Snacks

Nutritional FactsPer bar (makes 8)
Calories265
Fat16g
Fiber5g
Protein11g
Sugar3g
Carbs23g
Sodium75mg
🧂 75mg sodium — comfortably under our 500mg cap
Peanut Butter Cacao Crunch Bars
Baked peanut butter oat bars studded with crunchy cacao nibs — the chocolate–peanut classic with zero added sugar.
💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 11g
- Peanut butter incl. drizzle (7g)
- Oats (3g)
- Hemp seeds (1g)
🍃 Sugar-Free Option
No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.
Ingredients (all organic)
- ✓ Rolled oats, 1.5 cups
- ✓ Peanut butter, 2/3 cup + 2 tbsp for the drizzle
- ✓ Unsweetened soy milk, 1/2 cup
- ✓ Cacao nibs, 3 tbsp
- ✓ Hemp seeds, 2 tbsp
- ✓ Pure stevia powder, 1/4 tsp
- ✓ Vanilla, 1 tsp
- ✓ Baking powder, 1/2 tsp
- ✓ Pinch of sea salt
How to Prep
- 1Warm the peanut butter until stirrable; whisk with soy milk, stevia, and vanilla.
- 2Fold in oats, hemp seeds, baking powder, salt, and most of the cacao nibs.
- 3Press into a parchment-lined 8×8 pan; scatter the rest of the nibs on top and press them in.
- 4Bake at 350°F for 18–20 minutes until set and golden at the edges. Cool fully before slicing into 8 bars.
- 5The drizzle: warm 2 tbsp peanut butter until it pours, zigzag it over the cooled bars, and chill 10 minutes to set.
- 6Keeps a week refrigerated or a month frozen.
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📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland
Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:
- Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
- Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
- Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
- Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
- Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
- Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park
More metro areas coming as Rootful grows. Or get it delivered — coming soon →
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