Oats, Peanut Butter and Protein Powder Bars

This week anyone celebrating Diwali will be making or buying sweets and savouries .   Are you Looking for ideas of making sweets for Diwali?    Try my recipe for this no cook White Chocolate-Walnut and Dates Bar .  It’s quick and easy to make and will impress your guests.  As this no cook bar was such a success, I also made this versions of no cook high protein bars.  These look a bit like millionaire’s bars you get in the shops so my kids were happy to try these.   This recipe has ground oats, nuts, honey and protein powder topped with chocolate.  The dish looks amazing and  It’s such a quick and popular recipe that it’s going to be one of the sweets  I make for Diwali as I know that it will impress my guests. 

The main ingredients I used are:

Oats:  I used our everyday cereal oats which I ground in a coffee grinder.

Peanut Butter:   I used the smooth creamy one. Peanut butter is high in proteins and also help bind the bars.

Protein Powder: You can use any brand or flavored  of protein powder you have.  I used the Impact Whey Protein Powder which comes in lots of different flavours. This protein powder was recommended to my husband  by my son who is a physiotherapist who exercises a lot.  This powder contains high-quality protein, which contributes to the growth and maintenance of muscle.  This protein powder has sweeteners so no extra sugar is added to the bars

Chocolate:  I used cooking chocolate but you can use any chocolate.

Coarse salt:  Just adding a little coarse salt gives this dish a salted caramel kind of a feel and you won’t stop eating these bars.

Is this recipe vegan? This particular recipe isn’t vegan but very easy to make it vegan by substituting the chocolate and chocolate chips to vegan chocolate.

 

Jump to Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup oats which I blended in a coffee maker
• ½ cup smooth peanut butter
• ¼ cup protein powder
• 2 tbls melted butter (vegans can use plant based Flora)
• 2 tbls honey (vegans can use maple syrup)
• ¼ tsp coarse salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• ¼ cup extra dark dairy chocolate chips (vegans can use vegan chocolate)

For the topping

• 150 grams cooking chocolate bar (vegans can use vegan chocolate bar)
• 2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
• 1 tbsp butter (vegans can use plant based Flora)

 

Method

1.  Mix the oat flour, protein powder, salt,  peanut butter, butter, honey, chocolate chips and vanilla in a bowl.

2.   Transfer this mixture to a lined loaf tin and leave it in the fridge for an hour.

3. After an hour, breakup the chocolate in a bowl and add the butter and peanut butter.  Heat this in the microwave for 20 seconds at a time, stirring in between until it’s runny. Do not over do this step as the chocolate could burn.

4.  Pour it over the cold oats and protein powder mixture, swivel the tin to coat every bit evenly,  and put it back in the fridge for an hour. .

5.  After an hour remove from the fridge and slice it ready to eat.

If you do have any leftovers – they should be kept in the fridge.

You may wish to checkout the following easy and different recipes for Diwali:

• Muesli or granola bars
• Goji berry cereal bars
• Nutty Energy Ladoos with dates
• More Diwali Savouries
• More Diwali sweets

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