One of my favorite Christmas baking treats happens to be Date Bars. Even though the Xmas season is the farthest thing on my mind now, I had some chopped dates in my pantry that I wanted to use. I decided on baking my favorite Christmas Vegan Date Bars. In the Christmas version, these delicious bars are very basic, a rolled oat cookie crust with a thick gooey date filling. Sometimes with nuts or coconut. Since, I prefer to save that kind of recipe exclusively for the X-mas season...(I really am sentimental and traditional when it comes to food and certain holidays,) and there is never a "wrong" time in my book to use chocolate chips in baking, I made this family favorite recipe but with a few changes.
The end result was a delightful, anytime, chocolaty, moist and utterly delicious vegan Date Bar, with a new name.
In fact, no one really knew that they were eating my Christmas Vegan Date Bars, apparently I layed the chocolate chips on pretty thick so they seemed more like Choc.Chip Oatmeal Bars instead! However, let's not underestimate the goodness of dates in a vegan diet. Those little morsels are plenty good for you with necessary fibre, potassium and even calcium! (One serving about 1/2 cup of dates provides 484 mg. of potassium, 35 mg. of calcium, 55 mg. of phosphorus and 71 g. of fiber, to start with among other nutrients.)
The cool thing about these Bars, I'm discovering, is that they are highly adaptable to any time of year with the addition of a few ingredients. I am thinking of adding some fresh cherries or raspberries in the filling in the summer, I'll keep you posted! (recipe posted in side bar)
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