Healthy Vegan Date Banana Oat Bars with Coconut – Healthy, Nutritious and Delicious!

Healthy Vegan Date Banana Oat Bars with Coconut

These nutritious, vegan oatmeal bars made of bananas are what you’re looking to get up to every morning. Made with heart-healthy oats, shredded coconut, chopped banana and dates, they’re packed with both flavour and nutrition. If you’re feeling that you’re in need of some chocolate and you’re looking for a way to top it off, try topping them with melting dairy-free chocolate chips to create an extra sweet treat!

Breakfast-Sized or Snack-Sized

You can cut these bars into 8-16 pieces depending on how large you want each serving to be. If you make 16 bars out of this recipe, each bar will have 119 calories with 3.4 grams of fat, 20 grams of carbohydrates and 2.7 grams of protein. Not bad, not bad at all! Of course, if you leave out the chocolate the fat will be reduced to next to nothing.

I like to make 16 squares but if you plan to eat these for breakfast, you could cut them into 8 larger bars. The texture of these is similar to a muffin so they are quite filling either way! Oh, and they go very nicely with a cup of coffee as a mid-morning treat!

Options for Chocolate Topping

If you want to add the optional chocolate topping you can either melt some dark chocolate or dairy-free chocolate chips, or you can make your own chocolate ganache using the recipe below.

Quick Chocolate Ganache

• 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons maple syrup

Melt the coconut oil then gently stir in the the cocoa powder and maple syrup. Spread the mixture over the bars once they come out of the over. This will harden into chocolate ganache after chilled in the fridge.

Whether you make your own ganache or go store-bought, I’d definitely recommend going for the chocolate topping. I only used 4 tablespoons of chocolate chips to cover the whole batch, so it doesn’t actually add that much fat and sugar to the recipe.

I’ve made these with both homemade chocolate and melted chocolate chips and they’re delicious either way.

If you plan to take them on the road with you, I’d use melted dark chocolate or melted dairy-free chocolate chips as they won’t melt as quickly as the coconut oil chocolate ganache once at room temperature.

These oil-free bars have no added sugar so they aren’t super sweet however, the bits of dates and bananas add a really nice natural sweetness throughout. They’re gluten-free and vegan and really easy to make with just a few simple ingredients.

If you’re a fan of baked oat bars, I’ve posted a few others that require even fewer ingredients and taste just as good! Baked oat bars are vegan baking made super simple, pretty much fail-proof, low sugar, low fat with all the yumminess. See more recipes 

For similar recipes, check out my Strawberry Banana Protein Oat Bars, Baked Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars and my Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Cookies.