The Best Oat Crunchies
Bake The Best Oat Crunchies with coconut and honey for delicious and healthy family snacks that everyone will enjoy.
The Best Oat Crunchies
If you’re looking for the best oat crunchies recipe, these buttery, golden bars are a delicious family favorite. Made with rolled oats, coconut, honey, and brown sugar, this easy Jungle Oats crunchie recipe has a crisp, crunchy texture with a slightly chewy center that’s hard to resist.
Known as Jungle Oats crunchies in South Africa, these homemade oat bars are simple to prepare using everyday pantry ingredients. They’re perfect for lunch boxes, afternoon tea, road trips, or an anytime snack that both kids and adults will enjoy.
Bake a large batch, slice into squares, and store them in an airtight container for an easy grab-and-go treat throughout the week. Whether you call them oat crunchies, crunchie bars, or simply crunchies, this classic recipe is wholesome, satisfying, and one you’ll make again and again. Find more ideas Cookies Biscuits and snack bars
Ingredients for The Best Oat Crunchies
- Rolled oats: Known as old fashioned oats, derived from whole grain food from oat groats, that are dehusked then steamed and rolled. The rolled oats are then lightly toasted to stabilize them.
- Desiccated coconut: Is derived from coconut meat, grated then dried and used for baking. It has a fresh coconut flavor and is crispy, The color is white or cream.
- Honey: Is a healthy and organic natural liquid made by bees. It is golden in color and can vary in tastes, or color. Depending on what flowers herbs or blossoms were available for the bees to forage on.
- Flour: All purpose flour is a versatile flour that is used for all baked goods. Sauces and for thickeners for gravies. Made from a blend of hard and soft wheat. You could also use Almond flour, oat flour, Rye flour, chickpea flour, coconut flours.
- Sugar: Use brown or white sugars for baking. If you want a healthier version then use coconut sugars, or use substitutes such as aspartame, stevia.
- Butter: Butter is a dairy product made from dairy cream, that has been churned. It has fats and liquids. Which help the moisture content of your baked desserts and cakes or casserole dishes for meals. You get the salted or unsalted butter. Depends on the recipe used which one you should use.
- Salt: Salt is a mineral which is essential for life. Used in baking and cooking of meals. Salt flavors food and is a binder and a great food preservative. the healthiest salts is Sea salt, Himalayan salt, and Kosher salt.
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How To make The Best Oat Crunchies
- Preparing this mixture to bake is simple and easy. All you do is melt the butter then add this and the honey to all the dry ingredients and mix together. Press into a baking tray and bake. Really very easy.
- Once they are baked cut while warm into squares. (NB cut while warm, but leave to cool)
- Then when they are cool and hardened break them apart store in a sealed container.
- These crunchies bring back so many memories from childhood. We used to travel to the coast for holidays and of course our father would not stop to eat or drink.
- Therefore my mother used to make large quantities of these crunchie squares for the trip to nibble on.
- Also a great snack for holidays for the kids and healthy and very filling. So popular with many people.
- They are a versatile snack and you can add chocolate chips or dip them in chocolate.
- But plain is still the best.
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The Best Oat Crunchies
Bake The Best Oat Crunchies with coconut and honey for delicious and healthy family snacks that everyone will enjoy.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 45 min
- Category: snacks or biscuits
- Method: oven baked
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 2 cups of rolled oats (jungle oats)
- 1 cup of flour
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 cup of desiccated coconut
- 1/2 cup of butter
- 1/2 teaspoon of bicarb of soda
- 2 tablespoons of Honey. (or illovo syrup optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon of salt
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 180 Deg. C (350 Deg. F)
- Grease baking tray or roasting pan or line with wax proof paper or liner.
- Melt the butter in a bowl.
- In a larger bowl mix the dry ingredient such as oats, flour, sugar, coconut, bicarb soda.
- Add the melted butter and the honey and mix all the ingredients together until well mixed.
- Press and level oat this oat mixture into a baking pan with some sides. (or roasting pan)
- Place in the preheated oven and bake until brown on top. For about 30 minutes
- When cooked take out and place on a cooler rack and cut the oat crunchies in squares while it is warm. Leaving the crunchies to cool before taking out of the pan. As they will set harder then this will be difficult.
- When cool place in containers and keep sealed for at least 3 days. They do last longer if wrapped with foil wrap. Great snacks to take on journeys or made in quantity.
Notes
- These oat crunchies may be made into biscuits as well.
- Use some illovo syrup as a alternative to honey. maple syrup is to runny, its not the same consistency.
FAQ’s for Oat Crunchies
Jungle Oats Crunchies are the South African version of oat crunchies. The name comes from the popular Jungle Oats brand, but the recipe can be made with any rolled oats.
Yes. This recipe is made without coconut, giving you a buttery oat crunchie that still has plenty of crunch and flavor.
Traditional rolled oats (old-fashioned oats) work best because they provide the classic chewy texture and crisp edges.
Allow the crunchies to cool completely before slicing. Cutting them while warm can cause them to crumble.
Yes. Store them in an airtight container or freezer-safe bag for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temperature before serving.
No. While Jungle Oats is the traditional South African brand choice, any regular rolled oats will produce excellent oat crunchies.
