Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeals Bars

I love finding recipes for snacks and desserts which are healthy, low in calories and tasty! Thankfully we live in the world of Pinterest now and finding such recipes is much easier than it ever was. I also love to find recipes made and tested by the real people - not professional chefs - I just trust them more and I know it will be less tricky to find all the needed ingredients! Yesterday we decided to make something on a whim and the results were tasty and healthy - enjoy! You can taste a hint of peanut butter and bananas and the bars are not very sweet (I guess you can add more sugar or peanut butter if you want them sweeter). They are great post-workout snack full of protein and fiber, and low in sugar and fat.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 large mashed banana
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 180 C.

Mix together the quick cooking oats, light brown sugar, baking powder, salt and ground cinnamon. 

Add in the vanilla extract, milk and egg. Mix the ingredients together.

Then add in the mashed banana and peanut butter. Combine all of the ingredients.

Pour the mixture into a lightly greased 8 by 8 inch metal baking pan. Bake at  180 C degrees for around 35 minutes (we baked them for an hour, because it turned out that our pan is too big and we made an extra mixture).

Cut into squares and enjoy! (We left it overnight in a pan and took it all out in the morning, so they could cool off and be easily cut into squares.)