4 Ingredients Peanut Butter and Amaranth Bars [gluten free]

When I was wondering who would like these bars the most, I couldn’t make up my mind. For obvious reasons this is a great option for peanut butter and chocolate lovers as well as everybody who has a sweet tooth. But including amaranth in this recipe and using high quality ingredients makes it a healthy treat so whoever is into healthy diet, will also be extremely happy with them. And also, you need only 4 ingredients and max. 15 minutes to make these bars so either people who don’t like complicated recipes or those who don’t like to (or can’t) spend too much time in the kitchen should be ecstatic as well.

So I still don’t know which group would like them the most. But what I do know is that my family loved them: they disappeared in no time!

INGREDIENTS (for 16 bars):

160g peanut butter,

100g honey,

30g amaranth popping,

100g dark chocolate (60% cocoa).

METHOD:

1. Cover a bottom and sides of a small baking tray (I used 14 cm x 23cm) with baking parchment.
2. Put the peanut butter and honey to a pan and warm up on a medium heat until runny (but don’t boil them).
3. Add the amaranth popping and stir well.
4. Transfer it into the prepared tin and smooth with the back of a spatula.
5. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or over a pan of simmering water and pour over the amaranth mixture.
6. Spread it and leave in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.

These bars have been inspired by a recipe from www.simplyquinoa.com

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Nutella and Peanut Butter Cake

If you – just like us – belong to a peanut butter and Nutella fan tribe, this cake will take you to heaven: it includes both ingredients that combined together create an unforgettable experience. Obviously this is not the healthiest cake in the World, but I do believe that if you have it from time to time it will do no harm to your waistline nor to your overall healthy diet. But I bet it will bring a smile to your face!

It is a speedily made cake: your oven will probably need more time to heat up than you will need to prepare it. It means that - in case of unexpected guests – you could have it ready in slightly more than half an hour. And you don’t have to worry about ingredients, probably - just like us - you always have them in your cupboard ;-)

INGREDIENTS (for 16 pieces):

250g butter,

6 tbsp Nutella (or other chocolate spread),

90g Demerara sugar,

3 eggs,

80g all purpose flour,

0.75 tsp baking powder,

3 tsp cocoa powder,

1 -2 tbsp crunchy peanut butter,

sunflower oil for greasing.

METHOD:

1. Preheat a fan oven to 160 Celsius degrees.
2. Grease with oil and line with baking paper a 15cm x 23cm rectangle (or 20cm square) tin. This video shows a great way how to line a tin with baking paper so that it is very easy later to take the cake out.
3. Put all the ingredients except for the peanut butter to a food processor and whizz them until combined and smooth; transfer to the baking tin.
4. Drop small portions of the peanut butter into the cake, trying to push it to the batter; smooth the top.
5. Bake in the hot oven for 25 minutes.

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