No, I'm not high on energy from this bar, I'm just incredibly excited to have come up with this dericious, good-for-you, carry-around food item!
Drawing ideas and techniques from a multitude of sources, I decided to make an energy bar as an excuse to use up the remainder of my peanut butter (yeah, yeah, not primal, I know). I just randomly threw crap together and it turned out amazing. It tastes like a cross between Chinese peanut brittle candy and a Ferrero Rocher, I KID YOU NOT. You've got to try it to believe it! You wouldn't even have known that there's protein powder in it unless I told you! Wow, I used a ton of exclamation marks in this paragraph! Yeah, I'm stoked! YEAH!!!
Ingredients:
1 cup Raw Almond Flour
1 cup Chocolate Flavored Whey Protein Isolate
1/2 cup Flaxseed Meal
1/2 cup Dark Chocolate (Shavings and Chunks, I used Trader Joe's Pound Plus Dark)
1/4 cup Peanut Butter (Unsalted)
1/4 cup Coconut Oil
1 Tbsp Walnuts (Crumbled by hand)
1 Tbsp Pecans (Crumbled by hand)
1 Tbsp Agave Nectar
1 Tsp Sea Salt
Step 1: Mix dry ingredients together well. Also preheat oven to 300F.
Step 2: Melt coconut oil if solid, mix with other wet ingredients and pour into dry mixture.
Step 3: Mix well, patting down the mixture with spatula or spoon as the mixture could get crumbly.
Step 4: Transfer mixture to 9x9 baking dish. I lined a piece of parchment paper in the dish, but the bars don't really stick because of the high fat content, so it's up to you!
Step 5: Throw baking dish in oven for about 15 minutes.
Step 6: Take baking dish out and let the bars cool to room temperature.
Step 7: Store in fridge up to 2 weeks.
Noms. Next time, I'll try to incorporate another ingredient or readjust the proportions to eliminate the crumbling, but aside from that, everything else is good in my books!
3 comments:
I'm not sure if you'd want to use it since it's not "primal", but perhaps adding a miniscule amount of organic butter derived from vegetable oil would eliminate much of the crumbling. :)
Butter from veggie oil? I've never heard of that... Like margarine?
Yeah, I use it in all of my cooking (as does my mom) - it's actually 79% veggie oil, due to the fact that they needed something to solidify it, but it's got no GMO, gluten-free, and also cholesterol-free...also known as "Earth Balance"! A delightful buttery spread :D It's just an idea though - but I'm tempted to make a batch from this recipe...very tempted... :)
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