Fruit, Honey And Coconut Energy Bars
Total Time: 15 mins
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 12
- 1 cup peanut butter (or experiment with almond butter, too)
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
- 2/3 cup dried cherries or 2/3 cup dried cranberries or 2/3 cup raisins (or a combination)
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 1/3 cup shredded coconut
- 3 cups puffed brown rice cereal
- butter, to grease pan
- chocolate or carob chips (optional)
- sliced almonds (other nuts are a little too oily for this) (optional)
Recipe
- 1 grease an 8x8 pan with a little butter.
- 2 in a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, honey and vanilla extract until well-combined.
- 3 add the sunflower seeds, dried fruit, sesame seeds and coconut and combine thoroughly with the peanut butter mixture.
- 4 gradually add the puffed brown rice cereal to this.
- 5 this is where a child comes in handy-- this step is gooey and messy and best mixed with your hands- and kids love stuff like that.
- 6 firmly press the mixture into the prepared 8x8 pan; you'll need to wet your hands slightly, otherwise the mixture just sticks to them.
- 7 cover and refrigerate for a couple of hours, then cut and serve.
- 8 they're very rich!
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