Trail Mix Blondies

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These sweet and salty Trail Mix Blondies taste like trail mix but in bar form. They're packed with healthy ingredients!

Trail Mix Blondies on a plate and in baking dish in the background.

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These Trail Mix Blondies have all the flavors of a trail mix with dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, and chocolate chips.

They also have chickpeas, peanut butter, and oat flour; making them a healthy snack for any time of the day!

Chickpeas make a great addition to bars because they add a creamy texture as well as help to hold the bars together.

Another trail mix recipe to try is my Trail Mix Oatmeal Cookies.

Another healthy snack is my Sesame Seed Bars. They are made with only two ingredients! (Salt doesn't count.)

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❤️ Why You'll Love Them
🧾 Ingredients
📖 Variations / Additions
🔪 Instructions
💭 Tips
👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQs
Other Vegan Desserts
📋 Recipe
💬 Comments

❤️ Why You'll Love Them

They are sweet and salty, like trail mix.
They are rich and comforting but with healthy ingredients.
They are simple and easy to make.

🧾 Ingredients

Chickpeas (garbanzo beans): Make the blondies fudgy and moist and add protein.
Oat flour: I used oat flour, but you could also use gluten-free 1:1 baking flour or almond flour. You can make oat flour by grinding rolled oats in a food processor or Nutribullet with the milling blade.
Peanut butter: Adds more protein and acts as a binder.
Maple syrup: Adds sweetness.
Baking powder: Give them a little lift and a lighter texture.
Vanilla extract: Enhances flavors.
Salt: Enhances sweetness. I like to use sea salt.
Trail mix: I used dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, roasted and salted peanuts, and chocolate chips. You could use your favorite dried fruit, nuts, and seeds.

To see the full list of ingredients with measurements and instructions, see the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

📖 Variations / Additions

Almond butter, cashew butter, another nut butter, or sunflower seed butter
Add ½ cup chocolate chips and omit the nuts, seeds, and dried cranberries to make Chickpea Blondies
Almond flour or another flour

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🔪 Instructions

Ingredients in a food processor before and after mixing.

Step 1: Add chickpeas, oat flour, peanut butter, maple syrup, baking powder, vanilla extract, and salt into a food processor. If you don't have oat flour, you can make it by grinding rolled oats in a food processor or Nutribullet with the milling blade.

Step 2: Blend until smooth and creamy.

Ingredients in a food processor being folded in.

Step 3: Add dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, and chocolate chips, reserving ¼ cup for the top of the bars.

Step 4: Fold into the chickpea dough.

Trail Mix Blondies in a baking dish before and after being baked.

Step 5: Oil a baking dish or line it with parchment paper. Spread the mixture into the baking dish.

Step 6: Bake until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

💭 Tips

If you have a peanut allergy you could use another nut butter or seed butter.
I used raw pumpkin seeds. If you use roasted and salted, you may want less salt.
As always, taste as you go. You may want more salt than I've included or fewer chocolate chips. Just keep in mind wet-to-dry ingredient ratios. If you want more maple syrup, for example, you will be adding more moisture.
Store in an airtight container.
For Vegan Chickpea Cookie Dough, add ½ cup chocolate chips, and ½ cup maple syrup, and omit the nuts, seeds, dried cranberries, and baking powder.

Trail Mix Blondies stacked on a plate close up.

👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQs

What can you put in a trail mix?

For these vegan trail mix blondies, I included dried cranberries, roasted and salted peanuts, pumpkin seeds, and chocolate chips, but you could include any of your favorite dried fruit, nuts, and seeds.