You can make these little chocolate crunchy babies in 5 minutes and you only need 5 ingredients!

This little creation of mine came from my desire to replicate a little treat my grandmother used to make. It was a chocolate cluster like this but using crunchy Chinese noodle things, melted chocolate, raisins and peanuts. So quick and easy but not the healthiest and my boys are allergic to nuts.  So I re-created it in a healthy way.

They were a HUGE success with the kids and for only 50+ calories, pretty good in my book too!

My kids and I thought these were delish! The hubby thought they weren’t sweet enough. We only used 2 teaspoons of stevia and it was good, but you may need to increase to suit your families taste buds.

Pour the chocolate in the bowl with the cereal and fruit and mix until all incorporated.

Drop by spoonfuls into mini silicone baking cups or paper cups. Here are mine:

Kitchen Collection Silicone Mini Baking Cups Set of 12

Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and enjoy one! or two or 🙂

They hold together just fine when cold and refrigerated. They need to stay refrigerated until you are ready to eat them or serve them. They will easily fall apart a bit once left out on the counter, especially if its warm out.

If you’re family is not allergic to nuts some delicious add -in’s to this would be peanuts!

My kids actually didn’t even know the dried cherries were dried cherries! They thought they were chocolate covered mini marshmallows!

I just smiled 🙂

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HAVE you ever intended to make one recipe and then it didn’t turn out at all like you planned, but in fact it worked better?

That’s what happened with this recipe. I made it first to be more like a breakfast cookie and they tasted fantastic, but they looked downright hideous!

I mean they were ugly as ugly comes. So the second time I made them I spread out the batter I worked with and……

…….low and behold they became the best oatmeal and fruit bar I have ever had.

You can feel really good about letting your kids have this for breakfast. Full of healthy oatmeal and dried fruit. Its a perfect on the run breakfast or easy snack to take anywhere.

My oldest hates oatmeal so by sneaking it in this recipe he doesn’t even notice he’s having it.

You can really get even a little more versatile with them and add some nuts if you and family aren’t allergic. You can change the dried fruit as well. But this is what worked for us and I’m sticking with it. If you do make variations with it I’d love to hear from you.

Additional Notes:

• Spread some nut-butter on top for more protein.
• If you are gluten free, make sure you are using gluten free oats.
• You could change the tahini to any nut butter of your choice.
• Replace sunflower seeds with nuts if you like.
• If you don’t have tahini you can sub it with sunbutter.
• I do NOT recommend any other substitutions except for the tahini, sunflower seeds and dried fruit.
• Do NOT eliminate the dates in this recipe. They are what add the awesome sweetness to the whole bar.

Recipe adapted from Eat Better America.

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