I love RX bars, but to buy them all the time gets kinda pricey, plus I like the challenge of making my own. These raspberry chocolate RX bars were a seasonal item around Valentine’s day but now you can have them year round!
This does require a few ingredients you might not already have on hand but buy them once and then the staples like the protein powder, nuts, and dates can be used for all the rest of the kinds you make. It’s addicting to start making them and then you too can have a stockpile in your freezer 🙂
A note before you make these, however, is that if you are going to dehydrate your own raspberries, it’s easy but time consuming. It takes about 2.5-3 hours to do this, so plan for this with plenty of time before you start making the bars. Again, I do this myself because dehydrated berries from the store are FULL of sugar, and you can’t use freeze dried fruit because it is powdery once crushed and you need the bit of moisture in a dehydrated berry to help hold the mixture together.
Ingredients:
- ½ C almonds
- ½ C cashews
- ¾ C egg white protein powder (I get mine from Amazon)
- 1 ½ C dates (about 12 dates)
- ½ C dried raspberries (2 small packages of fresh berries)
- 2 tbsp cocoa nibs
Makes 8 bars
Now you make it:
- To dehydrate the raspberries in the oven: preheat oven to 200 and spread berries out on a lined baking sheet for 2.5 to 3 hours. They should be soft and chewy but still shrunken
- Put almonds and cashews in the food processor and pulse until they are a coarsely ground
- Add the remaining ingredients and blend until a ball forms in the food processor
- Line a pan (a standard bread loaf pan works best I think, but use whatever you’ve got) and press raspberry chocolate RX bars into the pan and smooth out
- Freeze for about 20 minutes so they can set before you cut them into bars. Wrap individually and store either in the refrigerator or freezer.
Enjoy!!
Check out more copycat RX bar recipes here!
