We were hungry for something new at breakfast-time, and my mostly-vegetarian family just loves nuts. Inspired by Our Paleo Life, we were able to come up with a recipe that is better than any Kind Bar we’ve bought. These nut bars are perfection, and have become a family breakfast or snack-time staple. This recipe, like all my recipes, is meant to be played with, to suit your palate and what’s in your cupboards:
Use any combination of the following nuts, to reach a total of about 6 cups:
Almonds
Walnuts
Pecans
Pumpkin Seeds
Hazelnuts
Chop nuts into smaller sizes, so you have pieces of nuts that’ll stick together well in a bar.
Add:
1/2 Cup Flax Seeds
1/2 Cup Toasted Coconut
1/2 Cup Rolled Oats
1/2 Teaspoon Sea Salt (I use a Fleur de Sel)
1/4 Cup Cacao
1/4 – 1/2 Cup Agave
1/2 Cut Raisins
1/2 Cup Peanut Butter
3-4 Tablespoons Molasses
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Mix everything together in a bowl and place the mixture into a glass baking dish lined with parchment paper that comes up the sides.
Place in a preheated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes. Press the mixture down with your overlapped parchment when you pull it out of the oven, to compress the bar mixture. Pull out the square mixture with the parchment paper sides and place on a wire rack to let it cool for 30 minutes. Press your large square again when your mixture has cooled and then turn the whole thing over and place on another square of parchment so the bottom is facing up.
Cut your nut mixture into bars and wrap individually for snacks!
Pioneering The Simple Life 
Just to ensure nothing gets lost in translation: what do you mean by molasses? Blackstrap molasses or what we would call golden syrup and would maple syrup be suitable?
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I use organic unsulphured blackstrap molasses. I love it! Old fashioned goodness. But of course maple syrup would be excellent, too.
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I love blackstrap molasses but it would just sit in the cupboard for years for the number of times it’s used, no-one else will have it.
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In this recipe, you really don’t taste it, but it enhances the nuts and goes brilliantly with all the other ingredients.
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It sounds yum! 😊
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My husband makes something similar except he uses corn syrup instead of molasses. It would be excellent with molasses now that I think of it though. I would love this and the kids probably would too.
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Can’t wait to make these. We do a similar ” raw protein ball” but having something that was baked would last better while hiking. Thanks for sharing!
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These look great. I had to check that agave was a syrup, because I hadn’t seen it here but the local supermarket does stock it, so that’s a go.
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