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Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
• 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
• 4 T cocoa powder
• 1 T ground flaxseed
• 1 cup natural peanut butter (or any nut butter)
• 1/2 cup raw cinnamon honey [or regular raw honey (+ cinnamon if you please)]
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 2 t vanilla extract

Method:

1. Take a 2-cup glass measuring cup, and fill it with coconut oil, melting it slightly in the microwave, until you reach the 1/2 cup mark. Add honey until you reach the 1 cup mark. Add peanut butter until you reach the 2 cup mark.
2. Pour this mixture into a medium pot on medium heat, and stir until well combined.
3. Meanwhile, mix the oats, coconut flakes, cocoa powder and flaxseed.
4. Take the pot off of the stove and add the dry ingredients and the vanilla. Stir until combined.
5. Drop heaping tablespoons of the mixture onto a cookie sheet lined with a silpat or equivalent.
6. Freeze for 15 minutes, and then remove from cookie sheet, and store in a tupperware container in the freezer.
7. You can eat them right out of the freezer, or let them thaw for 10 minutes before serving.

Feel free to make substitutions to suit your tastes/what you have on hand. It would be hard to screw these up!

Adapted from Dr. Axe