Recipe Directions
1. Pour first 9 ingredients in a food processor with the S-Blade attached and mix.
2. While the food processor is running, add water and then agave nectar.
3. Leave the food processor running until mixture is smooth (won’t be wet) and starts to ball up. Stop the food processor before the mixture balls up completely to avoid the mixture becoming too fine of a texture. It should be smooth but with chunks of nuts, cranberries and raisins.
4. Remove mixture from food processor and press into a square or round glass or plastic dish.
5. Spread cashew-macadamia butter on top of the pressed mixture.
6. Freeze until firm, but not frozen (about 45-60 minutes), and then slice length-wise.
Jirizarry's Thoughts
By jirizarry It is sweet, but not too sweet. The maca powder gives it a creamy flavor.
It is a chewy but crunchy firm mixture for bars that does not have to be dehydrated, which is an advantage for those who still do not have a dehydrator yet or do want something quick.
It took me about 15 minutes to have it ready.
My husband finds this to be a perfect food for him to have after working out intensively. First, he has a shake, and then one or two bars.
It keeps refrigerated up to 3 days or frozen for about a month.
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fuzzywater
Dec 25, 2009
This looks GREAT! Might be just what I need.... tired of buying raw bars to take with me when I'm going to be out all day. Will definitely be trying this soon!
fuzzywater
Dec 26, 2009
Made these yesterday and let them set in the fridge overnight; just pulled one out to taste it and YUM! The description is bang-on right: chewy, crunchy, sweet but not overly sweet, quick.... I have to admit to a few modifications based on ingredients I did/did not have at the time: I swapped out the cranberries for goji berries and I didn't have any mesquite, lucuma or psyllium. Oh well, they still turned out FABULOUS! I love the very thing layer of cashew-macadamia nut butter on top. The bars are just a big hit, every which way. *Very* highly recommended! Thank you!!!
Zoe
Dec 25, 2009
i'm also going to call raisins raisings from now on! it is an improvement :)
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rawfoodies
Jul 16, 2011
rawfoodies's Review
Cranberry-Raisin Crunchy Bars
These are really very good!
I used goji berries instead, since I had no cranberries. Also, due to not having any on hand, I did not use Lucama nor top with Cashew-macadamia butter. No pysllium either.
I'm glad I found something my kids like too. Thanks for the recipe!!
jirizarry
Jan 13, 2010
Thank you. I still have some goji berries in stock and it never ocurred to me trying them out with them. I assume they have to be soaked first, right? Just out of curiosity, if you did not use psyllium, which is the key ingredient to get them hard once cooled down at room temperature, what did you use and how in terms of consistency did they turned out. thanks.
fuzzywater
Dec 26, 2009
Made these yesterday and let them set in the fridge overnight; just pulled one out to taste it and YUM! The description is bang-on right: chewy, crunchy, sweet but not overly sweet, quick.... I have to admit to a few modifications based on ingredients I did/did not have at the time: I swapped out the cranberries for goji berries and I didn't have any mesquite, lucuma or psyllium. Oh well, they still turned out FABULOUS! I love the very thing layer of cashew-macadamia nut butter on top. The bars are just a big hit, every which way. *Very* highly recommended! Thank you!!!
jirizarry
Dec 26, 2009
for maca powder: http://www.acne-advice.com/products/superfoods/maca/index.shtml
for lucuma powder: http://livesuperfoods.com/LSF018.html
for mesquite powder: http://www.essentiallivingfoods.com/products-functional-food-algorroba.html
envirogenny
Dec 25, 2009
What is: maca powder, lucuma powder and mesquite powder?
Zoe
Dec 25, 2009
i'm also going to call raisins raisings from now on! it is an improvement :)
fuzzywater
Dec 25, 2009
This looks GREAT! Might be just what I need.... tired of buying raw bars to take with me when I'm going to be out all day. Will definitely be trying this soon!
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