These Healthy No-Bake Flapjacks are delicious breakfast oatmeal peanut butter bars made with 5 simple wholesome ingredients. Plus, these oatmeal squares are also vegan, dairy-free, and gluten-free!
A healthy flapjack is a baked oatmeal bar usually served in a square shape and made of 5 simple ingredients: rolled oats or porridge oats, golden syrup, brown sugar, and butter.
Some recipes add dried fruits, chocolate chips, or coconut to the mix. It’s a traditional English recipe served for an on-the-go breakfast.
The classic English flapjack recipe is not vegan because it contains butter. However, this healthy flapjack recipe is made with only plant-based ingredients, it’s therefore, vegan-friendly.
Ingredients and Substitutions
All you need to make these no-bake vegan flapjacks are:
- Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats – you can also use porridge oats or instant oats, but the texture is less crunchy and crumbly.
- Maple Syrup – or any unrefined liquid sweetener you love, like agave syrup or rice syrup.
- Coconut Oil – you can’t use another oil in this recipe. These no-bake flapjack bars hold their shape because of the coconut oil that turns solids under 73°F (23°C). If you don’t like the flavor of coconut, use refined coconut oil, it’s less healthy, but it doesn’t have a coconut flavor compared to cold-pressed unrefined coconut oil.
- Peanut Butter – this peanut butter flapjack no-bake recipe works better with drippy, natural peanut butter. It means a fresh jar of peanut butter is recommended because it combines much easier into the dry ingredients, not leaving any lumps in the mixture. You can also use cashew butter, almond butter, or tahini in this recipe.
Optional Ingredients
This recipe works with these basics 5 wholesome ingredients. However, adding a combo of nuts and seeds or a touch of chocolate make these bars even better! I listed below my favorite add-ons to bring out the best flavor to these simple raw flapjack bars:
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla extract
- Sea salt
- Pumpkin seeds – or a combo of seeds and chopped nuts like hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, chopped walnuts, or almonds.
- Chocolate chips – or melted chocolate to dip half of the bar and create a crunchy chocolate layer.
How To Make No-Bake Healthy Flapjacks
A no-bake flapjack bar is a healthy version of the classic flapjack recipe, more nutrient-dense as it’s a raw vegan bar made with raw ingredients. All the instructions are in the recipe card below, but I’ve included key steps here:
Storage Instructions
You can store the no-bake flapjack squares in a sealed container in the fridge or freezer. They are delicious cold even frozen! I recommend adding a piece of parchment paper between each square to prevent them from sticking to each other.
The raw bars store for up to one week in the fridge and 3 months in the freezer.
More No-Bake Recipes
I love raw vegan baking recipes for breakfast or dessert. They are packed with nutrients, easy to make and so convenient as a snack or quick on-the-go breakfast.
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Healthy No-Bake Flapjacks
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats
- ¼ cup Seeds of Choice - I used half pumpkin seeds, half sunflower seeds
- ¼ cup Maple Syrup
- ⅓ cup Peanut Butter (Unsalted) - drippy, fresh jar
- ⅓ cup Melted Coconut Oil - use refined if you don't like coconut flavor
Optional ingredients – recommended for flavor!
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
Chocolate coating – optional
- ¾ cup Dairy-Free Dark Chocolate Chips - or 70% cocoa chocolate
- ½ teaspoon Coconut Oil
Instructions
- Line an 8-inch x 8-inch baking pan (or 9-inch x 5-inch rectangle baking pan) with parchment paper. Slightly oil the paper with coconut oil. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients: old-fashioned rolled oats, pumpkin seeds, salt, and cinnamon, if used. Set aside.
- In another small mixing bowl, stir drippy peanut butter, melted coconut, and maple syrup. If your peanut butter is not drippy or slightly hard, microwave the bowl for 20 seconds to soften. It makes it easier to combine.
- Stir the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients until evenly combined.
- Pour the mixture into the lined pan and press it firmly into the pan with the back of a silicone spatula or a spoon. You must pack the mixture tightly and smoothen the top of the bar to avoid holes in the bar – these holes would make the bars fall apart when you cut them later on.
- Freeze the pan for 15-20 minutes until the bar is hard and set.
- Remove the pan from the freezer, pull out the hanging pieces of parchment paper to release the flapjack bar, and transfer to a chopping board.
- Using a sharp, long knife, cut the bar into 16 squares. Place the squares in a sealed container, placing a piece of parchment between each square to prevent them from sticking together.
Optional – chocolate coating
- Place the container with the bar in the freezer again while you melt the chocolate.
- Add vegan dark chocolate chips and coconut oil to a small mixing bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat until fully melted.
- Remove the container from the freezer and dip the bottom of the frozen flapjack bars into the melted chocolate. Place upside down on a plate until the chocolate layer is set. You can also pop the plate in the freezer to seal the chocolate faster.
I have just made these for the first time – absolutely delicious! I will look forward to trying some of the other recipes too!
Made them not tried them yet but I think they will be delish, waiting for them to cool
Do you have a good coconut oil replacement? I am severely allergic to coconut oil.
For no bake recipe the only replacement is cocoa butter. Other oils don’t firm up at room temperature and won’t set the bars hard.
Wow
I’m going to be making these recipes . Thank you
These are great! I’ve made them several times. Everyone loves them. I’ve used both peanut butter and almond butter. They come together very quickly. I’ve added unsweetened coconut with good results.
this seems to be a simple recipe.
I would try soon. Will let you know further.
Can you use almond butter instead if peanut butter in the no bake flapjack recipe.
Thanks
Denise
Sure, same amount