Bar Wars, Return of the Laras
What’s your favorite bar? Lately, I seem to keep striking out on the bar front. Maybe the powers that be are just trying to tell me: Stop looking; you’ve already found more than enough that you love (Wilds, Jocalats, all varieties of fudge baby bars, and on and on). But even though I have enough variety, flavor-wise, to never be bored, curiosity gets the best of me each time I see a fun new product. I just love trying new things!
The latest: I finally tried the Larabar carrot cake bars that came in my surprise package from the company. Sad to say, I was, once again, underwhelmed. They weren’t bad or anything, but my own carrot cake bars are better. So, naturally—still craving carrot cake (Aren’t I always?), I had to go and make some homemade bars.
(I’m not the only one with a carrot addiction. These three guys apparently share my love!)
I topped off my homemade Carrot Cake Bars with coconut butter and carrot.
Lesson to be learned: coconut-butter-topped bars > coconut-butter-less bars every single time. The poor Larabars never stood a chance.
And there I go with the fake flowers again. Signature CCK. Hey, don’t hate on the fake flowers: they’re easier to take care of (no watering!) and they don’t die ;). But perhaps I, at least, need to invest in some new colors!
Above, Larabar meets homemade Carrot Cake Bar.
I don’t not recommend the carrot cake Larabars: If you’re a fan of dried pineapple, you’ll probably like them, because that’s all I tasted. Actually, to me they taste exactly like the apple pie Larabars with added pineapple. But my favorite Larabars are still—and probably always will be—the chocolate Jocalat bars. ‘Cause on them, you can perform the Brownie trick, taking these bars from yummy to YUMlicious!! Just a few seconds in the microwave leads to pure chocolate-brownie bliss. In summary: for carrot cake, I’ll stick to my bars. However, when it comes to chocolate, nobody does it better than Lara!
Microwave Brownie Trick:
- Unwrap a Chocolate Jocalat bar, and place on a microwave-safe plate.
- Microwave for about 15 seconds, then open the door and turn.
- Then microwave 10 seconds.
- Open door (to let some heat out) and microwave 10 more seconds if you want it really melty.
(Don’t microwave too long; burnt chocolate’s a party pooper.) If you want the baked-brownie taste but not the mess of the melted chocolate, you can put the cooked Jocalat in the fridge or freezer so all the melted chocolate re-hardens. Oh goodness, raw foodists hate me right now, don’t they??
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Sending HUGE thanks to all who defended me on yesterday’s post.
I won’t even mention the negative, but I can’t go without telling y’all how much your supportive comments meant to me. Actually, your kind comments always mean a lot to me; I don’t thank you enough. Thank you!!
the jocolat larabars are the freaking best ever. i like the new laras but they’re a bit too sweet for me? and i’m still so bummed that the pistachio ones are discontinued cause i LOVE pistachios.
RIP pistachio larabar 🙁
your katiebar is so pretty!!
I have been on a HUGE carrot cake lately! I’m literally turning orange, I kid you not. It’s crazy. I made some raw carrot cake bites the other day that were pretty good, but I want to perfect the recipe before I post them. 🙂
I should make a raw carrot cake bar! Just cause it’s got coconut butter on top 😉
Can’t wait to see who gets the larabars. I HOPE IT”S ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hm, I should really try and make your bars now. I made fudge babies a few times, but never something with carrots. Gotta try it 🙂
When will you start selling these???
Oh those look AMAZING!
I love trying new bars too, so many different tastes!!! if you ever want to do a bar swap with someone from the uk, let me know! we have lots of different ones over here now, but STILL no laras!!!! haha. Ill have to keep my finger crossed for the competition results tomo :-p
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I didn’t really see the Larabar light until last week and I grabbed a Coconut Cream Pie bar on the way to class. I was starving and popped a bite in my mouth during a small seminar class and had to actually stifle a moan of pleasure.
i hated the new carrot cake bar too! pineapple?! wtf haha. needed fresh grated carrot and loads more cinnamon! i like my DIY version better!
Your homemade carrot cake bars look amazing! Maybe I should try that fudge baby flavour next? (Thanks for the sweet comments on my blog! :))