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Ingredients
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- 500g deglet dates
- 200g cashews (optional) – you can choose your flavor!
- Dried fruit/cinnamon/flavoring to taste
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Method
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With a bit of elbow grease you too can make your own fresh and tasty raw fruit bar! It’s amazingly simple and tasty and fun.
I heated 500g deglet dates for about a minute with two tablespoons of water to soften them slightly but this wasn’t really necessary. If you have strong arms or a good food processor you can blend them as they are. The goal is to get as smooth a paste as you can. The more you blend it the lighter the colour. You don’t need a food processor to do this but it sure helps! |
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Next choose what you want to go into your bar. In the pictures below I made two varieties; the first was a basic cashew date bar.
You need to cut all your ingredients into whatever size you prefer. I first cut the cashews a bit too large and found they blended better once I had cut them finer. I added about 200g. |
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Smoosh the cashews into the date paste and mix well. Next either press into a large baking tray or if, like me, you don’t have one, sandwich between cling film and roll out to the desired thickness. The first picture is of the date-cashew bar.
For the second half of the mix I added about a tablespoon of cinnamon and a quarter cup of diced dried apple (currently on sale in Tengu but easily made yourself by finely cutting dried apple). The darker colour bar is the cinnamon apple flavour. |
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And there you have it! You’re very own, original fruit bar. If you want a true lara-type-bar then you’ll have to devise a way to dry it out a little as the end bar is a little sticky and probably best kept in the fridge. They are so nice though I’m sure storage won’t be a problem. Enjoy! |
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