Homemade Larabars!

Last year we went paleo for a month and discovered that we love Larabars! Then we started making up our own recipes for homemade Larabars that are SO good!  There are a bunch of recipes on the internet but this is what we came up with...

Bar Base:
•10-12 pitted dates (if using already chopped kind, add 1  1/2 cups)
•1/2 cup dry oats
•1 tablespoon coconut oil (you can omit this if you want, but it makes it a lot sweeter and helps it stick   together better)
1 cup of nuts ( almonds, cashews, peanuts, or a combination)
•optional: 1/2 tsp of vanilla, a shake of salt :)



-after adding these ingredients you can add more nuts if you want it to be crunchy.   Blend the first three (or 5) ingredients up in a food processor and grind very well before you add the other ingredients. Add whatever combo of ingredients you want after that. The texture should be more like cookie dough than peanut butter, but it depends on what you prefer.  Once processed, press into a square Pyrex dish and put in the refrigerator for just a few minutes.  Enjoy!


Here are some of our favorite mix-ins: 

For chocolate: add 1/4 cup of cocoa and 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips

For peanut butter and jelly: use 1 cup of peanuts and 1/4 of dried cranberries, or freeze dried strawberries (whatever you have on hand, it doesn't really matter if you use dried or freeze dried)

For banana bread: add half of a mashed banana and a few walnuts

For cinnamon roll: add cinnamon and a stevia packet

For blueberry muffin: add dried blueberries or currants and a little cinnamon

Today for ours we added almonds, green superfood powder, currants, whole ground flax meal, freeze dried strawberries, and peanuts!

You want the texture to be more like cookie dough rather than peanut butter, but it depends on what you prefer.  Don't process too long!


-Isabel :)