I am sharing a recipe for cacao super food energy bars!

Making cacao treats is a sensual and tactile experience. I suggest you use ingredients that appeal to you in flavor, and in the way they smell, look and feel. Think like an artist; a painting gets better as you let the painting come through. Make your treats when you are happy, grateful and relaxed. Food takes on the energy of how you feel when you prepare it.

The base for the raw super food energy bars is dates or figs and some nuts or seeds or both. Nut butters, seed butters and spices are all optional. You’ll even still have super food energy bars if you don’t use the cacao, but hey, that sort of makes me sad to think about. I am crazy for cacao.

CACAO SUPER FOOD ENERGY BARS

1 cup figs or dates (add water if necessary for creating moisture or if not using a food processor)

1 cup Walnuts or Pecans

1/3 C cacao powder

¼ C Hemp seeds

1/2 C nut or seed butter (peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, or tahini are all ones that I have used)

¼ C cacao nibs (optional)

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract or powder

a few pinches of sea salt

¼ cup 100% maple syrup or 1/8 cup honey or 1 1/2 tablespoons of agave nectar

I’ve made these coarse and put them into lined mini-muffin tins. I’ve made them fine and smashed them into pans with edges. I’ve made them finer and rolled them into truffles. Truffles can be rolled and then coated with a nut/seed/cacao nib and spice mixture. Experiment and have some fun.