Apple and Peanut Cereal Bars
Apple and Peanut Cereal Bars are a wholesome homemade snack made with tart apples, raw peanuts, oat flakes, chia seeds and honey. The Thermomix TM7 cooks the apples into a sticky compote, grinds the peanuts and binds everything into firm bars. Ideal for lunchboxes, breakfast on the go or a post-workout treat without refined sugar.
About this recipe
Apple and Peanut Cereal Bars Thermomix TM7 are the homemade snack bars recipe your lunchbox has been waiting for. Instead of paying premium prices for packaged bars with unpronounceable ingredients, this recipe lets your all-in-one kitchen machine do the work: tart apples are cooked down with honey into a fragrant compote, raw peanuts are ground to a coarse crunch, and oat flakes, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, desiccated coconut and chocolate puffed rice are mixed through until every cluster is coated. The result is a chewy, crunchy bar with natural sweetness from fruit and honey, ideal as a quick breakfast, an after-school snack or a post-workout energy boost. Because the TM7 weighs each ingredient directly into the bowl, the ratios stay consistent every single batch. Make a tray on Sunday, portion it, and you have grab-and-go snacks for the whole week — far tastier and more economical than anything from the supermarket shelf.
Preparation tips
- Use firm, tart apples such as Bramley or Jonagold so the compote reduces to a thick, sticky base; sweeter varieties release more water and can leave the bars soggy after pressing.
- Press the oat, peanut and seed mixture firmly into a lined tin with the back of a spoon before chilling — compact bars slice cleanly, while loosely packed ones crumble when cut.
- Store the bars in an airtight container between sheets of baking paper in the fridge; for nut-free lunchboxes, replace the peanuts with toasted sunflower seeds and use sunflower seed butter instead.
Recipe variations
- Nut-free version: swap the raw peanuts for extra pumpkin seeds and toasted sunflower seeds, and use tahini in place of peanut butter for a school-friendly bar with the same chewy texture.
- Autumn variation: add a pinch of cinnamon and grated carrot to the apple compote, and replace the chocolate puffed rice with chopped dried cranberries for a festive seasonal twist.
Thermomix TM7 Benefits
- Weigh the oat flakes and honey straight into the bowl, because the TM7 built-in scale measures each cereal bar ingredient to the gram without extra bowls.
- Gentle heating cooks the tart apples with honey into a thick, sticky compote that binds the bars naturally without burning the sugars.
- Grinding turns the raw peanuts into a coarse, crunchy crumb in seconds, giving the cereal bars their signature nutty texture.
- Mixing coats the chia seeds, coconut and chocolate puffed rice evenly through the warm apple mixture so every bar sets firmly.
- Steaming the apples keeps their fruity freshness intact before mixing, preserving flavour that boiling on the hob would lose.
Ingredients
- apples, tart
- water
- raw unsalted peanuts
- olive oil
- honey
- chia seeds
- oat flakes
- chocolate puffed rice
- desiccated coconut
- pumpkin seeds