No-Bake Homemade Clif Bars (Without Peanuts)
Tender and light green, these homemade no-bake Clif bars are sweet & salty with balanced nuttiness.
Calories: 478.53kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Cup oats
- 2 Tablespoon flaxseeds
- 7 Tablespoons pistachio butter
- 4 Tablespoons pumpkin seeds
- 4 Tablespoons honey
- 2 Tablespoons melted cocoa butter
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon ground vanilla optional
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1-2 Tablespoons chia seeds or pumpkin seed flour for coating if desired
- 1 teaspoon moringa optional, for added color & antihistamine power
Instructions
- Put the oats and flax seeds into your food processor and lightly blend for 10-15 seconds on low, to grind the oats and flax into smaller, more digestible pieces.
- Add the pistachio butter, pumpkin seeds, honey, melted cocoa butter, ginger, cardamom, and salt (not the water), and then blend in 5-second pulses for half a minute.
- If the mixture isn't yet forming a dough-like texture, add a ½ tablespoon of water and blend well for another 10 seconds. Repeat that process until a dough forms that's sticky enough to form into bars but not so thin that they lose their shape.
- Refrigerate the dough for 10-15 minutes, then take it out and form it into bars, coating each one in a bit of chia seeds or pumpkin seed powder to keep them from sticking (if desired), and then refrigerate for 10 more minutes on the parchment and eat or enjoy, as desired.
Notes
COATINGS. You can coat these bars in any sort of small seed, or nut or seed powder. My recommendations would be pumpkin seed powder or chia seeds.
ENERGY BALLS. If you're bored of bars, you can also form this recipe into 8 energy bites instead of 4 homemade Clif bars.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 478.53kcal | Carbohydrates: 52.88g | Protein: 13.89g | Fat: 24.59g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 75.85mg | Fiber: 10g | Sugar: 19.13g