Espresso Buzz Energy Bars Recipes

ESPRESSO BUZZ ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and lightly grease an 8x8-inch square baking pan.
• Take half of the oats along with all of the flax and toss them into your food
• processor. Blend into a coarse meal.
• Stir mixture together with the remaining whole oats, salt, and chocolate chips.
• In a separate bowl, mix the melted margarine, brown rice syrup, brown sugar, coffee, and instant coffee together until that the sugar and instant coffee dissolve.
• Mix the wet and dry ingredients together.
• Pour the mixture into the pan and use a spatula to smooth it down until it evenly fills the pan.
• Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, until the edges begin to brown a bit.
• Cool completely before slicing into bars.

HAWAII ISLAND ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Toasts oats and sesame seed in skillet, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Melt marshmallows, peanut butter, and margarine over medium flame, stirring constantly.
• Add oats, sesame seed, and remaining ingredients.
• Mix well.
• Press into a 9x13-inch pan.
• Cool and cut into bars.

HIGH FIBER ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Combine prunes (and apricots if using) with the orange juice in a blender. Blend until almost smooth, scrapping down the sides of the blender a few times. Stir in the nuts; set mixture aside.
• In a large bowl, cream the margarine, sugar and honey. Beat in the egg. Mix in flour, oats, wheat germ, baking soda and salt to blend thoroughly.
• Grease a 9 × 13-inch baking pan. Spread a little less than half of the flour mixture evenly in the pan. Spread the prune mixture evenly over the mixture in pan, keeping the prune mixture to within 1/2 inch of the edges. Crumble the remaining flour mixture over the top to cover the prune mixture. Pat down gently.
• Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven 30-35 minutes or until browned and springs back to the touch.
• Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars about 1 by 2 inches each.

HOMEMADE ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine oats, sweetened dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, white chocolate chips, sesame seeds, oat bran, flax seeds, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl. Stir in peanut butter, honey, and oil. Press mixture firmly into a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill for 10 minutes to set.
• Slice chilled bars into 2x3-inch squares. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.

NO-BAKE EASY ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Combine the peanut butter and honey in a large nonstick pot and warm over low heat until runny and mixed.
• Mix in the oatmeal and protein powder.
• Do not bake, but heat enough to mix nicely.
• Press into a 9x9 inch pan and let cool (to make cutting them easier, you could stick the covered pan into the refrigerator for a few hours).
• Slice into 16 bars and package in sandwich baggies.

MULTI-GRAIN ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• Lightly grease a 9" x 13" baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine the cereal, raisins, almonds, pumpkin seeds, flours, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
• Stir to mix thoroughly.
• In a separate large bowl, whisk together the oil, brown sugar and egg until blended.
• Stir in the applesauce and vanilla.
• Add the dry ingredients, stirring just until blended.
• Spread the batter in the pan and bake for about 30- 35 minutes or until golden brown and tester inserted in centre comes out clean.
• Let cool until lukewarm on a wire rack before cutting into bars.

SUPER ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix all dry ingredients together.
• Add peanut butter, honey, and vanilla - mix well. (I used my mixer - it's pretty dense).
• Grease a 13x9 baking pan - spread mixture into pan (should be about an inch thick).
• Bake for 15-20 minutes.
• Cool and cut into squares. I'm going to refrigerate them (in the hopes they will hold together a little better).
• Enjoy -- yummy & healthy!

WHOLE WHEAT ENERGY BARS

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Filling: Stir together splenda, cornstarch, 1 cup water and fruit. Cook over medium heat until thick and bubbly. Cool.
• Cream together butter and brown sugar.
• Sift together flour,soda and salt and stir into creamed mixture.
• Add oats and 1 tablespoon of water.
• Firmly pat half of mixture into 13x9 pan.
• Spread filling on top.
• Mix 1 tablespoon of water into remaining mixture.
• Spread on filling and pat smooth.
• Bake for 35-40 minutes.