You don’t have to wait for the holidays to make this tasty dessert either. Oatmeal Cookie Bars never go out of season!

Today’s cookie bar recipe is the perfect way to shake up your cookie routine! We use toffee baking chips instead of chocolate to add a buttery sweetness and crunch to oatmeal cookie bars.

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Every bite of these bars is bursting with the delicious combination of coconut and toffee! I love the toasty oat flavor in these chewy bars too.

Best of all, cookie bars are quick and easy to make!

These Oatmeal Cookie Bars are Day 2 of our 12 Days of Cookies

Be sure to check out all of the other days for more goodies!
Day 1 – Fluffernutter Cookies
Day 2 – You’re on it!
Day 3 – Double Chocolate M&M Christmas Cookies
Day 4 – Lace Cookies
Day 5 – Whipped Shortbread
Day 6 – Chocolate Spritz Cookies
Day 7 – 3 Ingredient Sugar Free PB Cookies
Day 8 – Wasabi Chocolate Crinkles
Day 9 – Christmas Sprinkle Cookies
Day 10 – Stained Glass Cookies
Day 11 – Cream Cheese Meltaways
Day 12 – Peppermint Sugar Cookie Cups

What do I need?

To make Toffee Coconut Oatmeal Bars, you will need:

• butter
• brown sugar
• granulated sugar
• egg
• vanilla
• flour
• baking soda
• salt
• quick oats
• sweetened coconut
• toffee chips

In some ways this cookie bar recipe is even easier than regular oatmeal cookies. No shaping the dough into balls or baking in batches. Just press the dough into the pan, bake and let cool.

When the bars are completely cooled, slice them into squares and serve. These decadent dessert bars pair amazingly with a glass of milk or a hot cup of coffee.

Can I make cookie bars in advance?

These Oatmeal Coconut Bars can be made up to a couple of days before serving. In fact, I find they get even chewier the next day! Make sure to store them in an airtight container to keep them fresh.

After cooling and cutting, you can freeze the bars for longer storage. Stash them in freezer bags and keep frozen for up to several months. Let the bars thaw at room temperature or in the refrigerator until you’re ready to enjoy them.

Bar Recipes

I love making dessert bars all year long, but especially during the holidays! They seem even more impressive than regular cookies but don’t take much effort at all. We have plenty of spectacular bar recipes on this site to satisfy any craving.

If you have coconut leftover from making today’s cookie bars you’re ready to make Magic Cookie Bars next! They have a perfect graham cracker crust and plenty of ooey-gooey chocolate.

Looking for a no bake cookie bar? You’ll love my Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars and these Oreo Pudding Dream Bars too.

These Apple Oatmeal Bars are another variation on oatmeal bars that apple lovers rave about. And I can’t mention apple desserts without reminding you to try my Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars next time you need an indulgent dessert bar!

Cookie Recipes

Christmas time means Christmas COOKIES!

Along with the new recipes I’m sharing for the 12 Days of Cookies, we’ll be baking up these tried and true favorites from previous years again this season:

• Chocolate Coconut Cookies
• Coconut Macadamia Sugar Cookies
• Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies
• Stained Glass Cookies
• Vanilla Cut-Out Sugar Cookies

Toffee Coconut Oatmeal Bars are irresistible with a soft, chewy center and sweet toffee flavor. Make them for the holidays or any time of year!

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Toffee Coconut Oatmeal Bars

Kick off cookie baking season with these Toffee Coconut Oatmeal Bars! Crispy toffee and shredded coconut are folded into an oatmeal cookie bar for a chewy and sweet holiday treat.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword Oatmeal Bars, Toffee Coconut Oatmeal Bars

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 26 bars

Calories 242kcal

Author Lynne Feifer

Equipment

• Mixer
• 9 X 13-inch baking dish
• rubber spatula

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups butter room temperature
• ¾ cup packed dark brown sugar
• ⅓ cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 2 ½ cups quick oats
• 1 cup shredded sweetened coconut
• 8 oz toffee chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375°F and spray a 9 X 13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• In a mixer, cream the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and mix completely.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix in the oats, coconut, and toffee chips.
• With the mixer on low, gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed butter and sugar, and beat until completely combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Put dough into the prepared baking dish and spread evenly to all sides.
• Bake for about 25 – 30 minutes until bars are lightly browned and a tooth pick or cake tester inserted into the middle comes out clean.
• Place pan onto a wire rack to cool completely before cutting.

Nutrition

Serving: 1bar | Calories: 242kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 182mg | Potassium: 73mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 382IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg

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When I’ve got a busy day planned, an easy and delicious breakfast is a priority.

Yes, there are most definitely times when I’d love to make some Cinnamon Peach Pancakes, Cinnamon Rolls, Blintzes or these Loaded Huevos Rancheros, but it just isn’t in the cards.

Instead, a breakfast that I can make ahead the night before and eat with little to no prep the following morning is where it’s at!

Make-Ahead Breakfasts

• Chocolate Bear Claws
• Cinnamon Sour Cream Coffee Cake
• Crepes
• Cinnamon Sugar Palmiers
• Chocolate Croissant Baked French Toast

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What ingredients do I need to make overnight oats with almond milk?

• oats
  I used old fashioned or rolled oats in this recipe and think those are the best type to use, personally.
  On the oat spectrum so to speak, quick oats or 1-minute oats are too fine and will be too soggy.
  Steel cut oats are too thick and won’t soften enough to have them the next morning, but if you leave them in the fridge for two days, then you’ll be good.
• Almond milk
  Feel free to make this recipe with regular milk, soy milk, or another type of milk.
• Almond butter
  you can substitute it with peanut butter
• maple syrup or honey for a bit of sweetness
• chia or flax seeds
  both add additional nutrients and fiber, so either are a great addition to a healthy breakfast
• Banana
  you can’t make banana overnight oats without it!

How Do I Make Overnight Oats?

If you haven’t already made oatmeal overnight in the refrigerator before, then you might be a bit surprised at how easy it is.
Seriously.

1. Using a container with a tight-fitting lid or a mason jar, pour in the almond milk, oats, and chia or flax seeds.
   Mix to make sure all of the oat have been moistened, and maple syrup.
2. Mash the banana with a fork in a small bowl. Add the banana and almond butter to the oat mixture. Mix well.
3. Cover the contents securely with a lid and refrigerate for a minimum of 6 hours or overnight.
4. Remove from fridge and stir. Garnish with additional sliced banana, sliced or chopped almonds, and or fresh raspberries.

If you’re looking for an additional dairy-free breakfast recipes, try these Dairy-Free Lemon Poppy Seed Waffles, and these Dairy-Free Pumpkin Muffins.

More Delicious Breakfast Ideas

• Griddle Cakes with a Secret Ingredient – aka the BEST family pancake recipe for generations
• Raspberry Cream Cheese Scones
• Bacon – How To Bake Bacon in the Oven
• Breakfast Parfait Bar

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Almond Banana Overnight Oats

These Almond Banana Overnight Oats are an easy breakfast that are made the night before you plan to enjoy them. With almond milk, rolled oats almond butter, maple syrup, flax seeds and mashed banana, it's as easy as putting everything into a jar then stirring putting it into the refrigerator to set for the night.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Keyword Almond Overnight Oats, Banana Overnight Oats, Overnight Oats

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Refrigeration 6 hours hours

Total Time 6 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Calories 497kcal

Author Lynne Feifer

Equipment

• medium bowl
• Mason jar or container with a tight-fitting lid

Ingredients

• ½ cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
• ½ cup old fashioned or rolled oats
• 2 tablespoons Almond Butter
• 2 teaspoons Pure Maple Syrup
• 2 teaspoons chia or ground flax seeds
• ½ banana
• sliced or chopped almonds for garnish
• fresh raspberries for garnish

Instructions

• In a medium bowl with a tight-fitting lid or a mason jar, add the almond milk, oats, and chia or flax seeds. Mix to make sure all of the oat have been moistened, and maple syrup.
• In a small bowl, mash the banana with a fork and then add that and the almond butter to the oat mixture. Mix well.
• Cover the contents securely with a lid and refrigerate for a minimum of 6 hours or overnight.
• Remove from fridge and stir. Garnish with additional sliced banana, sliced or chopped almonds, and or fresh raspberries.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 497kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Sodium: 170mg | Potassium: 661mg | Fiber: 12g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 42IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 351mg | Iron: 4mg

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It’s that time of year.

And no, I’m not talking about the holidays, though it is definitely that time of year as well.
The time of year I’m talking about is cold and flu season.
I’m SO over it!

Things are going around, so be sure to stay hydrated, get plenty of rest and definitely be good to yourself. You can do this by making this Apple Oatmeal and enjoy a bottle of Shamrock Farms Cold Brew Coffee and Milk!

We went back to Rhode Island for Thanksgiving and had an absolutely wonderful time with family and friends. Soon after we arrived home, I came down with the sniffling-achy-stuffy-head-etc-fever kind of flu and am ready to kick it to the curb already.

When I’m sick like this I want my mommy. I want to veg on the couch under a blanket. I want the family to take care of me. When I’m up to eating, I want comfort food to warm my insides. When I want a drink, it’s lots of water. It’s me time, darn it!

Yesterday morning, this Apple Oatmeal paired with the Original Shamrock Farms Cold Brew Coffee and Milk was just what the doctor ordered. The oatmeal warmed my insides and the Cold Brew Coffee and Milk gave me the energy I needed to finish up some work because it contains 2X the amount of caffeine of regular coffee, and is smoother and less acidic. It’s 100% Colombian coffee combined with the great taste of Shamrock Farms Milk.

When we moved to Arizona in 2002, I quickly became familiar with Shamrock Farms dairy products, seeing them in the grocery stores. They’re a brand I’ve come to know, trust and use regularly. I like that their milk is free of any artificial growth hormones and sourced from local farms.

You can find their Cold Brew Coffee and milk in the coffee/juice refrigerated section of your Albertsons, Bashas’, AJ’s Fine Foods, Safeway, Sprouts and Quik Trip. Try any one or all of their three varieties – Original, Mocha and Vanilla.

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I’m especially psyched that Shamrock Farms came out with their Cold Brew Coffee and Milk. Being a Rhode Islander, coffee milk was a staple growing up. While coffee syrup isn’t readily available in Arizona as it is in Rhode Island (after all, coffee milk IS the official state drink!), Shamrock Farms has given me the next best thing! I love that I can now enjoy one of my favorite beverages any time of day.

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Shamrock Farms Cold Brew Coffee and Milk with Apple Oatmeal

This Shamrock Farms Cold Brew Coffee and Milk with Apple Oatmeal is a delicious breakfast combination. Enjoy the three NEW flavors of Shamrock Farms Cold Brew Coffee and Milk at breakfast or any time of day. It pairs perfectly with a warm bowl of Apple Oatmeal in the morning!

Author Lynne Feifer

Ingredients

• ½ cup instant oats
• 1 cup milk
• ½ apple peeled, cored and chopped
• 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
• Additional chopped apple chopped walnuts and raisins for topping, if desired.

Instructions

• In a small saucepan, combine all ingredients over medium heat.
• Bring to boil and cook until thickened.
• Serve with additional chopped apple, walnuts, or raisins.

If you like this Apple Oatmeal recipe then you’ll probably enjoy…

Cherry Oatmeal Muffins

Baked Blueberry Oatmeal

And try this Denver Scrambled Breakfast Braid, too!

Take a look at these delicious oatmeal recipes from my fellow bloggers…
Blueberry Chai Oatmeal from Lauren Kelly Nutrition
Cinnamon Roll Oatmeal from Around My Family Table
Tropical Coconut Oatmeal from Emilie Eats
Quick Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal from Five Heart Home
Blueberry Cheesecake Oatmeal from Food Faith Fitness

Check out these great videos for some delicious breakfast ideas!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Shamrock Farms. The opinions and text are all mine.

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It’s June!!!

In a large bowl, combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
In a small bowl, lightly beat the egg. Add the buttermilk and oil. Mix well to combine.
Pour the buttermilk mixture into the dry ingredients and mix until just moistened.
Fold in cherries.
Distribute the batter evenly among the 12 prepared muffin cups.

Bake for 20-22 minutes until slightly golden brown.

Transfer individual muffins to a wire rack to cool.

Pour buttermilk mixture into dry ingredients and combine.
The batter will be slightly lumpy. It’s ok.

Add cherries.

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Finally a granola bar recipe the kids will actually want before dinner. 

I’m already licking my chops wanting these bad boy granola bars.
With all these ingredients it’s like a granola bar on steroids.
Maybe I shouldn’t use that word, but it sure feels that way.
Eh, we’re going with it.

I never would have thought all of this could be in bar form.
Usually, I’m the one who eats everything plain and never mixes my meals.
Well, I guess I need to go out of my comfort zone a lot more often now, especially when the things I eat are this good. This chewy granola bar has everything you need, and I mean EVERYTHING.

Plus, the good thing is, or should I say great thing, is that you can add (or subtract) ingredients.
If you find something that works in this granola bar recipe, the more the merrier.
Get a little creative with it, and I’m sure it’ll be a weekly baking recipe.

If you really wanted to, you could call this the next protein bar. Maybe I’m pushing it a little but you could surely do something of the sort with this.
I just love now that when I make these, I wake up and my craving for a big breakfast goes away with one or two bites.

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I was ready to slap someone at dinner tonight. And it wasn’t one of my children.
Mr. 365 was pushing everyone to the limit.
And if you know him personally, you know what I’m talking about.

When he is in one of his giddy, silly moods he has a tendency to go just one step too far.
Like when I tell him to stop (which I did multiple times at dinner), he always has to say one more thing – just to get that last word in.

Used to be when we were living in Rhode Island we would have monthly get-togethers with four other couples.
Things would get silly, and inevitably, Mr. 365 would end up saying something to someone leaving people, especially me, shaking my head.
The next morning, he’d be doing his famed “Apology Walk” around our neighborhood.

In need of an actual breakfast? Life Made Simple’s Pumpkin French Toast Sticks are perfect if you want a small meal. They’ll be delicious for brunch, too!
If you want something out of the box that tests your food adventure level, then No Spoon Necessary’s Banana Honey Bunches Cereal Breakfast Popsicles is just for you.

Tonight though he’d been making comments to the kids, trying to lighten things up and be a “cool dad”, but everyone (mostly our daughters) was becoming a little agitated at his antics, so I told him to knock it off.
For the most part, dinner was finished when one child excused herself having had enough of both dinner and dad, and retreated to her room.
Mr. 365 then proceeded to take a sip of water and pretending to be a water fountain, sprayed it onto himself and part of the table.

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“That’s it! I’m done!!”I picked up my plate (as I was still eating) and glass and moved into the other room to sit on the couch.
Good Grief!! He is the biggest child I’ve got.
And of course, the one left laughing at the table was our son. Two peas in a pod those two.

This recipe adapted from The New Doubleday Cookbook.

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Cranberry Almond Granola Bars

Cranberry Almond Granola Bars - great for breakfast, in lunch boxes or as an after-school snack!

Course Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword Granola Bars

Servings 18 people

Calories 245kcal

Author Lynne Feifer

Ingredients

• ½ cup sifted flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups quick-cooking oats
• ½ cup flaxseed meal
• ½ cup unsalted butter room temperature
• 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 1 cup finely chopped raw almonds
• 1 cup chopped dried cranberries
• ⅓ cup honey
• ⅓ cup liquid brown sugar directions below
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

Liquid Brown Sugar

• Combine 1/3 cup water and 1 cup brown sugar (1 part water to 3 parts brown sugar) in a small saucepan.
• Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved, about 7-10 minutes. Do not boil.

Granola Bars

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Prepare a 9 X 13-inch baking dish by generously spraying it with cooking spray.
• Sift flour with salt into a large bowl and add oatmeal and flaxseed meal.
• Using tips of fingers, rub butter into dry ingredients until well blended.
• Mix in all remaining ingredients. Combine thoroughly.
• Place mixture into prepared baking dish and using a rubber spatula, press firmly into pan.
• Bake for 30 minutes until pale brown.
• Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
• Cut into bars.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 245kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 39mg | Potassium: 175mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 158IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg

Know what? These Cranberry Almond Granola Bars were SO healthy and the whole family LOVED them!!!
These are definitely something I am making again and again and again!!
I will be trying the Agave Syrup next time.

If any of you use it before I do, please leave me a comment to let me know how it turned out.
I rate everything I bake on a scale of 1-4 with 4 being the best and these Cranberry Almond Granola Bars earned…Da da da DAH!!!!!
4 rolling pins!!
Who knew something so healthy could taste so darn good?! 
These are going in the kids’ lunches tomorrow!

There are days where I need more flavor in my coffee, or I need more than one cup. This peppermint white chocolate mocha takes care of one of those things.

You are going to love my strawberry spinach salad for your next party. Make a salad a little more interesting with these different ingredients.

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