I’m such a cheater. Or a copy cat. However you’d like to view me. I kinda made this recipe based off my No-Bake Sticky Apple Bars. But those bars were delicious so why not try them with a different kind of fruit. THANK GOD I DID. These were delicious. Laura didn’t seem to love them as much as I did, but Sergio looked like he had just won the lottery when he tasted one…and then went on to eat half the batch.
I went out on the town this weekend. It was Sergio’s birthday AND we had to celebrate Regionals being over with, so we needed to go hard. That meant I drank alcoholic beverages. And many of them. I felt like it was time. I don’t really even remember the last time I drank. Pretty much because I don’t really like alcohol. It tastes like nail polish remover. But I was able to go out with some wicked cool CrossFitters who I never see outside of there workout persona…and workout clothes, so that was a blast. I have really good looking friends. NBD. AND I got to get my flirt on. WINNING.
We went to a bar that was all about dancing. So you can imagine the smile I had on my face. Especially since they were playing Beyonce when I walked in. My God I love Beyonce. AND THEN I got to dance with this man, who doesn’t seem like women are his main squeeze, and the dancing was pretty wicked awesome. He was amazing. I flailed around like an idiot (intoxication makes you feel like a better dancer. fact.) and did whatever he told me to do. He literally would tell me what dance move I should do next. It was awesome. My tiny inebriated brain didn’t even have to think while I was dancing. Wicked.
I don’t really like alcohol. Even though I didn’t have a hangover, I felt like everything was moving in slow motion yesterday. How do some of you people out there drink every weekend? It’s exhausting. I’d much rather sit in on a Friday or Saturday night and make paleo desserts, like this one.
BTW, I finally got instagram. I’m not sure what I’m doing and my pictures suck ass, BUT I LOVE IT. I’m trying to be the best instagramer I can be! Wanna follow me?! Please please do! I take lots of pictures of food that looks like dog food. Super delish. Find me @paleomg! Kthanksbye.
No Bake Sticky Berry Bars
- Yield: 5 1x
Ingredients
Crust
- 12 medjool dates, pits removed
- 1 cup cashews
- 2 tablespoons almond butter
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
For the toppings
- 6–8 oz blackberries
- 6–8 oz blueberries
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut butter
- sprinkle of cinnamon
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- First make your crust. Add all ingredients for the crust to a food processor.
- Put crust ingredients in an bread pan, press down until evenly distributed.
- Now heat up a small saucepan under medium heat. Add your blackberries and blueberries, along with your maple syrup.Be sure to continuously stir so the mixture doesn’t stick to the bottom or burn.
- Once you have almost a runny jam, add your melted/softened coconut butter along with cinnamon and salt.
- When all ingredients are incorporated, pour mixture on top of crust and press flat. Put in the fridge to harden for 30-45 minutes.
- Cut into squares and serve!!
Notes
I could have eaten the whole batch so how am I suppose to know how many people it serves?
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Making these this weekend to take my own bridal shower so I can stay paleo… So excited!
so seeing this recipe reminded me to make the gooey apple bars (i have a lot of your recipes i need to try, but have not gotten the chance). turns out an 8×8 pan makes for VERY thick crust and not a whole lot of apple. after eating a few pieces, i ended up eating the apple off the top (very yummy). i spread out the remainder of the crust in the 8×8 pan and topped it with a chocolate sauce (adapted from http://www.unconventionalkitchen.com/raw-almond-joys):
3/4 C coconut oil
1/2 C cocoa powder
1 T vanilla
1/4 C honey
after a morning in the fridge, i sampled: these are off the hook! perfect combination of sweet nutty coconut with hardened dark chocolate topping. you gotta try it!!
Do you need the syrup? What will leaving it out do to the fruit topper?
it should be fine without it, it just won’t be quite as sweet
Erm juli? Some of us up here in canadia don’t understand this ‘ounces’ business. Yep. It’s called metric. I guesstimated. Anyway I’m really just writing on here because I just slid the darn things in the fridge and I needed to do something to distract me from thinking about eating them.
If the berry concoction was any indication if the delicious factor my girl crush on you has increased at least twofold. Don’t worry, I’m totally harmless and really into men.
Okay I’ve now made these twice. Frig. Delicious.
I just made these last night for my five-year-old to take to school for “bring a healthy snack to share” day! She’s thrilled because they are PURPLE! It’s about the fifth or sixth recipe of your’s that I’ve tried since finding you about two weeks ago, and I have loved all of them. I’ll let you know how the preschool set likes the bars…
About how many cups is 12 dates? I made some date paste recently that I need to use up, and have blueberries I’ve been waiting to use too, so this is a great recipe, but not sure how much of the date paste I should use. And is this raw cashews?
probably less than 1/4 cup? totally guessing!
Just made these and I am concerned they are not hardening… I saw some posts about adding more coconut cream concentrate… obviously too late now… but, I really want to make this recipe work – – to all those that got it to work/harden – exactly how much coconut cream concentrate did you really use? I def used more than 1/4 cup as I was concerned from the beginning – so I may have used 1/3 of a cup – but, still not enough?
Thanks Juli! These were a huge hit, my family loved them. The pan is half gone and they just got done cooling.
Juli! I FINALLY made these… the only thing that I would do different next time is.. maybe not share… just saying! These were amazing!! YUM! Thank you again for another GREAT recipe!
Just threw these in the fridge…I’m trying them out in muffin tins because that seems easier to transport (assuming they make it out of the kitchen at all).