If you like chocolate crunch bars, these healthy Chocolate Quinoa Crisps will be your new best friend! They’re vegan, no bake, and SO FUN to eat!
Summer is peak time for no-bake treats. It’s hot. It’s sweaty. People are avoiding their ovens and their kitchens like the plague. I get it.
But I want cookies. What’s a girl to do when she just wants some damn cookies? Dun dun da daaa I made no bake cookies. By now you guys know alll about my no bake treat obsession. Bars to balls to cups to freezer fudge. GIRL, the list goes onnnn.
So if you’re like me and need a chocolatey treat… like all every day… then I have the recipe for you! GUYS. Chocolate Quinoa Crisps. Learn it. Live it. Love it. These will be a fast favorite among kids and adults alike.
If you like chocolate crunch bars. If you like rice krispie treats. If you like easy desserts that basically make themselves, you will LOVE these Chocolate Quinoa Crisps!
FIVE ingredients you’ll need for this recipe are: 1) Puffed quinoa. The one I was buying from amazon has stopped selling it. So I now buy it HERE and have been really happy with it. 2) Agave nectar. This keeps it low glycemic, but if you don’t care too much about glycemic index, you can swap in honey or maple syrup. 3) Vanilla extract. Nothing really else to say about it. 4) Refined coconut oil. I like refined because it doesn’t have as much as a coconutty flavor, but any coconut oil works! 5) Cocoa powder or cacao powder, whichever you prefer.
In your bowl, whisk together the coconut oil, agave nectar, vanilla, and cocoa powder until smooth. Fold in the puffed quinoa.
Use a cookie scooper to scoop about 8 mounds on a lined baking sheet. Use your fingers to gently press the tops to flatten them out. Pop in the fridge or freezer for 1 hour until harden. Transfer to a bag or container and store in the fridge until you’re ready to eat!
Aaand that’s it! It makes about 12 cookies!!
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If you like chocolate crunch bars, these healthy Chocolate Quinoa Crisps will be your new best friend! They’re vegan, no bake, and SO FUN to eat!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup refined coconut oil, melted
- 1/4 cup agave nectar
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup puffed quinoa
Instructions
- In your bowl, whisk together the coconut oil, agave nectar, cocoa powder, and vanilla until smooth.
- Fold in the puffed quinoa.
- Use a cookie scooper to scoop about 8 mounds on a lined baking sheet.
- Use your fingers to gently press the tops to flatten them out.
- Pop in the fridge or freezer for 1 hour until harden.
- Transfer to a bag or container and store in the fridge until you’re ready to eat!
Enjoy!! xo
Where do you get puffed quinoa I have been searching for a couple of years and not one store has any ice what I’m talking about and I live iN NY and have access to a lot of food
Hi Kim!!
I know, it’s hard to come by! I buy it online, here are two places I’ve found to have good crispy, puffed quinoa:
https://amzn.to/2MJHVaz
https://nuts.com/cookingbaking/grains/quinoa/puffs.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlK7cBRCnARIsAJiE3MhBpQtX-r3dypbVSmAciN8-DL34u-HtOOlAjaskCPZdOfqQA4wYCMwaAuUZEALw_wcB
Hope you love them!! xo
These look delicious Lindsay!
I’m totally making these like ASAP!
I have a question that may sound kind of silly but the quinoa is uncooked straight from the package right??
Thanks for sharing!
★★★★★
Hi Wendy!!
You buy the quinoa puffed, so I think it’s cooked. I’ve never successfully been able to puff my own quinoa. Here are two places that I’ve found puffed/crispy quinoa:
https://amzn.to/2MJHVaz
https://nuts.com/cookingbaking/grains/quinoa/puffs.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwlK7cBRCnARIsAJiE3MhBpQtX-r3dypbVSmAciN8-DL34u-HtOOlAjaskCPZdOfqQA4wYCMwaAuUZEALw_wcB
Enjoy!! xo
This looks beautifully delicious! My question is that it looks like it’s dipped in chocolate on the bottom since the chocolate looks solid and flat under the crisp. Is that just how it shapes?
Hi Samantha!
The flat part is just how the chocolate forms! You don’t don’t have to do any extra work, they just take on that shape 🙂 Hope you love them!!
These look fabulous and I’ve ordered puffed quinoa just to make them. Question though; I have liquid coconut oil. Will that work or do I need the solid form?
Hi Elsa! You want to use the one that is solid and melt it for the recipe. The nature of the cookies – they start kinda liquid-y and then they harden up when you chill them. The store-bought liquid coconut oil stays liquid even when chilled I think so it won’t work for this recipe. Hope you love them!! xo