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- 1 cup soaked walnuts
- (or pumpkin seeds for nut-free)
- 1/2 cup sunflower seed butter
- 1/4 cup hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup ground flax
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons coconut nectar
- 1 oz dark chocolate
It’s a “good morning” when your 8 year old daughter begs you to make the easiest, delicious, and most nutritious raw recipe ever!! I forgot that I had played around with creating a healthy bar for breakfast months ago.
Originally, I wasn’t so thrilled with the texture because they would not stay hard unless kept cold. What I thought was not perfected yet did not matter to her as she ate 3 of them this morning!
Good thing she remembered these raw bars , and that I wrote the recipe down, because my mind seems to be all over the place these days. “So what else is new”, I can hear my husband say. Lucky for me, my saving grace is I love to cook and he loves to eat! He ate his sunshine bar minus the chocolate. “Sunny” that man of mine is (I meant funny but obviously had Sunshine on my mind- so I left it)!
I will have to use that choice of words next time I am all in a tizzy with him. “SUNNY”, my love you ate all the walnuts for my recipe, AGAIN, now I have to go back to the store!! I actually have to put notes on foods I am planning to use for recipes because somehow they find their way into his stomach!
I piped coconut cream on top for an extra special treat!
- 1 cup soaked walnuts
- (or 1 cup pumpkin seeds for nut-free)
- ½ cup sunflower seed butter, raw or roasted
- ¼ cup hemp seeds
- ¼ cup ground flax
- 2 tablespoons chia seeds
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons coconut nectar
- 1 oz dark chocolate
- Finely ground walnuts (or pumpkin seeds) in your Vitamix, (or food processor).
- Add the rest of the ingredients, except chocolate, blend till mixed
- With wet or oiled hands flatten and square off corners of mixture onto a cookie sheet with wax paper.
- Melt the chocolate in a pan and drizzle over the flattened mixture.
- Freeze for 10 minutes for instant eating or leave in refrigerator for at least an hour.
Ingredients
1 cup soaked walnuts (learn more to soak nuts)
(or 1 cup pumpkin seeds for nut-free)
1/2 cup sunflower seed butter, raw or roasted (learn more)
1/4 cup hemp seeds (learn more)
1/4 cup ground flax (learn more)
2 tablespoons chia seeds (learn more)
1 tablespoon coconut oil (learn more)
2 tablespoons coconut nectar (learn more)
1 oz dark chocolate
I hope you enjoy this “unperfected” but perfect in every other way (that really matters) recipe!
With a Spoonful of Sunshine,
Dawn
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6 Comments on "Sunshine Bars (paleo, raw, vegan, nut and gluten free)"
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I couldn’t melt my chocolate, so I added the chocolate chips and then I added fresh raspberries to mine and it was a non-stop flight to heaven!
thanks Dawn
xo
Love it! You made it your own! Thanks for all your support Lori!
Hey Dawn- approximately how many bars does this recipe yield? And what size bars do you cut?
Thanks!
Judi
Hi Judy, Can you tell I am the creative type…depends on how thick you make them. I have cut them into 9 or 12 squares with a pizza cutter. I hope that helps. My new format has an actual recipe you can print and has space for serving size. Let me know what you think!
Love your recipes! Was wondering if there something you would recommend to replace the hemp seeds if I didn’t have any on hand? Thank you!
Hi Jennifer, if you don’t have hempseeds and nuts are an issue you certainly could use sunflower seeds, chia seeds, ground flax, or pumpkin seeds. Just grind them up a little bit so it brings them into smaller pieces. If nuts are not an issueyou certainly could use almonds or pecans. I hope you enjoy them!