Almond Protein Bars

Almond Protein Bars are a real staple on both the “Advanced” and the “Core” Maximized Living Nutrition Plan that you can eat with or without the chocolate topping. They make a wonderful lunchbox treat, but you do need to ensure that they stay cold. Take one of those tiny blue ice blocks in your lunch bag.

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Almond Protein Bars Recipe

Makes 20 to 24 squares

Ingredients

• 2 cups raw almonds
• ½ cup flax seed meal
• ½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
• 2 scoops of organic whey protein, flavor of your choice
• ½ cup raw almond butter
• raw nuts and raw nut butters such as macademia (optional)
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ cup coconut oil
• 1/8 teaspoon of stevia, (equivalent to approximately 1/2 cup of sugar). Taste and adjust to your liking.
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract (No sugar – check the label)

Topping (optional)

• 8 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted and sweetened to taste with stevia and cinnamon

Directions

1. Place almonds, flax meal, shredded coconut, Organic Whey Protein, almond butter and salt in a food processor. Add in raw nuts and raw nut butters as desired.
2. Pulse briefly, about 10 seconds.
3. In a small sauce pan, melt coconut oil over very low heat.
4. Remove coconut oil from stove; stir stevia and vanilla into oil.
5. Add coconut oil mixture to food processor and pulse until ingredients form a coarse paste.
6. Press mixture into an 8 x 8 glass baking dish. (Parchment paper liner helps you remove the bars from the dish.)
7. Chill in refrigerator for 1 hour, until mixture hardens.
8. In a double boiler, melt chocolate. Stirring in stevia and cinnamon.
9. Spread melted chocolate over bars; return to refrigerator for 30 minutes, until chocolate hardens.
10. Remove from refrigerator, cut into bars, and serve.

Original recipe available on GoodFood.