Nut Bar Recipe

Paleo Bars with Nuts and Chocolate Drizzle – These homemade protein-packed snacks are crunchy, sweet, and deliciously wholesome. Plus, this easy nut bars recipe also happens to be gluten-free, paleo, and vegan!

Why We Love This Paleo Nut Bar Recipe

I’ve made healthy granola bars, energy bars, and energy balls plenty of times before. However, my latest Paleo Bar Recipe with Chocolate Drizzle is a real winner, because it’s made solely out of nuts, organic, non-GMO sweeteners, and a little spice.

Sommer’s Recipe Notes

Both of my kids LOVE this Nut Bar Recipe with Chocolate Drizzle. The reason they love them so much is that these Paleo Bars with Chocolate Drizzle are sweet and super crunchy. And I, as a parent, love them because they’re all of those good things, PLUS they are:

• Paleo
• Gluten-free
• Dairy-free
• Vegan

So, unless you’re dealing with a nut allergy, these bars are perfect for everyone!

Ingredients You Need

Here’s everything you need to make this fabulous sweet and lightly salty snack:

• Raw nuts – we use a combination of whole cashews, almonds, pecans, and walnuts
• Raw pepitas – AKA lil pumpkin seeds
• Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
• Organic Blue Agave
• Vanilla extract – I recommend organic for the best flavor
• Sea salt – a generous bit to balance the sweetness
• Cinnamon – the “secret” ingredient to make sweet dishes taste extra delicious
• Dark chocolate – organic 80% dark chocolate is my fave

Ingredient Note: Once the coconut sugar melts into the agave, it creates a sticky base for the bars that will harden enough to form the bars, yet it isn’t tough on your teeth. The touch of vanilla, salt, and cinnamon gives these snack bars extra oomph, making them hard to resist.

How to Make Homemade Paleo Nut Bars with Chocolate

Find the full Nut Bar recipe with ingredient proportions, detailed instructions, storing instructions, and a video tutorial in the printable form at the bottom of the post.

Pro Tip: Spread the bars apart after slicing them. If you leave them right next to each other, they can get sticky and essentially glue themselves back together.

How to Make a Vegan Dark Chocolate Drizzle

You can enjoy these nut bars as-is, or drizzle the tops with a little dark chocolate. Here’s how:

1. Break a bar of dark chocolate into pieces and place over a double-boiler to melt.
2. Once melted, pour the chocolate into a plastic bag.
3. Snip off a tiny portion of the corner, and pipe the chocolate over the bars. Allow the chocolate to dry before eating or wrapping.

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Paleo Bar Recipe with Chocolate Drizzle

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Homemade protein-packed Paleo Bars with Nuts are crunchy, sweet, delicious, and wholesome. This easy nut bars recipe has a chocolate drizzle, and happens to be gluten-free, paleo, and vegan!

Servings: 24 bars

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups whole raw cashews
• 1 1/2 cups whole raw almonds
• 1 cup chopped raw pecans
• 1 cup chopped raw walnuts
• 1 cup raw pepitas pumpkin seeds
• 1 cup Wholesome!™ Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
• 1/3 cup Wholesome!™ Organic Blue Agave
• 1 tablespoon organic vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons sea salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 ounces organic 80% dark chocolate optional

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F, and line a 9×13-inch baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside. In a large bowl, mix the cashews, almonds, pecans, walnuts, and pepitas.
• Pour the Wholesome!™ Coconut Palm Sugar, Agave, vanilla extract, sea salt, and cinnamon in a large sauce pot. Bring to a simmer and stir to dissolve the sugar. The moment the sugar is completely melted, and the edges are bubbling, turn off the heat and pour in the nuts. Quickly mix the nuts into the syrup with a wooden spoon, until they are completely coated. Pour the nut mixture out onto the prepared baking sheet. Use a piece of wax paper to press the mixture firmly together.
• Bake the nut bars on the center rack for approximately 20 minutes until the tops are golden. Then (this is the hard part) allow the nut bars to cool for at least 45 minutes in the pan.
• Lift the whole pan of nut bars out of the pan, by the edges of the parchment paper. Cut into 24 bars. Spread the bars apart. Break one 4 ounce bar of dark chocolate into pieces and place over a double-boiler to melt. Once melted, pour the chocolate into a plastic bag. Snip off a tiny portion of the corner, and pipe the chocolate over the bars. Allow the chocolate to dry before wrapping. Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for 1 week, or in the fridge for up to a month.

Notes

Pro Tips: Buying nuts can be expensive – Buy them in bulk if possible. And remember, this recipe make 24 bars. Compare that to the $2-3 a piece for store-bought nut bars and the recipe ingredients are a bargain!

If you don’t like a particular nut, feel free to make substitutions. Just be sure to have 3 cups whole nuts and 3 cups of small nut pieces, so they hold together well.

Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for 1 week, or in the fridge for up to a month.

For easy lunchbox treats, wrap them individually and keep them in the freezer for up to 2-3 months. That way, they’ll keep a long time and cool the rest of the lunchbox items as they thaw.

Nutrition

Calories: 233kcal, Carbohydrates: 16g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 17g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 8g, Trans Fat: 0.005g, Cholesterol: 0.1mg, Sodium: 209mg, Potassium: 214mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 9g, Vitamin A: 6IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 40mg, Iron: 2mg

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Author: Sommer Collier

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