Janet' Copycat Larabars (raw Food)

Total Time: 5 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 hrs Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups pitted dates, separated
• 1 1/2 cups cashews, soaked for two hours separated
• 1 1/2 cups walnuts, soaked for two hours separated
• 2 tablespoons flax seeds
• 1/2 cup shredded coconut
• 1/2 cup dried cherries
• 1/2 cup oatmeal
• 1/3 cup chopped dried apricot
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 equipment: food processor or blender, cutting board and chopping knife, 2 medium sized bowls, measuring cup and spoons, waxed paper or parchment paper.
• 2 soak nuts for two to three hours.
• 3 put 1 cup of dates, 1 cup of cashews and 1 cup of walnuts into a bowl and mix them together.
• 4 chop and grind them in your food processor in batches. get the mixture to a meal like consistency and return to bowl.
• 5 on your cutting board coarsely chop the remaining nuts and add to the bowl.
• 6 in the food processor, grind your remaining one cup of pitted dates to a paste; add to the bowl.
• 7 add flax and hemp seeds to bowl with nuts and dates and mix together well.
• 8 divide date/ nut mixture equally into two bowls.
• 9 into one bowl mix your shredded coconut and dried cherries. if you are using un-sweetened coconut, you may want to add some maple syrup or agave nectar, one tablespoon at a time, to your taste.
• 10 add the remaining three ingredients to the other bowl and mix well.
• 11 turn each mixture out onto a longish piece of waxed paper and form into a long rectangle about four inches wide and 1/2 inch thick.
• 12 wrap up in the waxed paper and refrigerate four a couple of hours before cutting off your first bar.