I have had lots of people asking me for alternatives to crappy grain ridden granola bars and they want them small and easy to take along, well this is what I came up with and boy are they addicting. There are an endless amount of possibilities with these so feel free to play around and come up with your own creations. Don’t forget to come by and tell me what you come up with or how much you love them. Enjoy
Caveman Crunch Bars
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup raw almonds
- 3/4 cup raw macadamia nuts
- 1/4 cup raw pepitas
- 1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 1/2 cup cranberries
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/4 cup raw organic honey
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit
- Place your almonds and macadamia nuts in your food processor and continue to pulse until you have tiny chunks, you don’t want the consistency of flour, keep it rough.
- Transfer the mixture to your mixing bowl and add all of the remaining ingredients
- Mix well by hand to ensure an even distribution of ingredients
- Grease a 9×9 Square baking dish with coconut oil and then transfer your nut mixture to the dish
- Bake in your preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until the center of your bars pass the toothpick test
- Once done, remove from the oven and let cool on the counter in the pan
- Once you can handle the pan without oven mitts, place the bars in the refrigerator and let cool completely
- Remove from the fridge and then slice into bars of the size of your choice
- Individually wrap them in plastic wrap and leave at room temperature or place back in the refrigerator and take them everywhere as snacks.
- Enjoy
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I made these last night… They are great… plan on making them again…. Do you think if I made some and put them in an air tight container they would be safe to send to Afghanistan? My son would love them.
Shelly I am unsure, but I would say if you vacuum sealed them it might make it
Hi George! You have really out done yourself with these bars! They are amazing!! So so yummy!! In the ones I made I did one and a half of your recipe and used raisins instead of cranberries (I didn’t realize my cranberries had gone bad) and I also used 1/4 a cup of Enjoy Life chocolate chips. They turned out amazingly and made my whole house smell fabulous!! I could barely wait for them to cool to have a taste!! Thank you so so much!! Keep up the awesome work!!
Awesome Stefani, so glad you loved them :)
How do you make them so they look all nice and crisp? They don’t stay together all too well!
It was an art form, I think if I remember i partially chilled them to help them stay together
what’s are nutrition facts on these bad boys?
Kat,
I do not calculate nutrition on anything. If you want to you can use a site like fitday.com or myfitnesspal.com :)
Fresh or dried cranberries.?
Dried
Question – dried cranberries or fresh ones?
Dried
Mine stuck to the pan on the edges, I think nest time I will use parchment paper on the bottom of the pan. But other than that they are awesome, I cut mine into 15 pieces. I might do currants and apricots next time instead of cranberries.
Yummy
These are stinkin’ amazing! :-) I crumbled them up in a cereal bowl and added almond milk and blueberries. This recipe is going straight into the “keeper” file! Hurray!
Woohoo, glad you loved it