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Serves
4
Author Notes
We are skiing for the weekend and I am not a fan of lodge food so I decided to make travel size power bars! I rolled them into balls so they are easy to eat.
They are so good that I hope there is enough for the weekend. —Cindy Anschutz
Ingredients
1 cup
dates, pits removed
1 cup
almonds
1 cup
walnuts
2 tablespoons
dried fruit (blueberries, cranberries)
1/2 cup
chopped dark chocolate (into chip sizes)
1 teaspoon
vanilla
1/4 teaspoon
sea salt
10 ounces
all natural chocolate for melting
Directions
- In your food processor add dates, almonds and walnuts. Pulse 3 times. Add in dried fruit, chocolate, honey, vanilla and sea salt and pulse about 5 times. Feel mixture as it should be sticky. If it is too dry add about a tablespoon of water if not leave it along.
- Take a sauce pot and fill less than 1/2 with water and bring it to a hot temperature but not boiling. Reduce heat to low and add glass bowl with chocolate. Stir constantly using a rubber spatula until almost melted. Remove from pot and continue stirring until chocolate is melted.
- Take mixture and using a small ice cream scoop and forming each ball to about one inch balls.
- Dip and roll each ball into the melted chocolate and set on either parchment paper or a cake warming rack for the chocolate to set.