Today’s VeganMoFo prompt is:
3. Quick, easy and delicious
The quickest, easiest and most delicious recipe that I make like, nearly every day lately, are these no bake chocolate oatmeal bars. You guys. These little bars of healthy deliciousness are like little fudgy pieces of heaven.
Sometimes I complicate the recipe a bit. These no bake chocolate oatmeal bars can be adapted so easily. Sometimes I add peppermint extract. Or strawberry extract. Or coconut. Or peanut butter. Or orange juice & rind. Soooo many things you could do!
But this is the base recipe. My secret formula.
My husband has seriously asked for this recipe (in some form or other) EVERY night for about a month now. And I don’t mind making it for him every night, because it takes like 2 minutes. And it’s sugar free – my husband is a sugar fiend, he eats a bag of lollies nearly every night, unless I make him some healthy sugar-free treat like this ;)
Quick, easy, delicious. And healthy.
- 2 cups rolled oats
- ¼ cup almonds
- 3 tbs cacao powder
- 5 medjool dates, pitted
- 2-3 tbs water, or as needed
- Blend the oats, almonds and cacao in a high speed blender until fine.
- While blending, drop in the dates, one at a time.
- Use the tamper if needed.
- Add a bit of water to help it come together like a dough (don't worry if you add too much, the oats will absorb it!).
- Scoop out of the blender and into a small tray (mine was 3 inches by 6 inches) and press down.
- Cut into bars or squares.
- Eat immediately or store in an airtight container*.
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Comment below and tell me:
- VeganMoFoer’s: what did you share for today’s prompt?
- What would your favourite variation of these bars be?
Linking up with #freefromfridays and Healthy Vegan Fridays.
Oh! I soooo needed to see this post and recipe today! Thank you! Looks amazing! I also added you to my MoFo BlogRoll! Thanks again!
Thanks Jennifer! And thank you for the add to the MoFo blog roll, I appreciate it :)
5-ingredient bars? Talk about quick and easy! But also delicious sounding. This will be making it into my snack rotation =)
Thanks Kimmy – with a recipe so quick and easy like this, it’s hard for it not to become a regular snack :D
ps. Thanks for sharing this at HVF! It’s being featured this week and I’m pinning it =)
Awww thank you for featuring these bars Kimmy!
I completely agree with Jenn and Kimmy above. Love this recipe! My son is in college and he is a health fiend and won’t have anything with added sugar. This sounds like the real deal!
Zsu @ Zsu’s Vegan Pantry
Your son sounds like me – I won’t have anything with added sugar either (well, most of the time!). Loving naturally sweetened snacks like these instead :)
This looks amazing! Quick question, you used a blender, but do you think a food processor would still be a good replacement?
Hi Jennifer, yes a food processor would definitely work for this recipe – I only use my blender as I don’t own a food processor :)
I really like quick snack ideas like this. My eldest is aaaalways snooping through the kitchen saying he’s hungry so these would come in very handy!
Hahaha yes I can relate, my eldest (and middle child too!) are always hanging around in the kitchen…”I’m hungry mummy”…this is one way to keep them happy for a while lol :)
Oh my, these look delicious, would make a great snack for lunch boxes, thank you for sharing x
Yes, these bars would be excellent to pack for the kids to take to school :) thanks for stopping by, Cathy!
These do sound like heaven. I don’t think you need a variation on them. They sound perfect!
Haha thank you Veggie Product Reviews, they are pretty perfect just as plain chocolate flavour :)
Kyra, I am do bookmarking these to make – soon hopefully, they would be fantastic for brekkie or in the lunch box for work. And I am so thankful that I have a high speed blender, as without it I would struggle to make these. Thanks
Thank you Shaheen! I use my high speed blender so much (I think about 90% of my recent recipes require the use of a high speed blender haha) :)
Wow, they look good! I like the idea of adding coconut to them, I bet that would be amazing.
Coconut is a great addition to these bars, I added some in one time I made them! Coconut is great in everything though, right? ;)
These sound amazing! Could cocoa powder be substituted for cacao?
Yes, definitely! I’m sure you could replace the cacao with cocoa powder with no problems at all :)