Name: DIY Lara Bars
Ingredients: 2 cups of chopped dates; 2 cups of raw cashews, sunflower seeds, or almonds; 1 cup of coconut flakes + (1 cup of coconut flakes for coconut milk); ¼ cup virgin coconut oil, melted; ½ cup organic raisins; ½ cup dried cranberries; ¼ cup flax, freshly ground

Ingredients

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1 ½ cups almost boiling water
1 cup organic unsweetened coconut flakes

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Instructions

Pour very hot water over coconut flakes and allow to sit for 15 minutes
Pour this into a food processor or blender
Blend on high for 3 to 5 minutes or process in the food processor until coconut flakes are very finely chopped – like graham cracker crumbs
Pour contents of blender (or processor work bowl) into a fine sieve and allow coconut milk to drip out into a jar
Press the pulp with the back of a spoon to extract most of the coconut milk and coconut oil

Notes

You will use all the pulp plus ½ cup of coconut cream/milk in the DIY Lara Bars recipe
The extra ½ to ¾ cup of coconut milk can be used for something else