Healthy Oat Bites (Bobo's Copycat Recipe)

Healthy Oat Bites (Bobo's Copycat Recipe)

from saltedplains.com
Breakfast
33 min
6 servings
285 kcal / serving

These strawberry-filled oat bites are a wholesome, gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free snack inspired by Bobo’s oatcakes. Made with simple ingredients like oats, maple syrup, and a strawberry jam filling, they’re perfect for meal prep, lunchboxes, or a healthy on-the-go breakfast.

Ingredients

  • 2 cupsgluten-free rolled oats
  • ½ teaspoonbaking soda
  • ½ teaspoonsalt
  • ¼ teaspooncinnamon (optional, but recommended)
  • ⅓ cupmaple syrup (or honey (if not vegan))
  • ¼ cupavocado oil (or melted coconut oil)
  • 2 tablespoonsalmond butter
  • 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
  • 6 teaspoonsstrawberry jam

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease 6 muffin cups of a nonstick muffin tin.

  2. 2

    Add the gluten-free rolled oats, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, maple syrup, avocado oil, almond butter, and vanilla extract in the bowl of a food processor. Process on low to medium until you have smaller pieces of oats and a thick dough forms.

  3. 3

    Put half of the oat mixture into the bottoms of 6 muffin cups (about 2 tablespoons per muffin cup), so that it fills the bottom completely. The dough will be sticky; put some cooking spray or lightly wet your fingers to help with the stickiness.

  4. 4

    Make a slight indention with the back of a teaspoon in the middle of each cup. Spoon about 1 teaspoon of the strawberry filling onto the center indention of each base leaving room around the edges.

  5. 5

    Divide the remaining oat mixture and place on top of each muffin cup, pressing down gently to seal the edges.

  6. 6

    Bake for 16-18 minutes. Allow cups to cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing and transferring to a wire cooling rack. Use a knife to help loosen the edges of the cups.