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Best Ever Oh Henry Bars Recipe

Published: Jul 9, 2020 Last Updated: Aug 13, 2020 by Marye 825 words. | About 5 minutes to read this article.

Oh Henry bars are kind of like a granola bar covered with melted Reese's peanut butter cups. They are full of hearty oatmeal goodness with a rich topping of chocolate and peanut butter ganache. Easy recipe - kids can make with supervision.
Total time 1 hour 30 minutes
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These simple bar cookies are pure peanut butter and chocolate magic! Next time try these Vanilla Brownies!

Closeup of Oh Henry Bar cookies showing texture of bar and glaze.
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  • ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
  • 📋 Ingredients
  • 🔪 Instructions
  • 💭 Tips
  • 🎥 Video
  • 🍽 Equipment
  • 📖 Recipe
  • 💬 Comments

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

It's a vintage recipe that's as simple and uncomplicated as childhood. Sweet, salty, crunchy, creamy goodness that's ready in minutes. Oh Henry bars travel well for bake sales, potlucks, and picnics, too!

📋 Ingredients

This recipe is made without corn syrup. I've seen many that call for it but this is the one I grew up with. I hope you love it as much as I do.

Labeled ingredients for Oh Henry Bars.

🔪 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

Step by step images for making the bars.
  1. Preheat the oven. Grease pan. Mix oats, sugar and brown sugar in large bowl.
  2. Mix well.
  3. Pour in melted butter.
  4. Stir until the entire mixture is moistened with the butter.
  5. Press into pan firmly.
  6. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes. Cool completely.
  7. Melt chocolate and peanut butter together.
  8. Stir until completely smooth.
  9. Spread over cooled cookie base. Chill.

💭 Tips

Expert Tip: If there are allergies to peanuts use almond butter or sunflower seed butter in place of the peanut butter.

  • Make sure you break up any lumps in the brown sugar.
  • Old fashioned or quick oats are fine - just don't use instant oatmeal. It won't work!!
  • Brown sugar- either golden or dark is fine. It's up to your tastes.
  • Peanut butter - creamy or chunky - just remember if you use chunky it will give the chocolate topping a lot of texture.
  • Oh Henry bars can be made ahead, covered, and stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Or freeze them for up to a month. Thaw before serving.
  • Double check your products for gluten but these are, as far as I know, gluten free.
  • Try butterscotch or white chocolate chips in place of the chocolate.

🎥 Video

Just click on the image below if you'd like to see the full length video on YouTube. It opens in a new tab so you won't lose your place here.

Oh Henry Bars - see the full video in YouTube (opens in a new tab)

🍽 Equipment

When you show up at the next church potluck with these homemade bars stacked inside this retro carrier you're going to feel just like Mrs. Cleaver... or Aunt Bee. Hey, party like it's 1965, right?

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One of the Oh Henry bars with a bite taken out of it showing layers of cookie and chocolate.

I have my mother's old Better Homes and Garden's cookbook, circa 1939... or something like that. It's crazy old.

It's got a lot of vintage recipes, the stuff I grew up on, but there is something I like better. Stuffed in the pages is a treasure trove of papers that Mom cut, collected, and procured for seven decades.

There are recipes that were my grandmother's, aunts', and ancestors unknown. There are recipes from brands that no longer exist and brands that are still around.

Memories. Memories with all of them.

This recipe for Oh Henry Bars with oatmeal is in there, faded, stained, and kind of frazzled looking but its appearance attests to the popularity of the recipe.

Vintage recipes have a way of bringing back our memories with each nibble. I love making the dishes that I loved as a child and sharing them, along with the memories that go with them, with my kids and grandkids.

Things that no one makes anymore like Butterscotch Buckaroons and Peanut Butter Molasses cookies are flavors that are going to be forgotten and gone forever soon - and that would be a shame, don't you think?

📖 Recipe

Stack of oatmeal bar cookies with chocolate frosting.
4.57 from 104 votes

Oh Henry Bars

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Oh Henry bars are kind of like a granola bar covered with melted Reese's peanut butter cups. They are full of hearty oatmeal goodness with a rich topping of chocolate and peanut butter ganache. Easy recipe - kids can make with supervision.
Course Bar cookies
Cuisine Amercian Heritage,American - Vintage
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Chill: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings:24
Calories:268
Author:Marye Audet-White
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Equipment Needed

  • 13x9-inch pan
  • rubber spatula

Ingredients

  • 4 cups oats, Old fashioned or quick
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 6 ounces chocolate chips
  • 1 cup peanut butter
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • Grease 13" x 9 ” pan.
  • Mix oats, sugar and brown sugar in large bowl.
  • Pour melted butter over and mix well.
  • Press into pan firmly and bake for 20 - 25 minutes.
  • Cool.
  • Melt chocolate and peanut butter together stirring to blend.
  • Spread over cooled cookie base.
  • Chill 1 hour…IF you can wait that long.
  • Cut into 2 dozen bars.

Notes

Expert Tip: If there are allergies to peanuts use almond butter or sunflower seed butter in place of the peanut butter.
  • Make sure you break up any lumps in the brown sugar.
  • Old fashioned or quick oats are fine - just don't use instant oatmeal. It won't work!!
  • Brown sugar- either golden or dark is fine. It's up to your tastes.
  • Peanut butter - creamy or chunky - just remember if you use chunky it will give the chocolate topping a lot of texture.
  • Oh Henry bars can be made ahead, covered, and stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Or freeze them for up to a month. Thaw before serving.
  • Double check your products for gluten but these are, as far as I know, gluten free.
  • Try butterscotch or white chocolate chips in place of the chocolate.

Nutrition Facts

Calories: 268kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 125mg | Potassium: 133mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 250IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 0.9mg

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    First Published: April 20, 2015. Last updated July 9, 2020 for better images, to add video, and better reader experience overall.

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    Comments

    1. Girlcarver

      November 23, 2021 at 1:37 pm

      1 star
      Base didn't hold together, so dumped it all in a bowl and added the chocolate/peanut butter and some coconut as it still wouldn't hold together, then put the concoction into paper cups and in the fridge to set. Won't try this ever again!

      Reply
    2. Cathy Bein

      March 03, 2021 at 12:04 pm

      Sprayed pan well, then used parchment paper, just in case. Parchment had a couple holes in it, in those places, base was totally stuck to pan and took hours of soaking to loosen it, after I had lifted the rest out with the parchment paper. These are very good, but the base was dry and crumbly. Took care to not overbake it but it was still dry and crumbly. I have a small jar of the base that crumbled off to use for something else. Kind of peanut butter wouldn't matter because it's not in the base, but I did use regular, not natural.

      Reply
    3. Nathalie

      February 17, 2021 at 1:55 pm

      5 stars
      Very good. I didn’t not have any issues. I had crunchy peanut butter and it was perfect.... taste even more peanuty.... 😜. I will try to freeze them now 🤞🏻. Thank you for the recipe simple, sort of healthy and delicious.👍🏼👍🏼

      Reply
    4. Michelle

      January 22, 2021 at 7:05 pm

      5 stars
      Made these tonight with few changes,(mistakes:) ha!
      Only had 3 cups Oats so I added 1 cup flour. Mistakes were I didn’t melt the butter and I put peanut butter in the crust. I used parchment paper in quarter sheet pan and baked for 28 minutes. I did do the topping as directed and then chilled for hour.
      Family went crazy for them!!! Definitely will
      Be making these again.
      Thank you!

      Reply
    5. Jennifer

      January 15, 2021 at 9:41 pm

      5 stars
      I made these today. Super easy to make and absolutely wonderful! I will definitely make these again. Thank you for the recipe!

      Reply
    6. Jon

      November 18, 2020 at 10:00 pm

      5 stars
      These are amazing. I took the base out of the oven after 20 minutes. Definitely don’t over-bake, that may have been the problem others had. I also used a glass pan which tends to keep things from browning. These are better than candy bars and my family love them! Thanks for the recipe!

      Reply
    7. Shanleigh

      October 25, 2020 at 6:06 pm

      These are awful. The bottom completely stuck to the pan and is as hard as a brick. The top is okay. I wouldn’t waste my time on these. I am an excellent cook and am very disappointed. I was expecting the bottom to be chewy goodness. Sorry.

      Reply
      • Marye

        October 26, 2020 at 8:47 am

        I'm sorry you had trouble with it. I've not had that experience.

    8. Evelyn

      February 20, 2020 at 1:21 pm

      Okay. I made these and followed the recipe to a "T". Yes, sprayed the pan with Pam. The bars are TOTALLY stuck to the bottom of the pan and Simply cannot be removed. What in the world?

      Reply
      • Marye

        February 20, 2020 at 5:30 pm

        I've never had that happen... You didn't happen to use homemade peanut butter did you? Sometimes that causes things to stick because there's less fat.

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