German Chocolate Bars

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

We had these over the weekend while hiking up at Rainier :-) A delicious raw treat.

Out with all my boys…my oldest is looking more like a man than a kid these days. Eek.

German Chocolate Bars

Ingredients:

1½ cups Medjool dates, pitted
½ cup raw pecans
¼ cup Unsweetend Coconut Flakes
¼ cup Navitas Naturals Cacao Nibs Sweetened
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Pinch of fine sea salt
Directions:

Add everything to a food processor, process on high until finely chopped and it starts coming together in a ball. Line a bread pan with plastic wrap, pack the mixture in, flattening. Chill for a couple of hours, slice and wrap each bar. Keep refrigerated until trail time.

~Sarah
http://blog.trailcooking.com/2012/07/22/raw-recipe-german-chocolate-bars/

[Paul Magnanti]

From a care package courtesy of my soon-to-be mother-in-law

Think she likes me for some reason. :D

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

That looks reaaaaallllyyyy good!

[Mary D]

I'm drooling!

[Diane Pinkers]

Dang it, I've got all the ingredients except the nibs! Maybe I'll just substitute chocolate chips to chop up?

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

Diane,
That would work perfectly – no worries! :-)

[BlackHatGuy]

This is a fun recipe. And quite tasty too! Made the first batch as above, except I couldn't find sweetened nibs, so I used regular raw ones and added a bit of honey to the recipe.

For the next batch, I really had fun. I used 1 cup of the dates and 1/2 cup dried turkish apricots. I added 1/4 cup freeze-dried organic blueberries. And then I made the coconut butter filling from the raw oreo recipe, pressed this recipe into an 11×7 pan, spread the raw oreo filling on half, folded the other half over and pressed together. These things are fricking tasty!

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

OMG. You inspire me ;-)

[Mary D]

Those sound really good, Doug! I'd rather have the dried apricots than the dates–I'm sure they add a lot to the flavor! The dried apricot and chocolate combo is great, IMHO!

[Diane “Piper” Soini]

I don't like chocolate with dates but those bars look really good and would probably work great without chocolate.

[Tad Englund]

Sarah, where can I get the "Medjool dates" locally- Issaquah?

I need to try some- I normally would turn my nose up at eating dates so I need to experiment (try) a couple. Can I get them in bulk? For me that means 1 or 2. If they can make it past my tongue I'll buy more.
Thanks,
Tad

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

Tad, head over to PCC :-)
Costco has them in 2 lb boxes……

Just be sure to pit them!!

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