Range in ingredients allows for you to adjust for your own taste.
3 cups rolled oats. If you need it to be gluten free, get certified gluten free rolled oats.
4-6 tablespoons dutch baking chocolate
1/2 - 1 cup stevia
1/2 to 1 cup fresh ground peanut butter or Adams (or another non-sugar) peanut butter
1/2 to 1 cup no sugar added coconut flakes
1 tablespoon vanilla
3/4 to 1 cup virgin organic coconut oil (put on the stove in a sauce pan until hot, then pour into the mixture above)
Mix well with wooden spoon. Compress into balls with hand and place on a cookie sheet on either plastic or wax paper. Cover with the same. Put in the freezer. When frozen, move into a container for the freezer. Best served frozen.
Many of you will want a little less chocolate and a little less coconut flakes.
Alternate:
Warm slowly in a pan
1/2 cup - 3/4 virgin organic coconut oil
2 square cubes unsweetened baker's chocolate (approximately 240 calories)
3/4 cup to 1 cup Adam's Peanut Butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
In a bowl mix in
3 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1/2 - 3/4 cup (non concentrated) stevia (to taste)You may want to substitute the stevia with truvia or just add a little truvia to improve the taste; however truvia has some sugar in it. The taste will change slightly (usually just a little sweeter with less of an after taste) after cooling.
If you have the more concentrated natural stevia, add about 2-3 tablespoon stevia.
An optional but recommended ingredient is 1/2 - 3/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes.
There are ranges in the ingredients for a couple reasons.
1. Since significantly changing my diet, my taste has also changed significantly and you need to make sure the taste is what you are hoping for. and
2. Stvia and truvia can be new tastes for a lot of people and stevia comes in it's more natural but also more concentrated state and it comes with a filler. This recipe is with the concentrated form. If you use the type of stevia with the filler you will need more. As you mix the oats, coconut flakes, and sweetener into the bowl you can take small tastes with a spoon to find the perfect taste for you remembering it will change slightly after cooling.
Mix well. A wooden spoon works well but clean hands work better.Roll into balls and put in a container so they are not touching each other and put in the refrigerator or freezer. Ready in 4 to six hours. They can also be placed in one rectangular cake pan spooned into the pan as one big cookie to be cut later, with a cover or aluminum foil.
Eat when cooled. The equivalent of about 1/3 cup is plenty for one day. The consumption of a some of the ingredients should be limited. Please read the nutritional information by clicking on the ingredients. Even though there isn't any added sugar or butter does not mean there are no calories. There are plenty of calories.
You will find more information on potential health affects by clicking on the links to the right.
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