Tasty Peanut Butter Granola is made with peanut butter, honey, coconut oil, and a few flavor enhancers. Toss shredded coconut and chocolate chips into your granola if you like!
Peanut Butter Granola Recipe
We go through granola like crazy in my home; it’s always being snacked on or added to breakfasts. It’s so fun to try different flavor variations and Peanut Butter Granola has been on repeat the last few months.
Granola is a great healthy snack to make in advance and reap the benefits of having it throughout the week. Add it to the top of a smoothie or shake, grab a bag of it for an on-the-go morning, or add it to a yogurt bowl. There are so many ways to use homemade granola and below I’ll share some more of our favorite ways to use it.
Quick Tip
Give the granola time to harden. The granola will still seem soft after baking, because it needs a few hours to firm up. Don’t cover or package the granola until it is completely cooled and hardened
Ingredients In Peanut Butter Granola
- Creamy Peanut Butter: Provides flavor and binds the granola together.
- Honey: Sweetens the granola and acts as a binding agent.
- Melted Coconut Oil: Helps in baking and crisping up the granola.
- Vanilla Extract: Adds a pleasant aroma and flavor.
- Salt & Cinnamon: Enhances the flavors and balances out sweetness. Adds warmth and spice flavor.
- Old Fashioned Oats: The main bulk of the granola, provides texture and is the primary ingredient to be coated and baked.
- Coconut & Chocolate Chips: Add texture, flavor, and an added crispy or melty element depending on their use and when they’re added to the granola.
How To Make Peanut Butter Granola
It’s as easy as 1,2,3…
- In a bowl, combine peanut butter, honey, coconut oil, vanilla extract, salt, and cinnamon. Stir until smooth, microwaving for 10-15 seconds if necessary.
- Using old-fashioned oats (avoid quick or steel-cut), pour in the wet mixture and stir thoroughly, ensuring all oats are coated.
- Spread onto a lined baking tray and bake, stirring every 7 minutes for even cooking.
FAQs
Is Adding Peanut Butter To Oatmeal Healthy?
Peanut butter is a great source of protein and healthy fats. Peanut butter has a lot of calories, but that also means a little goes a long way towards filling you up. As with all things, in moderation and with proper portion control, peanut butter is a great, healthy addition to oatmeal.
What Can I Eat With Granola?
- As a quick snack: A few handfuls of granola as is makes a great, fast snack.
- In a parfait: Layer honey vanilla yogurt with Peanut Butter Granola, and a layer of freshly sliced bananas. Top off the parfait with a drizzle of peanut butter.
- As cereal: Pour a bowl of this granola and add in some milk for a healthy filling breakfast.
- Sprinkle over yogurt: Add to a container of yogurt for a great on-the-go snack.
- On apple slices: Dip an apple in peanut butter and then dip it in this granola.
- In an açaí bowl: Add a few tablespoons of granola right on top.
- Here are 14 other ways to use homemade Peanut Butter Granola!
The oats and nuts often found in granola offer impressive amounts of fiber, iron, protein, and healthy unsaturated fats. While there are so many good health benefits from eating granola, it’s also important to practice portion control. Granola is often high in calories and typically high in fat.
More Breakfast Recipes
- Parfait with granola and berries
- Blueberry Pancakes buttermilk pancakes with fresh blueberries
- Nutella Crepes with fresh fruit
- Famous Kneader’s copycat French Toast
- Peanut Butter Overnight Oats reader favorite!
Peanut Butter Granola
Equipment
- large sheet pan,
- Parchment paper or silicone baking mat
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/3 cup honey
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 cups old fashioned oats not quick oats or steel cut oats
- 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips or chopped chocolate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat and set aside. Measure out the oats in a large bowl and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine the peanut butter, honey, and coconut oil (measure when melted). Add in vanilla extract, salt (reduce if sensitive to salt or if your peanut butter is salted), and ground cinnamon. Stir until smooth. If needed, microwave for 10–15 seconds to get to a stir-able consistency.
- Once wet ingredients are combined, pour into the oats. Use a spatula to scrape all the wet ingredients into the oats. Mix until ingredients are combined and well incorporated.
- Spread mixture on the prepared sheet pan. Bake for 7 minutes, stir the ingredients, bake another 7 minutes, stir again, and return to the oven for 4 more minutes. At this point, you can add the coconut flakes (toss) and bake another 3–4 minutes if you want the coconut toasted. This will give you about 21 minutes total bake time. Remove from oven and toss once more.
- Remove and allow the granola to cool until firm and hardened into granola (which takes about 3–4 hours). Stir in the chocolate once the granola is completely cool (unless you want the chocolate to melt into the granola).If you do want melty chocolate peanut butter granola, add the chocolate after the granola has cooled for about 5–7 minutes, then let the chocolate cool with the granola (don’t toss it).
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Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This looks amazing! Pinned!
I love this! It still looks pretty healthy but a treat as well. I would never skip the chocolate 🙂
I’ve got to make some of that peanut butter cup granola! Your photos are gorgeous, as always!
Why don’t I eat more breakfasts like these?? Seriously, I need to get with it! Looks delish girly.
This peanut butter granola looks just perfect.
This sounds so incredibly fabulous. I am a huge fan of peanut butter and chocolate together and well, if I can eat those two things for breakfast then I’m definitely on board.
Both the granola itself and yogurt parfait sound great and very delicious!
I love the peanut butter in this. Wish I had one right now! Pinning!
Oh Chels these look so yummy! Mark is going to be thrilled that you made them!
Anytime I can eat peanut butter for breakfast is sure to be the best meal of the day.