Chocolate is the pepper to my salt.
The shish to my kebab. The Sonny to my Cher.
Like can you please pass the salt. And the chocolate.
I’m alllll about the no-bake snacks lately because in case you haven’t noticed, us Columbusians live in a rainforest. A wet, humid rainforest filled with monkeys and toucans. When you live in an eighty-eight degree jungle, you don’t turn the oven on. You turn the food processor on.
I feel like a lot of people don’t have big food proccesors. You all need to get one. It’s probably my most loved kitchen appliance next to my Nutribullet. I use it for everything from making black bean brownies, protein bars and veggie burgers to grinding oats into oat flour. It’s a godsend. While it isn’t that cheap, it isn’t that expensive either. Plus, they’re on sale at Macy’s like every other day so hashtag treatyoself.
You’ll save money on your electric bill too, since you’ll be blending more and oven-ing less. Trust me.
Speaking of salty, I’m a liiiiiiiittle salty that I got a flat tire on Monday. I’m also salty that my iPhone got stolen out of my purse at the bar on Saturday night. It’s insane how naked and lost I feel without my phone. No Instagram?! Is this even real life?? It only seems appropriate that we celebrate my saltiness and recent terrible luck with salted chocolate chia bars, no?
In other news, “Talk Dirty” just came on my Today’s Hits pandora. Can I just say that it makes me a wee bit uncomfy when the girls I babysit belt out this song in the backseat? “I don’t like the words, just the beat.” Right, and your booty don’t need explaining. I mean I feel awkward listening to this song right now and I’m alone.
I’d most definitely talk dirty to these bars, though.
Print
Prep Time:
Yield:
Cuisine:
Print
PinDescription
Packed with nutrient-dense almonds, walnuts, cacao and chia seeds, these no-bake bars are the perfect afternoon snack!
Ingredients
- 1 cup pitted Medjool dates, packed
- 1 cup raw almonds
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- 5 tbsp cacao powder (or cocoa powder)
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 tsp salt (plus more for sprinkling)
- 1 tbsp water (if needed)
Instructions
- Line an 8 x 8in pan with parchment paper or plastic wrap and set aside.
- Place all ingredients in a large food proccesor and process for a couple minutes or until the “dough” forms a ball. If it’s too crumbly, add 1 tbsp water. You want the nuts in small pieces, so you may need to move everything around with a fork and keep blending.
- Remove dough from food processor and press into lined pan until smooth and even. Sprinkle lightly with salt.
- Freeze for at least two hours before cutting into 8-10 bars.
- Store bars in fridge or freezer.
I recently started following your blog and absolutely love it. My question is, do you ever put nutritional information with your recipes such as calories, carb count, fat and sugar? This recipe sounds amazing! Thanks
Awww thanks so much, Jody! I don’t do nutritional information because I want people focusing on whole, real foods rather than calories. Feel free to enter the info into sparkrecipes.com for the nutritional info!
I love all your no-bake treats and really must give them a whirl in the ol’ processing unit! Salted chocolate? Lemme at ’em!!! Hope you had a great weekend, lady!
★★★★★
Thanks, lovely! I know you’d be totes in love with these gems.
I love all your no-bake treats and really must give them a whirl in the ol’ processing unit! Salted chocolate? Lemme at ’em!!! Hope you had a great weekend, lady!
★★★★★
Thanks, lovely! I know you’d be totes in love with these gems.
These are definitely a must-make especially as it’s roasting hot where I live too! I’m trying to avoid the oven. Food processors are the best!
Screw the oven, right!?
These are definitely a must-make especially as it’s roasting hot where I live too! I’m trying to avoid the oven. Food processors are the best!
Screw the oven, right!?
So I live up here in cold-*ss Canada, and even I can’t remember the last time I turned on the oven. I use my blender for everythinggggggg, and if I need to bake some bars, then I use my little toaster oven that just so happens to be big enough to fir an 8×8 pan 😉
Ohh I feel ya. I mean my nutribullet seriously runs my life. Yay for the toaster oven!!!
So I live up here in cold-*ss Canada, and even I can’t remember the last time I turned on the oven. I use my blender for everythinggggggg, and if I need to bake some bars, then I use my little toaster oven that just so happens to be big enough to fir an 8×8 pan 😉
Ohh I feel ya. I mean my nutribullet seriously runs my life. Yay for the toaster oven!!!
Sooo sorry to hear bout your flat tire and your iphone! Any chance of getting it back? Almost the same thing happened to my daughter – only it wasn’t at a bar 🙂 – it was at church – and she didn’t technically have it stolen but more like misplaced – but alls well as she got it back!
These bars sound ridiculously delish – now I need to get my self to a May’s to score an-on-sale-food processor!!
Probably not 🙁 Glad your daughter got hers back, though!!!
Sooo sorry to hear bout your flat tire and your iphone! Any chance of getting it back? Almost the same thing happened to my daughter – only it wasn’t at a bar 🙂 – it was at church – and she didn’t technically have it stolen but more like misplaced – but alls well as she got it back!
These bars sound ridiculously delish – now I need to get my self to a May’s to score an-on-sale-food processor!!
Probably not 🙁 Glad your daughter got hers back, though!!!
Ooooh…yay, I was waiting for this recipe! It looks amazing!!!
Total bummer about your flat tire and your Iphone! That just totally stinks! People are really awful sometimes!
People should be nicer, for realz. 🙁 Enjoy the bars!
Ooooh…yay, I was waiting for this recipe! It looks amazing!!!
Total bummer about your flat tire and your Iphone! That just totally stinks! People are really awful sometimes!
People should be nicer, for realz. 🙁 Enjoy the bars!
bahaha we are twinning….I have a no bake bar recipe for tomorrow and I lament about the lack of food processor.
Does this mean I’m the Tahini to your….chickpea?
Your bars look unreal. What a great option for those unfortunate souls that are food processorless!
bahaha we are twinning….I have a no bake bar recipe for tomorrow and I lament about the lack of food processor.
Does this mean I’m the Tahini to your….chickpea?
Your bars look unreal. What a great option for those unfortunate souls that are food processorless!
Ahhh no- that SUCKS about your iPhone…sorry-o! Hope it was backed up! Good thing you got some delicious bars to drown your sorrows in ;)!
Drowning my sorrows in bars over hereeeee!!!
Ahhh no- that SUCKS about your iPhone…sorry-o! Hope it was backed up! Good thing you got some delicious bars to drown your sorrows in ;)!
Drowning my sorrows in bars over hereeeee!!!