Power Bars

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups almonds (raw)
• 1/2 cup golden flax seed meal
• 1/2 cup unsweetened dried shredded coconut
• 1/2 cup creamy roasted almond butter
• 1/2 teaspoon celtic sea salt
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 4 drops stevia (optional)
• 1 tablespoon agave nectar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup dark chocolate chips (optional)

Recipe

• 1 place almonds, flax meal, shredded coconut, almond butter and salt in a food processor. pulse briefly, about 10 seconds.
• 2 in a small sauce pan, melt coconut oil over very low heat.
• 3 remove coconut oil from stove, stir in stevia (i think it's sweet enough without this), agave and vanilla into oil.
• 4 add coconut oil mixture to food processor and pulse until ingredients form a coarse paste. (this is the point where i add the dark chocolate chips. i just stir them in and then skip steps 7 and 8).
• 5 press mixture into an 8x8 inch pyrex baking dish.
• 6 chill in refrigerator for 1 hour, until mixture hardens.
• 7 in a small saucepan, melt chocolate over very low heat, stirring continuously.
• 8 spread melted chocolate over bars; return to refrigerator for 30 minutes, until chocolate hardens.
• 9 remove from refrigerator, cut into bars and serve.