Protein x2

Today I am sharing the recipe on how to make your own protein bars. The upside to this method is that you control what ingredients go into them. More importantly what does NOT!

First we start with the ingredients, here is what I used:

Oats - not instant, cranberries, cinnamon, almonds, raisins, hard red whole wheat flour, vanilla protein powder.

The cooking spray or some other method of oiling the pan is not in this picture, but is one of the very necessary items.



Oh, yea...eggs, gotta have eggs - the offering:

After measuring (recipe at end), put all the dry ingredients into the food processor (thank you Lord for such a wonderful tool!)


Mix well, should be coarse, but well chopped.

Next add the wet ingredients. That would be the eggs and honey.

After oiling your pan, pour (well, as close to pouring as one can get ~ LOL) and mash it around to make it as evenly disbursed as possible.

And here we have the protein 'cake' ~ LOL. Once it is cooked and cut into squares, they will be 'bars.'

Energy Bar Recipe ~ Original

Cooking spray

1 cup quick-cooking oats

1/2 cup shelled unsalted raw sunflower seeds

1/2 cup toasted wheat germ

1/4 cup whole-grain pastry flour or whole-wheat flour

1/2 cup dried apricots

1/2 cup raw almonds

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup pitted dried dates

1/2 cup nonfat dry milk

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/3 cup pure maple syrup

2 large eggs

Preheat oven to 350. Coat a 9x13 inch baking pan with cooking spray.

Place all ingredients, except maple syrup and eggs, in a food processor and pulse until everything is finely chopped. Add the syrup and eggs and pulse until mixture is well combined. It will resemble a coarse paste.

Transfer to the baking pan and spread evenly to cover the bottom. Bake until lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, then cut into 24 bars. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for about 3 days or wrap individually and freeze for up to 3 months.

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Notes: All ingredients marked in purple I used as is, all ingredients in red were modified. I used 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour. Fresh milled grain contains the wheat germ, thus I should have bumped up the dosage. I used 1/4 cup of vanilla protein powder (instead of dry milk), I probably should have used a 1/2 cup. Instead of maple syrup (which is kinda pricey) I used local raw honey.

These came out well, I thought they were not 'done' enough and left them in the oven (with it off) while I finished up something else and they came out a little dry. Everyone who tasted them said they were quite delicious.