Primal Energy Bar Recipes

BAKED PALEO ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Set oven rack to the middle position. Pre-heat to 300°F.
• Line a baking sheet with foil. Add almonds, cashews pepitas, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, and sesame seeds.
• Bake 15 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes. Roast ingredients until pale golden and fragrant.
• Transfer to a food processor, allow it to cool slightly. Pulse until coarsely chopped, about 5 pulses. Transfer to a medium-sized bowl.
• Process 3 pitted dates, warm water, maple syrup, egg white, and salt in the empty food processor until smooth. Scrape down the sides of bowl as needed.
• Chop the remaining 2 pitted dates into small pieces, about ⅛-inch cubes. Add processed date mixture and chopped dates to the bowl with the nut mixture. Stir until well combined.
• Make a foil sling for an 8-inch square baking pan by folding 2 long sheets of aluminum foil, so each is 8-inches wide. Lay sheets of foil in the pan perpendicular to each other, with extra edges hanging over the pan.
• Push foil into corners and up the sides of the pan, smoothing the foil flush to the pan. Lightly greasel (I use melted coconut oil).
• Spread energy bar mixture into prepared pan. Press firmly into an even layer using the bottom of a greased measuring cup.
• Bake bars at 300°F for 20 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking. Remove pan from the oven. Do not turn off oven. Space bars evenly on a parchment paper lined sheet pan.
• Allow bars to cool in pan for 15 minutes. Using the foil sling, remove bars from pan, transfer to cutting board and cut into 10 bars.
• Bake until bars are a deep golden brown about 10 to 15 minutes. Let bars cool on a wire rack to room temperature, about 1 hour.

PRIMAL ENERGY BAR RECIPE

Steps:

• On a cookie sheet, toast nuts and shredded coconut until golden brown. In order for them to cook evenly, you need to shake up the tray at least once during cooking...trust us!
• Once toasted, pour mixture into a food processor and pulse until nuts are chopped and the mixture becomes coarsely ground (sort of the consistency of bread crumbs).
• In a mixing bowl, melt coconut oil and almond butter (about 30 seconds). Remove from microwave and stir until smooth.
• Add vanilla extract, honey and sea salt. Mix thoroughly.
• Fold in nut mixture, almond meal and protein powder until mixed thoroughly.
• Add whole egg and mix thoroughly.
• Fold in blueberries/cranberries.
• Press mixture into an 8 by 8 loaf pan (a modification that we made to keep everything crisper and help the bars to hold together).
• Cook in a preheated oven at 325 degrees for 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven, sprinkle a ¼ cup of shredded coconut on top and place under broiler until top begins to brown.
• Let cool for 10-15 minutes. Cut into 12 pieces/bars.
• Enjoy or stack on wax paper/parchment and store in an airtight container.
• Note: You can also add dark chocolate chips instead of the cranberries/blueberries (available at Whole Foods or health food store). If you add the chips while the mixing bowl is warm (from the coconut oil/almond butter mixture), they will melt into the mixture and you will have yourself a chocolate primal bar. Alternatively, you can just let the mix cool, then add the chips, then refrigerate the pan to get chocolate chip primal bars. The bars stick together pretty well without being cooked.