Cereal bars with chocolate, dried fruit, and nuts
Ingredients
- For 20 bars:
- 150g porridge oats
- 140g roughly chopped almonds
- 90g roughly chopped walnuts
- 80g sunflower seeds
- 90g sesame
- 90g raisins or goji berries
- 180g confectioner's chocolate
- 75g honey
- 75g white sugar
- 150g brown sugar
- 150g butter
- 110g almond puree (see below)
- a pinch of salt
- 5 drops vanilla extract
- a little bit of cinammon
- For the almond puree:
- 160g almonds, powedered, or almond meal
- 10g sunflower oil
- 5g honey
- 2 tbsp water
- a pinch of salt
Directions
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In a large bowl, mix the oats, almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, sesame, raisnins and the chocoloate (drops or small pieces)
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In a small pan or pot add the honey, sugar, brown sugar, butter, almond puree, salt, vanilla extract and cinnamon, and simmer at low heat mixing with a wooden spoon, until combined. Remove from the heat and add them to the bowl, mixing until combined.
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Place the mixture onto a 20x20 cm ovenproof nonstick dish, and press it until the thickness is 1-2 cm throughout. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 for about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven leave the bars to cool for 5 minutes.
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Cut into bars. You can dip the bottom in melted chocolate of your choice and, once cooled, serve either by itself or with a drink.
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For the almond puree: Powder the almonds (if they are not powdered already) for 2-3 minutes in a blender. Slowly add the oil and continue blending. Add the honey, water, and salt, and continue blending.
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