Gooey bars that are bursting with flavors of nut butter, and chocolate. It’s super delicious, packed with nutrients, vegan, gluten free , and refined sugar free.
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I love homemade nut butter, funny enough, I didn’t have food processor for the last two year or more. Why , that’s a long story and I don’t want to bother you with it. However, my brother came for a vacation and got mom a small food processor, but a very good quality. So I just borrowed it, well maybe for a long time, you know I just took it and kept it 🙂
Mom doesn’t like mashed food or anything spreadable. Why, because she loves crunchy stuff, and she is not sure what goes inside anything mashed. She has a point I guess, you know she loves to make everything from scratch to make sure she know what goes in her tummy and ours too, so she really doesn’t believe much in a food processor.
Me? On the contrary, I love to puree and mash everything I can -mostly soups– savory or sweet! So it was time to make nut butter again. Before, I made so many varieties of nut butter but never document them online. That was years ago when my kid was a new born. I wasn’t really interested in capturing everything I make, especially there were no stories on Instagram back then or food stories maybe on snapchat.
I made these almond butter cookies, and they were so good, I almost had them all in one setting! I usually just spread nut butter on a toast, but I thought, I should make something delicious and embrace the greatness of nut butter!
Nut butter
If you follow me on Instagram you would have seen a story of my nut butter. I don’t have a descent photo of my nut butter, maybe next time, I promise! I’m calling it nut butter because I choose a mix of nuts, mainly peanuts and almonds, but had some pistachio and cashews too. Mixing them with coconut sugar and cinnamon . It tastes Aaaaaamazing !!!!!
Almond butter and peanut butter are the most common types , I did compare them in this post
Why you should eat nut butter?
Because it’s packed with nutrients and antioxidants. Here are some of the health benefits:
- Because its packed with monounsaturated fatty acids that are good for your heart.
- Peanuts It has B vitamins like niacin and vitamin B6 which they are good for heart health, energy, also for a strong healthy hair.
- Almond has good amount of vitamin E , which has antioxidants that kill free radical, also it keeps your immune system strong. Moreover, vitamin E fights aging from inside, and outside your body.
- Very fulfilling and easy to make and keep without worrying of it going bad or the tastes change.
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Sea salt nut butter chocolate oatmeal bars
Ingredients
- 150g old fashioned oatmeal
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 100g dark chocolate chips (dairy and refined sugar free)*
- 2 Tb coconut oil
- 2 Tb real male syrup
- 2 Tb oat flour
- 1 cup of nut butter, and to make it : (Peanut butter works really good too)
- 2 cups of mixed nuts, raw or just Peanut
- 3 Tb coconut sugar
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 Tb cinnamon
Instructions
- In a food processor put the nuts (peanut), cinnamon , and coconut sugar and mix until the nut butter is smooth, it will take around 20 minutes depending on the nut type, and your processor power.
- Preheat the oven to 375f /180C.
- In a large bowl, add all ingredients except he chocolate chips.
- Now fold gently the chocolate chips in the mix.
- On a baking sheet, line parchment paper and pour the mix. By a back of spoon or a spatula, make the mix even.
- Divide the dough into bars, so make the lines, it will be easier for you to cut it after.
- Put in the oven for 10 minutes maximum, or until its golden brown and still soft from the center, it will harden after you get it of the oven.
- Get it out of the oven and wait until it's cold (but not too cold too), then cut into bars or squares.
- Keep them in air tight container.
- If it's very hot where you live, you may want to keep them in the refrigerator.
Notes
* If you are not vegan, you can use vegan chips dark or milk chocolate chips.
