Chocolate Oatmeal Trail Bars
Enjoy your trail mix in a modern, delicious way! These bars deliver the crunch and protein of nuts, mixed in with some tasty chocolate!
Servings: 16 bars
Calories: 199kcal
Ingredients
Bottom Layer
- 1 cup almond flour
- 2 Tablespoons cacao powder
- 6 dates
- 2 Tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ cup tahini
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 cup old fashioned oats.
Second Layer
- 6 oz chopped dark chocolate or about 1 cup chocolate chips
- 3 teaspoons tahini
- ½ teaspoon flakey sea salt I use maldoon
Topping
- 3 Tablespoons raw pistachios
- 3 Tablespoons sliced raw almonds
- 3 Tablespoons cup raw pecans
- 2 Tablespoons raw pepitas
- 2 Tablespoons raw sunflower seeds
- 1 Tablespoon chia seeds
- 1 Tablespoon hemp seeds
- 1 Tablespoon unsweetened and unsulfured dried cherries chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and line a 8 x 8 square baking pan with parchment paper
- Make bottom layer: Put all ingredients of bottom layer into food processor and process until crumbly. Scrape into pan and use fingers to pat down evenly. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Place all ingredients (except dried cherries) onto baking sheet and add to oven for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, turn oven off. Remove nuts/seeds to cool. Sprinkle chocolate over bottom layer and put back in oven for 4 minutes. Use offset spatula to spread chocolate evenly. Glob tahini onto chocolate and use a toothpick to swirl it into chocolate. Sprinkle with sea salt and then the nut/dried cherry mix.
- Let cool in fridge for 30 minutes for chocolate layer to harden before cutting into squares. Store in fridge for two weeks or in the freezer for up to 3 months---if they last that long!
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 199kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 171mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 9g