectively in a big bowl till mixed. Slowly combine within the flour, oats, baking soda and salt.

Step 2

As soon as batter is totally mixed, stir in mini chocolate chips and unfold batter into an 8×8 baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.

Step 3

Bake for about 20-25 minutes or till prime is evenly browned. Permit bars to chill after which switch to the fridge for about half-hour or so earlier than serving to permit the bars to chill fully and set additional.

Slice into bars and revel in!

Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Bars Recipe