These power puffs are so puff-tastic! I highly recommend them. I have never used millet before and I will certainly be using it more often. It’s fluffy, light and has more protein than puffed rice. These little power puffs are a perfect snack with a hot cuppa joe. You can easily cut this recipe in half if you aren’t trying to feed an army.
These are so good that my husband brought them to his Tai Chi class this morning and vanished with a request for more next week…I highly suggest you give these a whirl.
Makes 36-40 Power Puffs
Ingredients
4 cups puffed millet cereal
2/3 cup raisins
2/3 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup peanuts, chopped (or nut of choice)
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter)
1 cup brown rice syrup
1-2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
salt if desired
Directions
1. In a medium bowl, mix cereal, raisins, cranberries, nuts, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds.
2. In a small saucepan, combine peanut butter and brown rice syrup. Cook over low heat for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring occasionally until warm and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal mixture and stir until thoroughly coated.
3. Wait until cooled slightly, the peanut butter mixture can get very hot, then mold into balls (the size of golf balls). Transfer mixture to a cookie sheet to continue cooling.
Tip – it helps to dampen hands, this mix can get very sticky.
Nutrition Facts for 36 Power Puffs: Calories: 112.8, Total Fat: 5.5 g, Total Carbs: 14.5 g, Protein: 2.8 g
mOMent: Do you believe in the soul? What is your soul yearning for today? Is it millet?
I’m entering this recipe here also: http://www.dietdessertndogs.com/2011/07/21/wellness-weekend-july-21-25-2011/
Whoa. Those look awesome. I think I will try to make them and use almond butter.
Hi Renata,
Thanks so much for (trying to!) connect this recipe to the Wellness Weekend–it looks FANTASTIC! I do see that you typed the correct link in the post, but I think the problem is that it’s not a “live” link (ie, it doesn’t take us to the WW page when you click on it).
I think this is a WordPress blog–there should be two rows of symbols above the box in which you write your post when you are composing it on your edit page (the two gray rows below the button you use to link an image). On the row that starts at left with the bold, italic “ABC” buttons, keep going until you see the “link” symbol (like a figure eight; it’s right beside an “unlink” symbol that looks like a figure eight with lines cutting into it). If you just hold your cursor over the “link” button without clicking on it, you’ll see a yellow box that says something like “link/edit image”.
Write the words “Weekend Wellness” in your post wherever you talk about it, then highlight them. Click on that figure 8 button. A box will pop open asking you to type in the URL of the linked page (ie, the URL of the Weekend Wellness page). When you click on “close,” the words you had highlighted will be turned into a “live link” that will take you to my page.
Hope that’s not too confusing! Let me know how it goes and if you still can’t get it to work, I’ll see if I can add it from my end.
Thanks!
OOPS. After all of that, I just noticed that this recipe was posted in March! The recipes have to be within the current week. Sorry!
(But at least now you know how to insert a live link!).
Yummy! We have a local health food store here and they sell gigantic versions of this ball and a chocolate one too! So happy you posted this, they are delicious! Thank You!