Hot Fudge Brownie Larabars

I want to eat these right now! And I kind of want to cover them in peanut butter!

Haha, OMG you did get a ton of comments on that post – but for real, it IS the best giveaway ever! 😉 I like the peanut butter cookie Larabars.

they even look like larabars but BIGGER.

NOM!

Just so you know, you are the sole reason I was inspired to try the Chocolate Larabar when I went to the grocery store yesterday, and it was DELICIOUS! I usually go for the mixed fruit & nut flavor, the coconut, and on occasion the peanut butter and jelly, but now i’ll have to add chocolate to my list of Larabar flavors!
I will have to try making these as soon as I finish my giant stash of larabars!

Have you ever tried BumbleBars by the way? They have a lot of seeds and nuts in them, but they are really delicious and 100% vegan! I really like them because they taste like honey & nuts even though they are actually made with brown rice syrup and ZERO honey so they’re vegan but still satisfy my honey craving.

I have never had a store bought Larabar BUT I have made my own from other peoples recipes…. LOVE them! I just love how I can mix and match, do my own thing when I make my own! ….Thanks for sharing the recipe! Can’t wait to try it!!!!! 🙂

I have only tried a few of the flavors, but the PB & J Larabar is pretty delicious! Once i tried this flavor, I tend to gravitate toward it each time I’m buying one. No chocolate…but it tastes like a pb & j sandwich! so good.

Looks great, Katie!! I love the chocolate peanut butter ones. Because–what is there not to love? My favorite, though, is still ginger snap. An oldie but a goodie 😀

u shud send them your recipe!!!!>. I LOVEEE ginger snap, banana bread, choc cookie dough.. basically ALL THE FLAVAS!

Have you ever tried any other “sticky ingredient” besides dates? I always see dates but wondered for variety if there is anything else that can be used.

First of all, yes you’re absolutely right that homemade is better, and not to mention much cheaper and super easy to make! Interestingly, even though I LOVE chocolate, I’m not a huge fan of the Jocolats. And, while I abhor cherry or lemon desserts, (lemon meringue, cherry pie, etc.) my favorite Lara bar flavors are cherry pie and both the lemon and key lime flavors. Coconut follows close behind. I’m fairly certain tho, that it all comes down to the ingredients used. Lara bars use actual real dried cherries, and real lemon and lime juice, while I really don’t even want to know what kind of scary faux additives and ingredients are used to make those traditional cherry and lemon flavored desserts (that I’ve stayed away from since I was a kid).

Chocolate chip cookie dough is my FAVORITE! I have one for dessert 3-4 nights a week. Cashew cookie and coconut cream pie are next in line. My husband loves the chocolate brownie so I think I’ll have to give this recipe a whirl. Looks delish!

Mint chocolate or cinnamon roll!

Another CCK recipe I have to try! Woo hoo!

It’s so funny you would post this, because I just found your site through the giveaway you’re hosting, and as soon as I read about your homemade Larabars I went out and tried them for myself.
It was a hard decision, but I finally went with the Samoas Larabars because those were my favorite girl scout cookies. Oh dear, were they ever good! So good that I think the next time those girl scouts come to my door I will tell them “No thanks, I can make my own!” 😉 No, of course they didn’t have the texture of the samoas, but I actually liked the larabar form of the cookie even better. It was soft and chewy and yet tasted like a samoa. Win!!!

I’ve actually never tried a Larabar..but I’d much rather make these anyway!

CHOCOLATE LARABARS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Katie, you are the BEST!!!! Oh my gosh. Girl, you are so amazing.

I love the recipes on your blog! And this is especially wonderful since I’ve been looking for “work snack” ideas that I can make at home that save money. This is totally perfect!

Oh yes I have! 🙂 I enjoy peanut butter and chocolate chip…but I would take any!

Happy Friday!

I’m determined to make these! They look amazing!! 🙂

I don’t really like the Jocalats, but I think I might like these because they’re more customizable. My favorite larabar flavor is probably the lemon or anything with peanut butter in it!

I’ve never like Jocolats because they’ve never tasted truly chocolate-y to me. Why didn’t I ever think of making my own and adding more coco, particularly considering how many other larabar-esque treats I’ve made?!

Mmm I’ve actually only tried a few larabaras, but I’ve liked every one.

I’ve never tried a Jocolat, but that may change soon 🙂

Which do you like better, homemade or Jocolat?

Yummii! These sounds good! The recipe is so close to the one I use for raw brownies, and they are insane! So I know I would love these too 🙂

I recently tried my own variation of a larabar and they came out wonderful!

http://ohshineon.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/im-lazy/

but this recipe also looks great, and so simple. i’ll be sure to test these ones out

I just made these and I really like them a lot! But I must say that I made a few changes: because I didn’t have enough dates, I subbed most of them with dried apricots and I used a mix of nuts (mostly almonds) instead of walnuts only. The apricot and chocolate go really well together 😀
Have you ever tried subbing apricots (or other fruit) for the dates? I gives the bars another flavour (all the new possibilities!) and I think the taste was softer too.

Btw: For breakfast I had your double chocolate brownie batter pancakes, my favourite flavour until now. Again, the chocolate worked very well with the apricot jam I put on top.

I don’t like ANY of the fruit flavored Larabars, but my favorites are the chocolate chip cookie dough, chocolate brownie nut, and peanut butter chocolate chip ones! I also like the plain chocolate and coffee chocolate Jocalat bars… mmmmmm! 🙂 These sound delicious, I am making some tonight!!! I think I’m going to add some peanut butter to the mix too!

I made these a few days ago for my boyfriend to take out on the boat with him. He loved them and said they were better than store-bought. They are a great snack to take when we are working and need something that is quick and easy to scarf down. Thanks for the recipe!

These really do taste like fudge~ 🙂 I still have 2 bars left, I’ll probably just eat it all tomorrow ^^

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Cashew Cookie!!!!

Just had to give you feedback for these! Made them with almonds because I didn’t have any walnuts. At first, they were too dry to form, so I followed advice from the commenters and added some sultanas (raisins) and then they were perfect! The base recipe plus the extra sultanas made 13 small bars and a taste – DELICIOUS! While they’re a bit too energy-dense for every day snacks, they will be absolutely perfect for sticking in the back of my cycling jersey for endurance rides. So much cheaper than store-bought energy bars and without the ‘partially hydrogenated’ trans fats nasties that I’m not allowed to eat. Thank you so much, Katie – incredible!

Okay, I burned out the motor on my little tiny Cuisinart trying to make these, but I saved the not-quite-blended mixture and used it all as an excuse to buy a big Cuisinart and finish the job. And I got it on an amazing sale. Nice! But now, although it tastes INCREDIBLE, I can’t get the mixture to stick together long enough to pick up any sizable piece up to put it in my mouth. I think it’s probably because I used dates that were already chopped up and consequently too dry already. Can you offer a solution at this point? Can I add something to increase the stickiness while keeping the taste the same? Should I just add a little water?

So, so, so, heavenly! These bars are every bit as chocolatey and fudgy as the name suggests! I will be making numerous batches of them!

OMG KATIE. BROWNIE LARABARS AND SAMOA LARABARS HAVE REPRODUCED IN MY KITCHEN. See it all started when I had this wonderful fresh coconut sitting on my countertop. I couldn’t decide which flavor larabar to make so I thought “why not both?” so I subbed half the walnuts with shredded fresh coconut, added a pinch of cinnamon (it really brings out the chocolate!) and followed the rest of the brownie larabar recipe. Oh. My. GOD. They are orgasmic (is that even a word?). Fabulous!

I made your delicious HFB Larabars! One problem I had was with forming the bars. Mine fell apart easily. When I blended them they seemed to dry to be able to form so I added a bit more vanilla. They still aren’t a firm bar. Any ideas?

They taste incredible btw. My own little healthy candy bar!

Can you freeze the Larabars???

Hye Katie..!! i found your website a few moths back and i told myself i should have found your website a loooooonnnnggg time ago..i am a chocolate lover plus health-concious kind a person, so while eating chocolate, i don’t want to be covered with guilty..if u know what i mean..hahahaah..and thank god i found your website and it such a joy trying all of your recipe..love it.. 🙂

I just whipped up a batch of these. This is the first recipe I’ve made from your blog. Very easy to throw together and it tasted great! This coming from a totally non-healthy trying to do better eater. If the rest of your recipes are as good as this then I can do it! I have your Key Lime Pie tarts in the fridge right now. Hubby will be the judge of that one. Not telling him it has tofu in it.

For all your recipes that call for dates, can I sub raisins and still get similar results?

Less? hmm.. I was just in Honduras (on a cruise, not doing something noble like mission work) and I purchased some organic chocolate and cacoa bars… maybe I’ll melt a little in to combat the dryness I’m assuming the hemp powder will bring to it. This way I don’t have to sacrifice any of the delicious chocolate taste. Side note- my friends always tell me I should start a blog, to talk about clean eating and share recipes. My response is: what’s the point I would simply just have a page with links to chocolate covered Katie (with clean substitutions when necessary) this one didn’t need any at all. Needless to say 5 of my facebook friends got a link to the fudge babies on their wall at 8am this morning with the caption “MAKE THESE! (if you don’t like them, I’ll eat them)” Spreading the CCK love around the East Coast!

they all are.

Now, for the entry to win the Vit-A-Mix, where do we leave our comment? Here on this post? Or do we just have to put 3 comments on Facebook?

I have been wanting to try these for a while. They are way better than the Lara bars from the store.

Hi there.
These are delishhhhhh. But I have a problem. Its to dry and powdery. They won’t bind and form into a bar. Did I put to much Cacao powder? What do I do? Add more vanilla ext? I tried forming them in a baggie but they still kinda fell apart. Helppp! 🙂

Founds your page while searching how to make Larabars. I quickly made your chocolate fudge ones (had all the ingredients) and all I can say is WOW!!! Definitely be making more in the future.

OMG these taste like the (gross, over-processed, preservative-packed, but so yummy) Cosmic Brownies that I ate as a kid! I was craving some chocolate, but refuse to turn on my oven since the temp outside is over 100. I made a half-batch of this in my bullet blender and it turned out fine, even using the drier chopped dates! It took some serious squishing in a ziploc bag to get it to stick together, but it was worth the effort. Going for seconds now!

I just made these these!
I used 1/2 Sunflower seeds and 1/2 Almonds, they were hard to shape into bars so I added 1/2 a banana like I read in the comments and they shaped up well! I shaped them in a small sandwich bag. I haven’t eaten one yet but I KNOW they will taste amazing.
I already made your healthy chocolate chip cookies, confutti balls, and some other stuff! I made a huge assorted platter for tomorrow morning for my family.
They already sampled some and they LOVE them! and my family are cheap eating, meat eating, 3 cups of sugar in cereal eating people! hahaha <3
You are so talented!

Hey! Do you have the nutrition info on these bars handy? They look awesome but I’m curious about the protein/calorie counts. Many thanks!

I have made these several times and LOVE them. They are so easy to make and very versatile. I store them in the refrigerator in individual baggies to keep them fresh and “at the ready”. The recipe is very simple but the flavor is awesome.

I also made these using raisins! excellent!!!! even better than the dates!

I love the Coconut Cream Pie Larabar, absolutely delicious!!! Thanks for the chocolate fix recipe for these Larabars. 🙂

I’m making these tonight, they sound fantastic. I’m going to feature you on my blog as well I think you have a pretty cool little niche here.

I just made these and they are wonderful! Thank you!

I am in the process of changing the way I eat to a more balanced, more natural diet. Despite my efforts I still have a wicked sweet tooth and your recipes definitely hit the spot!

I like the Cherry Pie Larabars. Do you think you would soak the cherries first? Do the dates need soaking?

Hi Katie! I just was wondering how long these would last at room temperature, as I’m going on a 16 day trek to Everest base camp and am worried about the food options as a vegan, so having some of your amazing bars would be such a relief in case theres nothing for me to eat! Any help you or anyone else could give would be hugely appreciated 🙂 Thanks so much xx

I just made these and O.M.G!!! They are incredible! And tasty. And I didn’t have to spend several dollars for a tiny snack bar 😉 Thank you so much!

have made so many of your recipes this week but these amazed me the most! made them into bite sized squares and balls and they’re lasting ages. totally satisfy any naughty cravings and taste like fudgy brownies 100%!

So, I’m basically a blog-voyeur. I jump from blog to blog skimming for recipes and I try ones that stand out to my taste buds. Some work, some don’t; yours are usually very successful. I have 2 kids, one of which is a 7 year-old boy and is now super influenced by all the junk he sees other kids eating and its really difficult to balance out his diet without being so restrictive that the deprivation will ultimately lead to failure. I’ve recently been working on snack bars for him? I tried the cake batter bars which I thought were great, and he liked them, but not enough to really want them repeatedly and then I found this recipe. Being part of a chocoholic family, I had to try them. I took your recipe and tried my own version. I’ve never had a Lara bar before, and based on the ingredients, I think these probably have a lot of sugar, I will be calculating that later, but for now, they are AMAZING. I used walnuts, added hemp seeds and pumpkin seeds (a lil magnesium never hurt anybody), and I used black cocoa instead of regular. After I blended it all together, I threw in 3 organic oreo-version cookies and pulsed a few times for good measure and voila, oreo Lara bars! They are nothing short of spectacular! Seriously. Maybe you have that version already, lol, I haven’t checked. I wasn’t initially going to make them that way, but when I reached for the cocoa, I remembered the black cocoa and opted for the change. They seriously didn’t even need the oreos, but I figured it looked a lil more “oreo-ish” with the cookie specks. Your recipes are awesome, kudos to you!

I can’t say if these taste like an actual Lara bar or not since they don’t sell them here, but I thought these were absolutely great. They really taste like fudge.

I tasted some of the “batter” while making them and added extra cocoa and some chocolate chips, thinking it wasn’t sweet enough. But then when I finished forming them into bars, they were a lot sweeter than expected. I should’ve thought about that beforehand, but oh well, lesson learned: just always trust Katie!

(Un)luckily, my sweet tooth is crazy so it isn’t TOO sweet, just sweeter than I was going for.

Well that sucked, made a batch to last all week and they were gone in 48 hours!
On the plus side most of my paleo or grain free cooking efforts have been met with fear caution so atleast I know this one works!

*Lemon pie in the last comment

Whilst making these I’ve somehow managed to get cocoa powder all over my kitchen. Still worth it! These are heavenly!

How many does this recipe make?

Just made these–it was so fast! I used dark cocoa powder & formed them into balls & some into cookie shapes—I just couldn’t get past what it looked like when trying to form them into logs—I mean bars. 😀 😀 😀 😀 I can’t wait to try other flavors!! I wonder if cacao powder would work?? **I just realized I added 3 tsp of vanilla extract—oops…oh well, you can’t tell!!**