Spicy Chocolate Energy Bars
These homemade energy bars offer the taste of chocolate with a bit of a bite. The macadamia nuts help replace lost electrolytes while the jalapeño pepper creates a feeling of warmth in the body.
Excerpted from Thrive Diet by Brendan Brazier, courtesy Penguin Canada
Ingredients
- 1 small banana
- 1/2 jalapeño
- 3/4 cup fresh or soaked dry dates
- 1/2 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup roasted carob powder (or cacao nibs to make 100% raw)
- 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
- 1/4 cup macadamia nuts
- sea salt to taste
- 2 tbsp hemp seeds
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Instructions
- In a food processor, process all ingredients except hemp seeds to desired consistency. Cover mixture in hemp seeds before forming into bars, or form into balls then roll in hemp seeds to coat (you may need more than 2 tbsp).
