Apricot Plum Energy Bites

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl, and Jess from Hello To Fit to create awesome healthy recipes each week!

Today’s theme = Dried Fruit! This is partially because I forgot to read the instructions for a recipe contest earlier this year and had made something else…so why waste a recipe?!

Here’s what I’d been planning on entering! :O

Long long ago, I made 3-Ingredient Energy Bars (more like bites), and last May, Linda gave me a bag of Apricot Coconut Bites that she found at a Cost Plus World Market while she was out in California. (We take turns visiting our home state, so it seems.)

They were all sorts of delicious, so I decided to try to revisit that old energy bar recipe + semi-recreate her supermarket find with dried plums! I actually like dried plums a whole lot more than I do the fresh fruit (which is somewhat rare for me)–I just never seem to have luck with finding fresh plums with the perfect amount sweet and tart!

Stick em’ in an ice tray for easy portioning/chillin’!

I have a lot of dried fruit + nuts to use up, as well as what I like to call “fixings” (hemp hearts, chia seeds, etc.), so this recipe worked out well with my let’s-clean-out-my-pantry endeavors! Bonus points for it being portable, which is really helpful when I’m constantly on the run (I jest) move.

This recipe makes two dozen! They’re not quite as coconut-y as my inspiration, but they come pretty darn close!

Apricot Plum Energy Bites

Print Recipe

Apricot Plum Energy Bites

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 5 ingredients + under, easy, healthy, quick

Servings: 24 bites

Ingredients

• 1 cup dried apricots
• 9-10 dried plums
• 1 cup walnuts
• 3 tbsp hemp hearts
• 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes

Instructions

• Combine all ingredients in a high-speed blender or food processor.
• Blend/pulse until ingredients are finely diced and start to stick together.
• Roll into little balls and place in ice tray to chill!

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• If you’re at all a fan of the chocolate + orange combination, you’ll love this 5-ingredient chilled Chocolate Blood Orange Chai recipe that I made! :]
• The weekend before last, I went to Asheville, North Carolina, for the first time! There were lots of adventures to be had, so here’s part 1 (includes my first hostel experience, the River Arts district, and lots of fooding)! Make sure you enter the Balance Bar Fall Medley giveaway that I have going on in that post too!
• Since I packed so many activities in, I had to make a “part 2!” :] We went to a park + I took my second aerial lyra/hoop class ever! (The first one I took was back in early 2012, haha.)

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