Let’s be honest, how many times do you make yourself a cup of tea or coffee and instinctively reach for the biscuit tin? I know I do… at least once a day! Well, if you want to banish that guilty feeling – or just give yourself a healthier option – these date and nut energy bars are for you.
There are just 3, simple ingredients and there’s no cooking or baking involved – just a couple of minutes (literally!) in a food processor and a few hours in the fridge.
Healthy, raw-food snacks don’t have to be boring, bland or cranky. These energy bars are going to replace those high sugar, high fat, high calorie cookies & biscuits… well, some of them anyway, I love a crumbly shortbread with a nice cup of Yorkshire tea!
Date and nut energy bars
Ingredients
- 125 g/4½oz almonds skin on or off
- 185 g/6½oz dried dates
- 100 g/3½oz dark chocolate
Instructions
- Put the almonds into a food processor and blitz until the almonds are chopped fine
- Add the dried dates to the ground almonds and blitz again until smooth
- Add the chocolate, broken into squares and blitz for a third time until finely ground
- Empty the mixture into an 18cm/7inch-square loose-based cake tin
- Press down firmly & evenly using a cranked palette knife or the back of a dessert spoon, paying attention to the corners
- Cover the tin in clingfilm/Saran wrap and put it into the fridge for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- Remove from the fridge, lift the square out of the tin onto a chopping board and slice into squares or fingers
