Gluten-Free Oatmeal Spice Bars

These homemade gluten-free oatmeal spice cereal bars with raisins are a great alternative to store-bought granola bars—and they taste better too! While baking, the nutmeg and cinnamon will give off a wonderful aroma that will make your kitchen smell awesome.

I love making a batch of these bars on the weekend and enjoying them all week long. They can be crumbled and added to yogurt with some fresh berries for a simple breakfast yogurt parfait and crumbled over a little light ice cream, frozen yogurt, or banana “nice cream” for a light dessert.

How Many Calories and WW Points in these Gluten-Free Oatmeal Spice Bars?

According to my calculations, each oatmeal bar has about 130 calories.

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Oatmeal Spice Bar Ingredients

• 1 medium rip banana
• 1 tablespoon canola oil
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 large egg whites
• 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 cup almond meal (or almond flour)
• 2/3 cup Truvia Baking Blend (affiliate link) (for favorite no-calorie sweetener)
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1 cup crispy rice cereal

How to Make Gluten-Free Oatmeal Raisin Spice Bars, Step-by-Step

Step 1: Gather and prepare all ingredients.

Step 2: Place baking rack in lower third of oven and preheat to 350F degrees. Lightly spray a 9×9-inch baking pan with nonstick spray or line pan with parchment paper and lightly spray.

Step 3: In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the mashed banana, oil, molasses, vanilla and egg whites until thoroughly combined.

Step 4: In a large mixing bowl (affiliate link), whisk together the oats, almond flour, no-calorie sweetener, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder until well mixed.

Step 5: Pour the banana mixture into the oat mixture and mix well. Stir in the raisins and crispy rice cereal.

Step 6: Spoon mixture into prepared pan and smooth into an even layer.

Step 7: Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean, about 15-20 minutes.

Step 8: Cool in a pan on wire rack for about 5 minutes before cutting into bars and removing from pan to cool completely. Alternatively, if you’ve lined the pan with parchment you can lift the bars from the pan and place on a cutting board (affiliate link).

Cut into 12 bars and place on a wire rack to cool completely.

Step 9: Store any leftover bars in an airtight container at room temperature.

Recipe Notes

Chopping raisins can quickly get a little sticky. To chop your raisins quickly and easily, be sure you are using a sharp knife and give the knife blade a few squirts of nonstick spray and lightly grease with olive oil. This will ensure the knife glides through the raisins while chopping and that they don’t end up stuck to the knife.

This little kitchen knife sharpener (affiliate link) can be both a lifesaver and timesaver.

If you don’t have almond flour or almond meal, you can easily make your own. Simple place whole almonds in a food processor (affiliate link) or high-powered blender (affiliate link) (such as VitaMix (affiliate link)), and process until they are the texture of coarse sand (for almond meal) or a little finer (for almond flour).

Serving Suggestions

These chewy cereal bars can be individually wrapped and make wonderful grab-and-go treats, can be tucked away in lunchboxes or arranged on a platter when serving a group.

Ways to Use Leftovers

Leftover bars can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Crumble a bar over some plain nonfat Greek yogurt and top with fresh blueberries or sliced strawberries for a simple breakfast parfait.

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Recipe source: Eat What You Love Everyday (affiliate link) by Marlene Koch

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