Orange Coffee Energy Bars
The perfect snack to prep at the weekend to give you a boost during the week.
These vegan orange coffee energy bars are zesty, chocolatey are the perfect snack to choose before a workout or even during a busy work day.
All you need are some oats, dates, a few nuts, coffee beans, orange and some chocolate.
What you need to make Orange Coffee Energy Bars
- Rolled oats
- Orange
- Fresh orange juice
- Medjool dates
- Hazelnuts
- Ground coffee beans
- Cocoa powder
- Dark chocolate
- Pinch of sea salt
How to make Orange Coffee Energy Bars
Line a baking tin (approx 20 cms square) with parchment paper, overlapping the top, so easy to remove the bars.
Place all the ingredients into a food processor, and blitz until forms a sticky paste. If too crumbly add a splash or water (or fresh orange juice) and blitz again.
Turn out the mixture into the baking tin, and firmly press down, making sure you every spread out the mixture and get into all the corners. Press down all over, then place in fridge for a couple of hours to firm.
Remove from fridge and drizzle over melted chocolate. Leave to set in fridge. Turn out and cut into bars.
The recipe is flexible, so 100g of dates could be substituted for dried apricots or golden sultanas.
If you don’t like or have any hazelnuts in your store cupboard, then just switch them out for any nuts of your choice.
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Orange Coffee Energy Bars
Ingredients
- 200 g rolled oats
- 1 orange, zest of
- 2 tsps fresh orange juice
- 400 g medjool dates
- 50 g hazelnuts
- 2 tbsp ground coffee beans
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 45 g dark chocolate (broken into pieces)
- sea salt (just a pinch )
Top with
- 45 g dark chocolate (melted)
Instructions
- Line a baking tin (approx 20 cms square) with parchment paper, overlapping the top, so easy to remove the bars.
- Place all the ingredients into a food processor, and blitz until forms a sticky paste. If too crumbly add a splash or water (or fresh orange juice) and blitz again.
- Turn out the mixture into the baking tin, and firmly press down, making sure you every spread out the mixture and get into all the corners. Press down all over, then place in fridge for a couple of hours to firm.
- Remove from fridge and drizzle over melted chocolate. Leave to set in fridge. Turn out and cut into bars.
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Notes
- The recipe is flexible, so 100g of dates could be substituted for dried apricots or golden sultanas.
- If you don’t like or have any hazelnuts in your store cupboard, then just switch them out for any nuts of your choice.
Nutrition
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9 comments
Amy
these look amazing, can’t wait to try! do you know if they freeze well?
Madeleine Olivia
I haven’t tried freezing these Amy, but I don’t see why not!
Albina
I’ve just made these delicious bars. I love the subtle taste of orange in them. My boyfriend doesn’t like coffee sweets, so I used 3 tbsp of cocoa instead. And we didn’t have any hazelnuts, so I used almonds and it works perfectly well.
Ammi
I just made these and I’m so pleased with the result! I used cashews instead of hazelnuts and about half the coffee it called for so I could eat them at night haha. The only downside was that the mixture was so thick that it was hard on my food processor, so I had to add a lot of extra liquid. This made the bars a bit soft, but still delicious!
Francesca
Hello Madeline! I made these delicious brownies for my partner! He appreciated them so much and we ate them in 2 days! I followed your recipes, I only skipped the topping. They were so gooey and yummy. I’m going to make them again since they’re healthy and they help satisfy my sweet craving. Thank you!
Leeann
Do you have the nutritional breakdown of these bars? 🙂
Madeleine Olivia
Unfortunately I don’t have that info Leeann. We are working on the website to include this kind of information though so watch this space!
Laura M
These were SO incredible! The coffee and orange are so lovely together. I swapped the hazelnuts for walnuts. Don’t think these will be around for long!
Madeleine Olivia
I’m so pleased you enjoyed them Laura. I LOVE them! <3