Cooking WOD 12.11 Sea Salt Caramel Bars

Recipe from Lululemon (http://www.lululemon.com/community/blog/seawheeze-sea-salt-caramel-bars-yum/?cid=fbseawheezebars)

Makes 12-15 bars

 
ingredients
• 4 cups of fresh pitted Medjool dates (about 48 dates)
• 3 cups of raw cashews
• 4 tablespoon chia seeds
• 2 tsp sea salt
• dash of vanilla extract (optional)

directions
1. Place the pitted dates in a bowl and soak in water for 15 minutes. (This can be longer or shorter depending on the amount of time you have. The purpose is to soften them to make them process more easily into a paste). Drain the dates.
2. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit
3. Put all ingredients (dates, cashews, chia seeds, sea salt and vanilla (if you are using it) in a food processor. Process the mixture for about a minute. You may need to stop the processing and scrape the sides of the bowl and then process again.
4. Once the mixture is smooth, form the mixture into bars with your hands and place on a cooking sheet.
5. Bake* the bars for 15 minutes. Remove and put them on a pan with wax paper or parchment paper and place in the freezer until you are ready to enjoy!
*the purpose of baking the bars is to take out stickiness, not to make the bars crunchy. Your final bar should be soft yet still together.