Chocolate Granola Bars

This entry is from Jamie's blog, This Lunch Rox.  She makes healthy lunches fun for her kids.  It's a great blog to read.  Recently, she posted this recipe for Chocolate Granola Bars.   These turned out awesome and look exactly like they do in the picture below.  They only take about 5 minutes to whip up and no baking is required.

1/4 c. sugar free Hershey’s chocolate chips
1/4 c  natural peanut butter (make sure there's no sugar listed on the ingrediants.  You can also use almond butter, sunbutter or another nut butter)
1/4 c.  milk (or unsweetened almond milk)
1 c. oats
2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Tbsp Sweetener (I use xylitol, but you could use agave syrup, truvia, etc…)
2 Tbsp Other Dry Ingredients (flax seeds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, nuts, protein powder, etc…)
1 Tb. baking cocoa
Directions:
Melt the first three ingredients together in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring and checking
Then add the oats and the additional ingredients, stir to combine.  (You want this mixture to be somewhat dry.  If it’s not dry enough, add more oats one tablespoon at a time.)
Press mixture into bars or balls.   I have a small rectangular plastic container I line with wax paper to form the bars.  You could use an 8×8 pan for thin bars, or smaller pan if you want thicker bars.  Simply pour the “batter” into a pan lined with wax paper.  Spread batter until even and put in refrigerator or freezer for 10 minutes, or until bars have set up.   Slice into bars.  When we’re home I store the bars in the freezer and pull them out for lunches as needed.