Homemade Kind Bars

Homemade Kind Bars are a chewy high protein energy bar that are super easy to make at home and the perfect post workout snack.

I’m a huge snack bar fan. I love finding healthy energy bars that are quick grab and go snacks.

When Kennedy was first born I basically lived off Kind Healthy Grain Bars. I made sure to always have one in the nursery. Ready for the early morning feeding

I loved that they were a combination of chewy and crunchy. Plus there were some healthy grains in there to help keep me full until the next feeding.

But after checking out the sugar content, and the second ingredient being cane sugar, I wanted to figure out a way to make these myself.

Since I wanted to duplicate the peanut butter dark chocolate Kind bar, I decided to use the base from two of my favorite recipes: Peanut Butter Granola Cups and Healthy Scotcheroo Bars.

This base is so easy to make and can be used in a multitude of ways.

So let’s dive in to how simple it is to make these homemade Kind Bars yourself.

How to make homemade Kind Bars

The Grains in Kind Bars

If you’ve never had one of the Healthy Grains Kind Bars, this is going to be a slightly different recipe than you’re used to seeing from Kind Bars.

This particular bar is focused more on healthy grains like oats and quinoa, millet and amaranth.

Now, this isn’t an ingredient for ingredient copycat recipe.

I instead focused on some of the healthy grains I had on hand and keeping the flavor and consistency the same.

So the healthy grains I ended up using were oats, quinoa, oat flour and flaxseed meal.

All of these ingredients are packed with protein and make this a heart healthy snack.

The Sticky Side

Obviously we need something to hold all of our dry ingredients together.

Enter that sweet and sticky base I mentioned earlier.

It’s a combination of honey, pure maple syrup, a little pure cane sugar and peanut butter.

If you’ve ever made scotcheroos before, it’s the same premise where you have to cook the sugars down a little and add in the peanut butter at the end to get nice and melty.

Press, Bake and Cut

Once all of the dry and sticky ingredients have been mixed together thoroughly, it’s time to press them into a pan.

I prefer to use a large jelly roll pan here.

This way the bars are a little thicker than the typical Kind Bars, but will hold together nicely.

The batter is probably too much to comfortably fit in a 9″ x 13″ pan. But you could always split it among two of those pans to create the same effect.

All that’s left is to bake the bars {there’s egg whites in the batter, so baking is necessary}.

Once the bars have cooled, you can cut into larger squares for your perfect homemade Kind Bar.

Homemade Kind Bar Post Workout

These bars are perfect for so many different occasions.

Whether you want to eat one as a post workout snack or a healthy after school snack for your kids.

They’re also amazing crumbled up and used in place of granola.

With all the healthy grains and protein packed peanut butter, you’ll feel good about enjoying these easy homemade Kind Bars all year long.

Looking for more easy homemade snacks? Check these out:

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Copycat Lara Bars

Dark Chocolate Cherry Energy Bites

No Bake Cookie Dough