are you soaking the chia seeds first?

My husband fell in love with the Health Warrior Chia bars you get at Whole Foods. He likes them packed in his work lunches. The only problem is that they are $2 apiece and loaded with Agave and brown rice syrups. Since we try and abstain from refined sweeteners, I was blessed to find this recipe. I substituted carob powder for the cocoa and added a tablespoon of PB2 to make them peanut butter flavored, like the Health Warrior ones. The "batter" was so delicious! Even though mine aren't 100% raw, I'm glad they aren't overly processed or expensive. It will be a nice treat for my husband to take to work. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!

I will definitely try these. I would mostly likely not use the extracts and use more fruit for flavor. I think adding chia to this 3 ingredient recipe would be good too: http://messnkitchn.blogspot.com/2013/03/energy-bars-make-your-own-vegan-gluten.html

Please, if you are going to offer a "superfood" recipe, it should be accompanied by nutritional and caloric information to be really useful. Take responsibility or all aspects of what you recommend we eat.

For how long this bars stay fresh?? :)

soak the chia seeds for just 5 minutes in 1 -2 TBS of almond milk ( milk or just plain water). liquid activates the chia seeds and they turn very gelatinous no need for other binding ingredients The first time i made them, they did fall apart, not this time

I made these today, I toasted pecans and used them instead. These are delish! I did have to use about 1/4 cup of water to help them bind in the processor. I will make these again!

This recipe is awesome, tastes like brownie batter prior to hitting the fridge! Have made it multiple times and can say the type, quality, and length of time the dates have been waiting in the fridge to be used really affects the moisture level....so just add water when needed- no problemo! When I originally began using this recipe I had a rather cheap food processor and have since been lucky enough to upgrade, my current power house does have a much easier time (making it less likely additional water is required)....I don't think I would be happy to burn out a processor on this recipe, so use caution with the cheaper guys, but it can still be done! Yummy!

I keep on reading other comments where the bars are "crumbly" or you need to "SOAK the dates"... All my bars have come out right so I suspect that the other users are using un-fresh/old dates to make their bars. I give this recipe a 10/10. :D p.s. If your processor broke, it's the processor not the recipe.

I just read that ONE DATE contains about 16g of sugar!!!! Is this true?? NO WONDER IT'S CALLED 'ENERGY BARS!'

Sounds good, but it seems like you would definitely need to SOAK the dates for 30 minutes first!

every time we have a potluck at work, the team asks me to make these! very good and easy to make!

This recipe is great! i improvised this recipe a bit. While making the puree of the dates, it was tough to grind, so i added around 1/4 cup of water. I also roasted rolled oats and mixed into the mixture. To make a good binding of all the ingredients, i added 1 table spoon of agave nector. And voila! it was one amazing energy bar! My husband and i love having these bars just before hitting the gym, to get some energy after a hard day at work.

These, for me, turned out super crumbly. The flavor was great, but the bars did not stick together at all!

Horrible to make! it broke 2 of my food processors.What a waste of money for the ingredients. Very disappointed