Last night was date night. And by date night I mean my 16 year old niece, Ali, and I made homemade Larabars…with dates.
When I read the ingredients list for a Larabar Cashew Cookie bar, I was pleasantly surprised to read they contained: Cashews and dates. That’s it! Real food. And then I thought, surely I can make them since I had the recipe. And I was right. So Ali and I decided to go nuts and go on a…
Double Date
- 2/3 cup Dates
- 1/3 cup Cashews
- 2 T Chocolate Chips
- 1 T Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
Place dates and cashews in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Remove mixture from the food processor, place into a small mixing bowl and add remaining ingredients. With your clean hands form the mixture into a ball and then place between two pieces of plastic wrap. Press mixture into a rectangular shape. Enjoy!
We had so much fun making the first batch of bars so we decided to go…
Nuts About Chocolate
- 1/3 cup Dates
- 1/4 cup Natural Almonds
- 1/4 cup Cocoa Almonds
- 2 T Chocolate Chips
- 2 T Chocolate Protein Powder
- 2 T Water
- 1 T Vanilla Extract
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
Place dates and almonds in a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Remove mixture from the food processor, place into a small mixing bowl and stir in vanilla and cinnamon. In a separate bowl combine protein powder and water and then add to the date/nut mixture. With your clean hands form the mixture into a ball and then place between two pieces of plastic wrap. Press mixture into a rectangular shape. Enjoy!
Ali and I were quite pleased with the results of our homemade snack bars. Not only were they easy to make they tasted fresh and fabulous, too.
Now we really must go grab another snack bar and find another recipe to bring up-to-date.
Miz says:
March 4th 2010I could totally use raisins in place of dates yes?
husband loathes the dates (the food kind :)).
now what could we call it….Raisin SomethingSomething.
Lance says:
March 4th 2010These sound delicious (well…except for the dates….). Esp. the chocolate one (hmmm….maybe I have a chocolate problem!!)
Miz – I would call your variety “Raisin’ the Bar”
Jessica@HowSweet says:
March 4th 2010The nuts over chocolate one sounds delish!
Jess (Fit Chick in the City) says:
March 4th 2010Good looking recipes!
Marisa (Loser For Life) says:
March 4th 2010Those look fabulous! I would go Nuts About the Chocolate one, too!
I made my own Peanut Butter Cookie Larabar a while back and was so surprised how similar it tasted to the original!
Diane Fit to the Finish says:
March 4th 2010What a great idea! And you are right – Larabar’s are real food so it makes sense that we’d be able to make them at home.
Do you think it costs less to make it at home?
Jody - Fit at 52 says:
March 4th 2010YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I love Lance’s name for the Miz bars!
Jamie says:
March 4th 2010This looks soooo yummy! I love dates and prunes because of their sweetness! and lots of fiber!
Anna @ Newlywed, Newly Veg says:
March 4th 2010Yum!!! Sounds like my kind of date night :-)
Heather (Wheres the Beach) says:
March 4th 2010Yum, the Double Date recipe sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Tracy says:
March 4th 2010The possibilites are endless with Lara bars. I make mine with dates, almonds, raisins, dried cherries, dried cranberries………….you could use dried blueberries. I want to try peanuts and dried cherries to see if it tastes like the peanut butter and jelly bar. I love that they are all natural and a great portable snack!
Tracey @ I'm Not Superhuman says:
March 4th 2010I love dates. I just picked up another bag on Monday because they’re like candy. I could eat a million of these bars. YUM.
Andrea@WellnessNotes says:
March 4th 2010What a fun date! :) The bars look and sound great!
Alyson @ Nourished Fitness says:
March 4th 2010Great recipes, they sound delicious (dates really are nature’s candy aren’t they?!). Especially love the incorporation of Protein Powder.. no surprise there :p
april says:
March 4th 2010I used to make the chocolate chip/cashew version all the time before I started blogging.. it was like a cookie!!
Trish @IamSucceeding says:
March 4th 2010These sounds absolutely divine!!
FatFighterTV says:
March 4th 2010You are making me hungry!
cassie @ www.losinginthecity.blogspot.com says:
March 5th 2010i’m not usually a big fan of dates, but this recipe looks delicious..
Lindsay Cotter says:
March 6th 2010Oh yum! I will be trying these for sure!
Melissa says:
March 16th 2010I LOVE cocoa almonds! Pass one of those Nuts About Chocolate bars this way!
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June 9th 2010[...] recipe kind of reminds me of the homemade Larabars Ali and I made a few weeks ago. And it really reminds me of Katie’s raw chocolate cake recipe [...]
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Be simple, be you « eatliveandbehappy says:
January 30th 2011[...] Along the same lines, I think an important part of being yourself is being simple and being real. Which made be think of Larabars which I heard about for the first time the other day. They are both simple and real with ingredients that you can count on one hand and that you have seen before! A book I was reading said that if you can pronounce the names and know what all the ingredients of something are then that probably means it’s pretty natural. Soooo, with this be simple, be you idea I am going to try a larabar and maybe even make my own! [...]