As a healthier snack for my child’s lunch box – or for my own – I make these “Sweet breadsticks – perfect for the lunch box”.
They are inspired by the Paleo bread but have fibres, dates, bananas and chocolate in them and these ingredients were not a part of the Danish stone age. Cacao nibs enhance the chocolate flavour – if you haven’t got them just add more chocolate. I use dark chocolate, over 70% usually 86% but use the chocolate you like best.
The dates and chocolate make them taste a bit like cake – and my son loves that.
I use to bake them in a square silicone baking pan or a silicone bread pan and I use a baking spray to grease the baking pans.
When you have mixed everything let it rest for 20 minutes or longer to let the flaxseed/linseeds and chia seeds become “jelly-like”. This jelly is supposed to be very healthy and it holds the bread together – the same way as eggs do. I alternate between the general recipe and the suggested variations. The variations I use the most are the addition of vanilla powder and/or nuts.
To use these “Sweet breadsticks” as “breakfast buns” add berries or grated carrots/beets. Bread sticks with berries are hard slicing. If you add blueberries I recommend that you bake them as a bun in a muffin tin.
Sweet breadsticks - perfect for the lunch box
Ingredients
- 250 g "Seed mixture"* or buy a (paleo) mixture
- 10 g cacao nibs (or more chocolate)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 75 g banana 1 = 75 g
- 50 g pitted dates 4-5 = 50 g (You can use raisins)
- 4 eggs
- 50 g "Fiber Diet"** fibrous breakfast cereal made from wheat bran/dates/raisins
- 55 g dark chocolate/dark chocolate chips I prefer between 70-86%
- 30 g dried diced apples
Instructions
- Measure and mix your seeds* if you use cacao nibs mix them in.
- Blend eggs, dates, salt, and banana, into a homogeneous mass in a blender (add one teaspoon of cinnamon or vanilla powder to the mixture).
- Stir the mixture in your seed mix add "fiber diet" ** and mix it well.
- Finally, add chocolate (chips) and apple cubes (if you add blueberries or other fillings do it here).
- Allow the mass to rest for 20+ minutes - or skip this.
- Divide the mass into two portions, and bake the pieces of bread in greased baking pans - in a square flat baking pan and/or a bread pan, about 25-35 min at 150 degrees C.
- Let the bread cool and cut it into strips or slice it.
- Refrigerate.
Notes
- 60 g sesame seeds
- 60 g flaxseed/linseeds
- 60 g sunflower seeds
- 45 g pumpkin seeds
- 25 g chia seeds
- one teaspoon of cinnamon or vanilla powder
- other dried fruits
- 100 g blueberries - bake in a muffin tray
- almonds or nuts
If you use US Customary, remember that the recipe is made using Metric and converted via a plugin.
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