Almond Butter Protein Bars

Six whole-food ingredients make these high-protein bars! The base of these bars is made from almond flour, almond butter, and hemp hearts - each bar contains 12 grams of protein.

Prep Time15

Fridge Time30

Total Time45

Servings: Bars

Author: Danika Vanderpyl

Ingredients

1 cup almond flour or almond meal
1 cup hemp hearts
1 cup almond butter crunchy almond butter works too
¼ cup maple syrup
1 cup dark chocolate chips or baking chocolate
1 tablespoon coconut oil

Optional:

Instructions

Ground the hemp hearts in the blender or food processor until they look similar to the texture and size of large sand.
Mix the ground hemp hearts with the almond flour in a bowl. Next, add the almond butter and maple syrup and mix until well-combined. It will form a soft dough. Spread the dough into a greased 8x8 square pan. Set aside and prepare the chocolate.
In a small saucepan, melt the chocolate chips with the coconut oil over medium-low heat, stirring constantly so it doesn’t burn. Using a spatula, cover the bars evenly with chocolate. Sprinkle on the sea salt and rose petals as desired.
Let the bars sit in the fridge for 30 minutes and then use a hot knife to cut into 16 bars. Store these bars in the fridge or the freezer until eating (I like eating them frozen).

Notes

For step-by-step photos or more notes on ingredient swaps, scroll up to the blog post.

Almond flour: If you don’t have almond flour, you can make your own almond meal and use that. All you need to do is blend about 1 cup of raw almonds in a high-powered blender or coffee grinder until it turns into a sand-like texture. Then use 1 cup of almond meal instead of 1 cup of almond flour for this recipe.

Almond Butter: To make your own almond butter with just almonds, use my recipe. You can replace almond butter with peanut butter, other nut butters, sun (sunflower seed) butter, or tahini (ground-up sesame seeds). These nut butters can be runnier than almond butter so you may need to add more almond flour until you get a dough-like consistency.

Nut free: Replace 1 cup almond flour with 1 cup buckwheat flour (to make your own buckwheat flour, ground buckwheat groats in a high-power blender). Then use 1 cup of tahini or homemade pumpkin seed butter instead of 1 cup of almond butter.

For other almond flour bars, try these easy cookie dough bars.

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