Homemade LaraBar Recipes

I love LÄRABARS

I love them in an obsessive sort of way.

I love them in a way that is bordering on unseemly.

I love them because they are made with a minimal number of real ingredients with…

• no sweeteners,
• no fillers,
• no supplements,
• no flavorings or
• no preservatives

LÄRABARS are 100% real food.

But, more than all of that, I love how LÄRABARS taste.

No word of a lie, I would turn down a slice of your grandma’s special chocolate cake for a LÄRABAR (or two).

Problem is, LÄRABARS ain’t cheap.

For example, one of my clients uses LÄRABARS to fuel her Health Habits workouts.

And at $2.50 per bar x 2 bars per workout x 5 workouts per week, that means she spends $25 per week on LÄRABARS. If we assume that she takes two weeks off from her workout schedule per year, that means she spends $25 x 50 weeks = $1250 per year on LÄRABARS.

Which she would be okay with. Unfortunately, her husband isn’t.

So, to maintain connubial bliss, my client and I went online in search of homemade LÄRABAR recipes.

Here’s what we found:

• The Inner Gourmet makes a mean Cashew Cookie Larabar
• Chocolate Covered Katie makes Cashew Cookie Larabar clones as well as a wide variety of Fudge Babies (you need to check these out)
• Chilli and Chocolate has recipes for Lemon Coconut Larabars and Chocolate Larabars
• I found a whole bunch of recipes for various Larabar permutations on Spark People
• Chocolate & Zucchini makes a gourmet version with Cardamom pods
• A bunch of different recipes on this Hub Page
• A PB&J Larabar recipe from the Teens Eat twins
• The Gracious Pantry has a recipe for Cherry Pecan Larabars
• Enlightened Cooking shows you haw to make a wide variety of different Larabars
• Oh She Glows whips up a variety of different Larabars as well – Coconut Cream Pie, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Banana Bread and Chocolate Mint
• Eat, Run, Do Yoga has recipes for Almond, Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie and Chocolate Coconut Pie Larabars – note, there is oatmeal in these bars
• She also has recipes for Chocolate, Mexican Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cookie and PB & J Larabars
• Baroque Pearl has a recipe for Lemon-Nut Chocolate Truffle Larabars
• Here are another 6 Larabar recipes I found on Livestrong
• Andrea Fabry gives you a Larabar template for those DIYers out there

And for those visual learners out there, here is a “how to make” Larabars video for your viewing pleasure.

Well, that should be enough to get you started. But if none of those flavor combinations suit your fancy, here is a list of the “official” Larabar flavors.

• Chocolate chip brownie
• Chocolate chip cookie dough
• Peanut butter chocolate chip
• Peanut butter cookie
• PB & J
• Tropical Fruit Tart
• Carrot Cake
• Cherry Pie
• Chocolate Coconut
• Cocoa Mole
• Cinnamon Roll
• Lemon Bar
• Banana Bread
• Pecan Pie
• Cashew Cookie
• Coconut Cream Pie
• Ginger Snap
• Apple Pie
• Key Lime Pie
• Chocolate Hazelnut Jocolat
• German Chocolate Cake Jocolat
• Chocolate Coffee Jocolat
• Chocolate Jocolat
• Chocolate Mint Jocolat
• Chocolate Cherry Jocolat

Bon appetit

And, just in case your sweet tooth gets overloaded and you begin to crave something savoury, click here to see a list of the Health Irishmans paleo-friendly recipes.