Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars will blow you away! They are nutty, fruity, and slightly sweet. The good-for-you ingredients make them the perfect grab-and-go snack. 

Happy New Year!!

Wow… here we are in 2016! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and may this New Year be filled with many blessings to you and your loved ones. We had a quiet New Year‘s Eve with our family. We ate delicious food and waited for the 12 chimes, or rather the ball drop, with our champagne glasses filled with champagne of course, and 12 grapes.  In the Spanish culture when the clock strikes midnight you eat twelve grapes, if they’re not eaten on time, the person who fails to follow tradition will have bad luck during the next 12 months. Of course, I never finish them on time but it’s fun anyway.

With the arrival of the New Year, most of us make New Year’s resolutions but I prefer short measurable goals so I don’t set myself up for failure! So I decided to start with creating an eating schedule for me since my major problem is that when I working I can go for hours and hours without eating.

Welp… for those long hours work days these Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars will be perfect!!

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars are full of goodness!!! They’re packed with nuts, seeds, and dried fruit, for a grab-and-go snack you can enjoy anytime.

I also added Jif Chocolate Peanut Powder, which has the same amount of nourishing protein as traditional peanut butter, but with 85% less fat. It’s the perfect way to add delicious peanut taste to smoothies, baking, breakfast and more – with fewer calories and sugar.

Jif Chocolate Peanut Powder contains semisweet chocolate and a dash of sugar, making it perfect for People with a serious sweet tooth, like me, looking for something a bit sweeter.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars

Oriana Romero

These Chocolate Peanut Butter Energy Bars will blow you away! They are nutty, fruity, and slightly sweet. The good-for-you ingredients make them the perfect grab-and-go snack. 

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Servings 15 bars

Ingredients

 

• ▢ 1/2 cup whole almonds
• ▢ 1/2 cup blanched almonds, chopped
• ▢ 1/2 cup whole pistachios
• ▢ 1/2 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
• ▢ 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
• ▢ 1/2 cup cashews, coarsely chopped
• ▢ 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
• ▢ 3/4 cup pepitas seeds
• ▢ 2 tablespoons chia seeds
• ▢ 1/4 cup Chocolate Peanut Powder
• ▢ 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
• ▢ 1 cup dried cranberry, raisins, or cherries
• ▢ 5 tablespoons brown rice syrup
• ▢ 2 tablespoons coconut oil
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla

Important

Don’t forget to check out the step-by-step photos above in the post—they’ll guide you through the process and make everything super clear!

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 250º F. Lightly grease with coconut oil a 9x13-inch pan baking pan. Line the pan with parchment paper with ends extending over edges of the pan. Spray the paper with more coconut oil. Set aside.
• Stir together, in a large bowl, all the nuts, seeds, JIF Chocolate Peanut Powder, and coconut flakes. Mix to combine and set aside.
• Place the dried cranberries, brown rice syrup, coconut oil, salt, and vanilla in a small food processor and process for 1 minute, or until mixture is fairly smooth.
• Add the cranberry mixture to the nut mixture and mix until combined.
• Transfer mixture to prepared pan. Press the mixture evenly and very firmly into the pan. The mixture should be as flattened and firmly packed as possible. Since the mixture is very sticky I oiled the back of a measuring cup to flatten and press it.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until bars are no longer sticky and lightly golden. Cool in pan, then remove (use the overhanging parchment as handles to lift it straight out of the pan) to a cutting board and cut into desired size bars. Wrap each bar in plastic wrap or wax paper.

Oriana's Notes

Store: store at room temperature up to 5 days in an airtight container or in the fridge for 2 weeks.

 

Freeze: You also can freeze the bars wrapped in parchment or wax paper and store in a plastic freezer bag.

 

The bars can be eaten straight from the fridge or freezer and will be firm.

 

Looking for more snack ideas?

• Pumpkin Quinoa Granola
• No Bake Protein Bars {kid-friendly}
• Easy Frozen Banana Pops
• Dulce de Leche Chocolate Bark
• Coconut Apricot Granola

 

 

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Nutrition

Calories: 302kcalCarbohydrates: 21gProtein: 10gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 94mgPotassium: 425mgFiber: 7gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 15IUVitamin C: 0.3mgCalcium: 84mgIron: 2.3mg

Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

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Course Snack

Cuisine American

Calories 302

Keyword bars healthy homemade snack

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