Cake Batter Granola Bars
Cake Batter Granola Bars that taste just like birthday cake and are topped with chocolate chips and sprinkles! This is such a easy recipe, that even kids can help with!
One of my absolute favorite afternoon snacks is a granola bar to add some fuel, but who says your granola bars can’t be sweet too?
Basing this on my Chocolate Chip Granola Bars and Peanut Butter Pretzel Chocolate Chip Granola Bars recipes I wanted to create a granola bar that was filling with oats but tasted more like a pastry. To be exact I wanted it to taste like cake batter because shouldn’t everything? Alongside the other ingredients I added in some dry cake mix which was a great partner to pair with the oats when the wet ingredients are added in to make everything stick together.
Not only do these definitely taste like cake batter, but they smell just like cake too. Isn’t it just wonderful? You can totally be fun with the sprinkle colors too. Maybe add red and green for Christmas, or bright yellow for Summer time picnic treats!
Next time you’re craving granola bars or cake batter, give these a shot and let me know what you think!
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Cake Batter Granola Bars
Cake Batter Granola Bars that taste just like birthday cake and are topped with chocolate chips and sprinkles! This is such a easy recipe, that even kids can help with!
Ingredients
- 2 cups quick cooking oats
- 1 cup crispy rice cereal
- 2/3 cup cake mix dry
- 1/4 cup salted butter
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 tablespoons sprinkles
- 3 tablespoons white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Spray a 8x8 pan lightly with cooking spray.
- Mix your oats, cereal, cake mix and 2 tablespoons sprinkle together in a large bowl.
- In a small saucepan melt butter, brown sugar and honey on medium high heat until melted. Once it begins to bubble change heat to low and stir for 2 minutes.
- Remove saucepan from burner and stir in your vanilla.
- Pour your hot mixture over your oats mixture. Stir well. You want to make sure every single piece of oats and cereal is coated.
- Pour your mixture into your greased pan and push down with spatula to flatten it.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons sprinkle over top evenly. Use your spatula to press them down so they are embedded in the bars.
- Cover with plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator to set for 1 hour.
- Take out and cut into bar sizes.
- Store in airtight container in refrigerator to keep them fresh.
These granola bars double as dessert! I love it — they’re so fun and look delicious. 🙂
Nice, I like the colored sprinkles! 🙂 ela
Sounds like your having fun in Toronto, love these bars and the cute little sprinkles!
I love your tasty cool bars a lot! I love the pink & purple sprinkles on top too! I need them in my life, for sure! x
Granola bars as dessert?? Awesome! Or a snack too : ) I love the sprinkles you have on them – such fun!
Ooo these sound wonderful. I love a granola bar as a snack to and I bet these taste divine!
Love the sprinkles and the way you’ve whipped these up in a flourish. Such a great recipe, the best granola bars by far!
Ooooh I love cake! These fun looking bars are such a great idea Pamela!
Everything SHOULD taste like cake batter, and I’d eat anything that tasted like it. And by gosh, are they pretty!
Please tell me you brought some of these with you to Toronto! Also where did you have poutine?! Try out prohibitions or Farmhouse Tavern’s poutine! Insanely good!
They look wonderful! The sprinkles are such a fun touch.
These are the prettiest granola bars, I love that they double as dessert. The sprinkles are just so fun and girly too 🙂 Yay, so glad you got to try poutine too 🙂
They are birthday party cute all right. Interesting in adding the cake mix. I will admit it got me curious!
These are so cute and festive, perfect for a kid’s party (or an adult’s party for that matter!)
What a great idea! I would never have thought to put cake mix in granola bars. I have a feeling these would come in handy when u start to crave a sweet snack at 3 I the afternoon, but know I ought to choose something healthy. These are the best if both worlds!
Who would’ve ‘thunk’ it – cake batter in granola bars? Leave it to y.o.u. !! Now – about POUTINE!!!!!!!! Whenever we had visitors to our farm in St. Antoine de Tilly (near Quebec City), they’d always want to head right out to our neighborhood place for poutine!! And – I just wonder…. is the poutine in English-speaking Canada nearly as good as in Quebec? (Aaah – I’m just being prejudice!) Have you ever seen some of the photos I posted of my farm in Quebec? I think you’d like them. Damn… I miss it, but luckily I at least have the ‘farmhouse’ here in Massachusetts if not the farm!
I am a big fan of these granola bars, delicious cake batter flavouring 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
These look delicious! I love anything I can pass as healthy but contains cake mix 🙂 Have fun in Toronto!
Cake batter everything would be quite nice!! Love the sprinkles, too. Such a great idea to switch them out for festive holiday colors!
I’m always craving cake batter! And oats 🙂 Love this Pamela!
I love cake batter! My munchkins love granola bars so this looks like a winning combination in my book.
Granola bars are a favorite snack around here I can’t wait to try this version!
Pamela these are super cute.! I love the purple sprinkles and that you added rice crisp cereal. These could easily double as a dessert and a healthy snack 😀
Suchhhh beautiful colours. I love making cake in any form – bars included. will give this a go. thaaaanks Farm girl x
Oh my gosh so jealous! I want to try poutine so bad!!! How was it? Besides the whole not being able to move after. And these cake batter granola bars sound awesome! I love cake batter flavored anything! Well, almost anything haha.
These are a great idea, Pamela. Healthy, but not TOO healthy. I like your philosophy!
Yes, everything should taste like cake batter! I don’t think I could stop at one with these bars. Hope Toronto is fun!
Ooh these look so pretty! Cake batter was my favourite thing in the universe as a kid. We’d be lucky if we ended up with half a baked cake by the time I was done “licking the bowl”.
Aahahha I LOVE poutine – you can get it in some places in SF now, and it’s a dangerous thing because I also end up not moving once I eat it.
I’ve never had Poutine, but always figured not being able to move for awhile after eating it was probably pretty inevitable! Anyway, lovely granola — you done good. And we’ll do good when we make it. Thanks.
Cake batter granola bars?! Snack time just got super exciting!!!!! Mmmm this should be the perfect swap out for my current blah afternoon snack of plain greek yogurt and cinnamon. {I said it was blah}
Wow!! These looks delightful!! So yummy! great idea to add sprinkles! Really tasty and super cute!!
So I’m gonna go ahead and make about a zillion of these because that has tickled my curiosity to the max. Hope you had fun in Toronto – always a place I wanted to visit 🙂
These look amazing, the perfect combination of naughty and nice!! So happy to have found your blog.
What a great granola bar! Cake batter + granola sounds pretty fantastic!
Cake batter granola bars sound delicious. Love the colors of the sprinkles too!
These granola bars look amazing! I love the idea of using a cake batter- that’s great! 🙂
I LOVE these sooooo much. I’m planning a food scavenger hunt for my bestie, these are top of list to be included. They are so pretty, nice idea changing the colours depending on the time of year too. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Beautiful – these look almost good enough to be party fare! I may have to try these the next time the grandkids are over!
I love granola bars and get bored easily with my plain recipes. This cake batter version is going to make me happy for a while!!
I have been wanting to try homemade granola bars lately (I really don’t know why I haven’t yet), and cake batter anything is amazing! I think these are a winner!
These are so gorgeous! Perfect for a party or baby shower with those cute, colourful sprinkles! I never would’ve thought of adding cake batter to a granola bar but I can imagine the flavour punch. Yum, definitely making these! Love the photos Pam x
These granola bars are so much fun, Pamela! Pinned!
These are super pretty and I should imagine super tasty too. I love granola bars and mixing it with cake mix sounds like an interesting idea. One to try 🙂