No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Larabars
This recipe is totally cribbed from My Whole Food Life but I thought I would repeat it here. Since Larabars don’t put anything goofy in their stuff, replicating them at home is easy to do.
Like the Primal Energy Bites recipe I posted a while back, these are a perfect dessert if you’re trying to do low- or no-simple-carbs type of diet. Vegan dorks can easily find a de-animalized substitute for the chocolate chips, or preferably just stop being vegan altogether.
| 15 | dates (pitted, non-sulfur) |
| 2 cups | raw cashews* |
| 1/4 cup | dark chocolate mini-chips** |
| 1/2 tsp | salt |
| 1 tblsp | cruelty-free, free-range water |
- Chop up the cashews in a food processor.
- Add everything else but the chips and continue to pulse until it gets doughy.
- Spread the dough, flat and even, on an 8 x 8, parchment paper-lined pan. Leave some extra parchment on the sides so you’ll be able to grab it later. Press down on the dough to make it flat.
- Add the chip on top, pressing them in so they stick.
- Let it refrigerate for a few hours (wifey put them in the freezer for a bit…worked fine).
- You can pull the sheet of dough out by the extra parchment paper and use a pizza cutter to make bars or squares.
Here’s some sub-standard food photography:
* Roasted cashews can be used but they are usually cooked with oil, and it will make everything kinda greasy.
** The ones photographed here are normal size.
2 Comments
If I were an abortion doctor who had just read Matt Walsh’s blog, I would probably eat homemade Lara bars at the office the next day too.
Seriously, this is a great idea and I think I will try it. Any stab at a cost comparison, based on purchase price of ingredients / # of bars??? Curious to know….
Just asked wifey since she did the shopping and she thinks it should come out to a little cheaper per serving. The dates and cashews are the most expensive, so if you can get those in bulk you’ll get far ahead in terms of cost.