Healthy Date Bars Recipe
Easiest date bars recipe. These healthy date bars are vegan, no bake, gluten free and free of refined sugar. This dessert is the perfect guilt free snack. One of the easiest recipes you can find.
You can take it with you to work or school, post or pre-workout or just serve it as a dessert.
Healthy Date Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 400 g 14oz Medjool dates, pitted
- 180 g 6.3oz walnuts
- 2 tablespoons 30g Natural peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon 13g Coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons 15g Cocoa powder
- ½ cup 45g Desiccated coconut
- 1-2 tablespoons Sesame seeds
- â…› teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
Instructions
- DIRECTIONS1. Prepare 8-inch (20cm) square pan. Line with parchment paper. 2. Place walnuts in the food processor and process for 20-30 seconds, until crumbly. 3. Add pitted dates, cocoa powder, coconut oil, peanut butter, desiccated coconut, vanilla extract and salt. Process until combined and sticky. 4. Turn the mixture out into the prepared pan. Sprinkle some sesame seeds. Use your hands or a spoon to firmly press the mixture into the bottom of the dish. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 5. Remove from the pan and cut into squares or bas.
Hello! I just made the healthy date bars. Easy recipe. The only thing is an 8×8 was almost to big. I ended up using a 6×9.5 which was perfect. Just wanted to pass that along fire whatever. They’re chilling in the fridge now and I can’t wait to try them out! Thanks!
Hey. I am curious how long these stay fresh and how you store them? Thanks!
You can store these bars up to 2 weeks in the fridge.
Wow! These are sooo yummy. Taste like cake but healthy. Great recipe.
These are fantastic. I make a couple of batches each week as my family loves them and they don’t last very long. So easy to make too.
Thank you
Looks a delicious recipe, I look forward to trying them out. I have two questions: 1) what other nuts can be used in place of walnuts? and 2) Do the bars soften quite a bit once out of the fridge? I’d like to use them on long hikes, so am hoping they can not become soft & gooey? Looking forward to hearing from you, thanks!
These are amazing! We make these every week and my family and I eat one daily as a treat. I also bring these biking as a nice mid bike snack. We add 4 figs and 1/2 cup of hemp seeds to the other ingredients. We cannot get enough!
WOW – these are very good. Often when I use dates they dominate the taste profile, not with this recipe. The cocoa and coconut really make the difference IMHO. I just made these, in the fridge, but the bits left over are so good, looking forward to these date bars!
Thanks Robert! Glad you liked it 🙂
I wish I had the cup measurements for the dates and walnuts instead of grams…. Does anyone know the comparison??