My kids are pretty much granola bar fanatics. If I let them, I’m certain they’d eat a granola bar for breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner. If you are familiar with the snack recipe archives around here, you know this isn’t my first granola bar recipe. You can’t have too many. You just can’t.
These are actually quite different from all my other bar recipes. I’m crazy excited about this flavor combination. I learned that I don’t use pecans often enough. Pecans+dried cranberries+cinnamon+honey=heaven. Do you like pecan pie? That’s what these babies taste like. YES! I’ll take my breakfast or snack bar tasting like pie. Yes, please.
They might taste like pie, but don’t let that fool you. This is a healthy granola bar recipe filled with the goodness of chia seeds, flaxseed meal, and oats. The texture is chewy and they are just sweet enough. 
These could not be easier to make and this makes a big batch. There’s nothing worse than taking the time to make a batch of homemade snacks and then have them be gone in half a day. Am I right?
These granola bars were a big hit with both kids. That’s a feat in itself–getting both kids to agree and love a recipe? WIN! 
I hope these are a hit with your family, too!
Pecan Cranberry Granola Bar Recipe
- Total Time: 23 mins
- Yield: 18 1x
Description
These Pecan Cranberry Granola Bars are chewy, easy to make, and make a healthy snack.
Ingredients
- 2 cups pecans, roughly chopped
- 1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
- 1/3 cup chia seeds
- 1/3 cup flaxseed meal
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 cup dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a 9X11 inch baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together the pecans, oats, chia seeds, flaxseed meal, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt.
- Add the eggs and honey and mix well.
- Stir in the cranberries until evenly distributed.
- Press the mixture into the baking dish lined with parchment paper.
- Take a second piece of parchment paper and press it down on top of the mixture. Use something heavy, like a canned good, to press the mixture down very firmly. *Important–don’t skip this step as it helps ensure the bars hold together well.* Save the piece of parchment paper for after baking.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 13 minutes.
- Put the parchment paper on top of the mixture again, pressing it down firmly one more time.
- Place the dish in the fridge until cooled completely, at least 20 minutes.
- Pull the parchment paper out of the pan and cut the mixture into 18 bars. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 13 mins
- Category: snack
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bar
- Calories: 168
- Sugar: 10.1g
- Sodium: 77.6mg
- Fat: 10.6g
- Saturated Fat: 1.1g
- Carbohydrates: 17.4g
- Fiber: 3.6g
- Protein: 3.6g
- Cholesterol: 31mg
Thank you for the great recipe. I agree, if I am baking or cooking, I want to make enough to last a bit. Love the flavors in this recipe and that great ingredients like chia and flax were incorporated. This will be in my normal rotation and I can see switching out some ingredients to create different types of bars.
So happy to hear! If you get a chance, I’d love you to leave a star rating. It really helps with getting my recipes noticed on google as well as helps other readers see which recipes are reader favorites!
I love the flavor combo used in these healthy granola bars 🙂 Bookmarked to try soon!
Great recipe. We used cranberries, chocolate chips and pecans. Mine were a bit thinner than yours, but that didn’t matter. They turned out great!
A flawlessly perfect recipe!!! Huge hit at our house love it !
I like the simplicity of this recipe. I added a lot more honey then the recipe calls for, but overall it’s fantastic!
“Healthy homemade granola bars. This recipe is easily customizable. You can substitute the dried fruit, pecans, and chocolate morsels out for what you like.”
These sound delicious! I’m always looking for new flavor for making granola bars at home and I just so happen to have a big bag of pecans needing to be used. My only question is, are they more of a crunchy or a chewy type of bar?
These are more chewy. 🙂
Thes kook good. I think I will try this using some craisins and raisins.
I hope you love these!
Did you use sweetened or unsweetened cranberries and if unsweetened where can u get them. I have a hard time finding them.
I have a hard time finding unsweetened cranberries, too. I used organic sweetened ones for these, and the nutritional stats include them. You could always sub raisins if you don’t want to use the sweetened cranberries.
Those look absolutely beautiful!! And I am sure they are quite tasty too!! 🙂
Thank you, Kathy! We love them. 🙂
Can I just say that these bars look beautiful!!
And they sound delicious! Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of these bars, but with that little prep time I’m gonna whip these up on the weekend! 🙂
Thanks, Kate! I hope you love them!