
Pear, Dark Chocolate & Hazelnut Oat Bars
Ingredients
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 100g oats
- 30g gluten-free flour
- 100g Natvia Sweetener Stevia Synbiotics 250g
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons natural / coconut yogurt
- 100ml oat or almond milk
- 2 pears, diced
- 70g no added sugar dark chocolate, cut into chunks
- 50g hazelnuts, chopped
For the drizzle
- 2 tablespoons natural / coconut yogurt
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon Natvia Sweetener Stevia Synbiotics 250g
- Chopped hazelnuts, to decorate
Method
- Mix together the mashed banana, oats, flour, Natvia Sweetener Stevia Synbiotics 250g, cinnamon, yogurt and milk until well combined.
- Stir in the pear and chocolate chunks and mix again. Spread out into a greased and lined 9x9in baking tin. Bake at 180C for 25-30 minutes until firmed up and golden.
- Leave for 10 minutes to cool then cut into 9 bars. Mix together the yogurt, cocoa powder, Natvia Sweetener Stevia Synbiotics 250g and a dash of water to loosen then drizzle over the bars. Scatter over chopped hazelnuts - then enjoy!
Recipe Data
PREP TIME: 10 MINUTES
BAKE TIME: 25-30 MINUTES
COOL TIME: 10 MINUTES
TOTAL TIME: 50 MINUTES
Related Posts
Black Sesame Latte
Black sesame lattes have quietly taken over cafe menus, and once you taste that deep, nutty, almost halva-like flavour, you understand why. The good news is the whole thing starts with one homemade staple: a sweetened black sesame paste made from just toasted sesame seeds and Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener (or Natvia Synbiotic Sweetener if you are in the UK), blitzed until glossy. Keep a jar in the fridge and a cafe-worthy latte is only ever two teaspoons away. The paste dissolves into hot water to form a rich sesame base, and steamed milk does the rest. It works just as well iced, which makes it one of those recipes that carries you through every season. There is no added sugar anywhere in it, and the flavour is genuinely something different from the usual chocolate and vanilla suspects. Make the paste on a Sunday and your weekday coffee order might start looking a little less tempting.
Learn moreChocolate Smoothie Bowl
A chocolate smoothie bowl that tastes like dessert but comes together before your coffee has finished brewing is a rare thing. This one blends frozen bananas with Greek yoghurt and Natvia Relax Hot Chocolate for a thick, creamy base with a proper chocolatey hit. The trick to a good smoothie bowl is keeping the blend thick enough to hold its toppings, and frozen bananas do the heavy lifting here, giving you that soft-serve texture with hardly any liquid. From there it becomes a blank canvas. Pile on blueberries, raspberries, linseed meal and chia seeds, or raid the fruit bowl for whatever looks good. It works as a quick breakfast, an afternoon pick-me-up or a lighter answer to late-night chocolate cravings.
Learn moreMatcha Granola with White Chocolate and Cranberries
Make matcha granola once and you will wonder why shop granola gets away with charging what it does. Toasty oats, pumpkin seeds and flaked almonds get a gentle green tea lift from matcha powder, with Natvia Gut Activation Sweetener bringing the sweetness instead of the usual syrup or sugar. Dried cranberries and no-added-sugar white chocolate turn it from virtuous to genuinely craveable, and the matcha and white chocolate pairing works exactly as well here as it does in your favourite latte. One bowl, one tray and about 15 minutes in the oven is all it takes, and the batch keeps in a jar for grab-and-go breakfasts all week. Pile it over yoghurt with a handful of fresh berries and you have a breakfast that looks like a cafe order but costs a fraction of what one would set you back.
Learn more




