Fruit Bars

Here's an intensely flavorful snack packed with dried fruit, nuts, seeds and coconut: a large summation to your no-bake repertoire.

The cardinal to a tasty effect is to usage a assortment of ingredients; integrating a small coconut lipid helps to hindrance the substance portion a bully slurp of vanilla extract rounds retired and deepens the flavor.

Once pasty (honestly, that's the ideal) and pressed into a tiny loaf pan, the confection is refrigerated until steadfast and casual to slice.

You'll request a 7-by-4-inch loaf pan. Author Lisa Yockelson says a heavy-duty nutrient processor is indispensable for this recipe. Do not substitute a blender oregon low-powered nutrient processor, and bash not permission the processor unattended arsenic it runs.

The fruit-mixture loaf needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 5 hours and up to overnight. The uncut loaf oregon sliced bars tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 2 weeks; individually wrapped for semipermanent storage.

From cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per bar

• Calories

  110

• Fat

  5 g

• Saturated Fat

  3 g

• Carbohydrates

  17 g

• Sodium

  25 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.