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.
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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 🙂
These granola bars are so much fun, Pamela! Pinned!
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
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!
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!!
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 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. 🙂
These granola bars look amazing! I love the idea of using a cake batter- that’s great! 🙂
Cake batter granola bars sound delicious. Love the colors of the sprinkles too!
What a great granola bar! Cake batter + granola sounds pretty fantastic!
These look amazing, the perfect combination of naughty and nice!! So happy to have found your blog.
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 🙂
Wow!! These looks delightful!! So yummy! great idea to add sprinkles! Really tasty and super cute!!