These chocolate chip coconut oat bars are made with healthier ingredients and are free of gluten, dairy, and refined sugar!
There’s nothing like the fragrance that comes from a sweet treat baking in the oven. It’s as if the aroma brings instant happiness to all who breathe it in. Do you remember the last time you were depressed while awaiting a delicious batch of cookies or brownies to finish baking? I surely don’t. 😉
These bars are made a little heartier thanks to rolled oats and shredded coconut. They’re also free of refined sugar (aside from the chocolate), dairy, and gluten.
What I like about bars is that they’re almost like cookies, but with a lot less fuss. You can throw the dough into the pan and have almost a half and hour while they bake away to work on something else.
One bowl, one pan, made with healthier ingredients and they’re delicious! I really can’t think of a reason why you shouldn’t make these chocolate chip coconut oat bars! Enjoy! 🙂
Chocolate Chip Coconut Oatmeal Bars
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Yield: 16 bars 1x
Description
These chocolate chip cookie bars are made with healthier ingredients and are free of gluten, dairy, and refined sugar!
Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats, divided
- 1 cup gluten-free measure for measure flour blend or unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 1 cup coconut sugar or brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup melted coconut oil or melted butter
- 2 flax eggs or regular eggs (2 tablespoons ground flax seed combined with 6 tablespoons water)
- 1/4 cup milk of choice (I used almond milk)
- 1 cup chocolate chips, plus more to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line an 8×8 pan with parchment or grease well and set aside.
- Take 1 1/2 cup of the rolled oats and grind in a coffee grinder or food processor to make oat flour. Place the oat flour into a large mixing bowl, along with the last 1/2 cup of whole oats, all-purpose flour, shredded coconut, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Mix together well and then stir in oil, flax eggs, and milk.
- Pour batter into the prepared pan and spread across evenly. Sprinkle extra chocolate chips over the top and place in preheated oven. Bake for 20–25 minutes or until the center is set and the top of the bars are golden brown. Don’t overbake.
- Remove from the oven and let cool thoroughly before cutting into bars. Store leftover bars in an airtight container in a cool place. Makes 9–12 servings.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins
- Category: Dessert
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These are amazing!! I am so glad I found this recipe. I’ve been looking for a copy cat recipe for the Pamela’s whenever bars and this is it! I actually prefer it better than the actual whenever bars.
Thank you!
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Hi Taylor, I’m so happy you enjoyed them! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review! 🙂
I love chocolate chips and would like to try these! But can you help me to convert the weighing into metric. Thanks
Hi Joscelyn! These look SO yummy!! Can’t wait to make them this week.
Shredded coconut- do you mean the dried desiccated coconut? Or fresh one?
Also, should/ can this be refrigerated before baking? I’m planning to make the batter at home and go my friends place and bake it. Is it a good idea to sit for 4 hours? Or just bake it and take it?
Hi Nitya, thank you so much! Im sorry for the confusion! Yes, I mean the dried desiccated coconut 🙂
I’m not sure how well the batter will do if refrigerated as I’ve never tried it myself. It should be fine, but it uses baking soda, which begins activating once the dry ingredients are mixed with the liquid ingredients. However, I don’t think it will make too much of a difference since they don’t rise much anyway.
I think the bars will taste good either way, but to me they are best when freshly baked! Let me know what you decide to do and how it goes! I truly hope you all enjoy them!
Hi there – do you think this would work without the shredded coconut? Or is there something I could potentially replace it with? I don’t have any any too afraid to go to the store these days! Thank you so much in advance, can’t wait to try!
Hi Katelyn, if you don’t have shredded coconut, why don’t you try these other bars instead: https://www.wifemamafoodie.com/chocolate-chip-oat-bars/
They’re essentially the same, only uses oat flour (which I make by grinding rolled oats in coffee grinder or food processor) and nut butter instead of shredded coconut.
If you did want to stick with this recipe, you may just need to blend in a little extra flour to replace some of the coconut if the batter seems really loose. It might be fine without it as well, just a little more gooey, but in a good melty chocolate chip cookie kind of way! Please let me know how it goes if you give them a try! 🙂
Thank you so much!! I’ll let you know how it goes.
OK so I ended up swapping the shredded coconut for crushed pecans and it turned out so well! Definitely going to try again once I can make it to the store for shredded coconut. These are yummy to the max!!! Thank you again 🙂
Thanks for the update, Katelyn! I’m so happy you enjoyed these! Love the idea of adding crushed pecans too! Will definitely have to try that sometime soon! Have a wonderful weekend!
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I can just imagine how these would crumble in my mouth, with chewy bits of rolled oats and hunks of rich, gooey, dark chocolate. Sounds like the perfect study snack to me!
These were delectable. Perfect amount of sweetness!!! Thank you!
I saw these on Instagram and found your blog as they looked too good to miss!
I made them today for a healthier end of the week treat…and they are amazing!! I halved your recipe as it’s just me and my boyfriend (and less is sometimes more), and they came out just like in your photos! 🙂
Thank you for such a tasty treat! I’m looking forward to trying more of your recipes…
I’m glad you enjoyed them as much as we did, Kirsti! Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback and I hope you’re able to find other recipes to try as well.. Have a wonderful weekend!
These are my PERFECT cookie! Coconut, oats, chocolate— there’s nothing better 🙂
They look amazing my friend. I love cookie like healthy bars, a treat for sure. They sound gooey and oh so good my dear. Having these in jars would be a so good on busy morning. Just lovely. Pinning for sure.
ohh i love chocolate chip
This looks healthy and delicious. Perfect combo!
Mmmm… I am so hungry now! These bars looks so tempting, Joscelyn. I could eat whole lot right away. Looks so good! ♥
Mmmmm….I am loving it… 🙂
That looks amazingly delicious. Wish I could grab some right now 🙂 Beautiful clicks.
Yum! I’m have a serious sweet tooth but try to make healthy choices. These look like they would combat both!
Oh. My. GOSH! How do you do it?? These bars look so decadent, thick, chewy and hands down amazing! I’m not even going to wait for a special occasion– I’m making these this week!
I love that you used oat flour for these brownies! I’ve never tried coconut sugar before, does it taste like regular sugar? I need to get to the store so I can pick up the ingredients for these, Pinned!
Oooooo my word. I can’t even breath. How do you manage to make these and take photos? I mean, they would be GONE by the time my camera got to them. So chocolately and moist! You amaze me! Your recipes and photos just knock my socks off EVERY time!
Woowwwww!! These look so amazing Joscelyn! I love chocolate and coconut together! Such beautiful oat bars. I definitely need to try these. Pinned! <3
These look delicious! I’ve been meaning to tell you about a new flour mix that I found. It is called gluten free mama’s and it is the coconut flour blend. I’ve tried SO many different ones over the last 15+ years and this one is hands down mine and Blake’s favorite! He requests the pancakes made with the mix every weekend. Other stuff has turned out awesome as well! 🙂
Thanks, Elizabeth! I really appreciate the tip. I’m always looking for a good gf blend. I haven’t heard of that brand before, but I will keep an eye out for it. Did you buy it at a local grocery or order online? A versatile blend is hard to come by, especially one with coconut flour! That would be amazing!
look at that gooey chocolate! I can never resist that! the bars look amazing, wish I could eat one right now!
Thanks, Manali! I can’t resist them either, especially fresh from the oven! YUM!