These gorgeous looking bars are the perfect breakfast or snack. They take 10 minutes to make, are no-bake, and are great for taking on-the-go. Packed with protein, naturally sweetened and bursting with fruity flavour they are a healthy and delicious dessert or snack.

These wholesome cranberry-orange nut bars are a great healthy snack! They are made with nuts, dried cranberries and orange zest.

Easily customizable, you can add your own choice of nuts or dried fruit. The intense crimson colour is created with freeze dried fruit powder but this can be left out and they will taste just as good.

Quickly whipped up in the blender, you can always have on hand some healthy, tasty anytime snacks. Much better than reaching for something unhealthy and loaded with sugar and/or other nasty chemicals.

This is called the “addition” diet which is all about adding foods into your diet that ‘contribute’ to your health balance and enhancing meals and snacks by incorporating nutrient-dense options.

The idea with improving eating habits, instead of fixating on what to eliminate, this approach encourages adding wholesome options to enhance the overall nutritional value of the diet.

Its all about finding healthy replacements for your ‘not so healthy’ favourite foods so you don’t even miss them. Keeping a stock of healthy treats like this simple, no fuss Cranberry-Orange Nut Bars is the best way to do this.

Cranberries get their beautiful crimson red color from antioxidant pigments called anthocyanins. They also include a wide range of other phytonutrients like flavonols and phenols that help fight free radical damage and reduce inflammation in the body.

The good fats coming from nuts and coconut oil further have anti-inflammatory properties, provide sustainable energy, balance blood sugar, and help us glow from the inside out. So don’t take these bars as just dessert, but rather think of them as health and beauty food.

Every time I make this recipe, it doesn’t last in my house for more than two days. My family just can’t get enough of them!

These delightful bars offer a creamy experience like no other, packed with healthy whole food ingredients. With their smooth texture and balanced sweetness, they are sure to tantalize your taste buds and satisfy your cravings.

When you need a quick snack or an energy boost during the day, this Cranberry-Orange Nut Bars recipe is the perfect choice for indulgence.

Cranberry-Orange Nut Bars

These energy bars are made from dried fruits and nuts and have a natural sweet taste. Cranberries and rich macadamia nuts are the highlight in this delicious little bar. Super easy, no-bake, and no added sugars!

 

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine Healthy Clean Eating

Keyword clean eating dessert or snack, cranberry macadamia nut energy bars, cranberry nut energy bars, cranberry orange nut bars

Servings 8

Ingredients

• 1 cup macadamia nuts
• 1/2 cup blanched almonds
• 1 cup dates, soaked 30 minutes and drained
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
• 1 orange, juice and zest
• 1 tablespoon freeze dried raspberry powder - optional

Instructions

• Line a 7 x 5-inch loaf pan or dish with parchment paper on the bottom and sides leaving some overhanging to act as a handle to get the bars out easier for cutting.

  Place all the ingredients in a food processor and process until well combined and the mixture is sticky. Be careful not to over process as its nice to have texture variance and different sized “bits” in your energy bars.

  Tip the mixture into the baking tin, spread out evenly with the back of a spoon.

  Place in the fridge for a couple of hours to firm up then remove from the baking tin, using the long ends of the parchment paper as handles and cut into 10-12 bars.

  Store the bars in the fridge in between snacking for about a week or up to 3 months in the freezer.

   

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