Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Energy Bars

One of the many great recipes I've stumbled upon since discovering foodgawker.com. This was originally posted as a vegan recipe, but not being a vegan I just exchanged a few of the ingredients for what I had on hand. This is my adapted version.

1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup raisins (or any other dried fruit)
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbsp ground flax seed + 6 tbsp water

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flax seeds and water, then set aside. Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, then stir in raisins and chocolate chips. In a separate bowl, combine syrup, sugar and peanut butter. Mix until smooth. Combine nut butter mixture with flax seed/water mixture and stir. Add wet to dry ingredients and mix well. The mixture will be dry, but keep stirring. Press mixture into a sprayed 8×8 baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Allow pan to cool slightly before cutting into bars. (I also added 1/4 cup of chopped walnuts and some wheat germ, as I found the batter to be very moist; it still turned out great - soft & chewy. You could easily increase the flax seed as well).

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