Chocolate Cranberry Travel Bites
These delicious morsels pack a punch in a small package. Take a few in your bag of holding on your next Dungeons and Dragons quest and don't worry about your hunger or energy levels at all!
Servings 25 balls
Calories 160kcal
Cost 10 gold
Equipment
- food processor
- Baking sheet
- parchment paper
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 ⅓ cup sliced raw almonds
- ⅔ cup 70-85% dark chocolate chopped into small pieces
- ½ cup dried cranberries look for a brand that doesn't add a lot of sugar, preferably none
- 1 tsp ground ceylon cinnamon regular cinnamon is fine but ceylon is just a bit healthier
- ½ to ¾ tsp salt to taste
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup creamy unsalted almond butter or peanut butter
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup honey or lite maple syrup to reduce calories
Instructions
- Pour your dry ingredients into a bowl and combine well.
- Pour your wet ingredients into a microwaveable bowl and combine well. If the nut butter is too thick you can microwave it for 10 seconds at a time to soften it. Let it cool back to room temperature before moving to the next step, otherwise the chocolate will melt.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients, mixing well.
- Lay parchment paper onto your baking sheet. Spoon roughly golf ball sized bites in a grid onto your baking sheet, adjusting their size so you have around 20 balls. Squish each ball slightly to make a somewhat-cylindrical shape.
- Cover the sheet with plastic wrap or more parchment paper and refrigerate for on hour or longer.
- Serve to your Dungeons and Dragons table during their next day of travel!
Notes
These energy balls carry 160 calories, 10g fat, 16g carbs, and 5g protein, making them a great way to fill up on the go and sneak in a bit of protein. You can make them even better by substituting light maple syrup for the honey to reduce the carbs in each. Serve these during your next Dungeons and Dragons travel day or other fantasy tabletop role playing game and let us know how your quest goes!
This recipe is part of our new series of "Tavern food made healthy", an initiative we're taking to make fantasy foods come to life in a way that aligns with your health goals. Each recipe will take rustic foods, make some easy tweaks to improve their nutrition, and focus on flavor that any adventurer could be excited by. This recipe was done in partnership with Tank Tolman, an amazing fantasy-inspired fitness creator that we've been fans of for a long time. This recipe and many more can be found on Tank's Training app. A library of healthy recipes along with a ton of fantasy inspired workout plans like Barbarian Hammer Workouts and Ranger Bodyweight Workouts, and a welcoming community of others working on leveling up their fitness and cheering each other along, are all part of this awesome app. You can get started on the app today at https://www.gameplanapps.com/tank