I've tried so many sugarless recipes but this is by far the best! Tastes so much better than those packaged "healthy" breakfast muffins/bars and it's by far better for you! I added orange juice instead of water used butter but cut it in half threw in some nutmeg and cinnamon and cut the white flour with whole-wheat ground flax seed and wheat germ. The resulting bars were SO flavorful moist chewy and possibly a little too sweet! Next time I will only replace 1/2c water with orange juice and add less dates and I might replace most of the fat with applesauce. This is for sure worth a try if you're looking for a healthy sweet snack without the refined sugar.
I have been looking for a sugarfree recipe like this. Also may I suggest something? Some diabetics can't have flour either; Instead of using a cup of flour grind enough nuts to make an equal amount for replacement of flour. The nuts must be ground to a dustlike substance. Thank you again. I will let you know how they came out. April
People who knew these were intentionally sugarless loved them. I thought they were great! Kept half of the bars wrapped for a day which brought out the moistness of the fruit and rounded out the flavors. Excellent for mailing in "care packages."
These were moist and delicious I added a jumble of dried fruit bits instead of dates and prunes(not a big fan) and they were still lovely also boiled the fruits in oj/water mix to slightly sweeten the batter.
Very good taste but not suitable for diabetics. As the fruit is very high in natural sugar. An alternative would be to rinse the dates and prunes of the syrup they are coated in when bought and then add them to the recipe but I only ate one small piece being diabetic and it rose my blood sugars alarmingly.
My husband is diabetic so I made these for him but I loved them! I am a real sugar addict and I love to bake but I found these bars very easy and yummy. They satisfy my sweet tooth without the sugar and fat. I even made some for the nurse and nutritionist who counsel my husband. I ran off a copy of the recipe and brought warm bars in to one of his appointments. They loved them too! A real winner! Kids may not like the nuts but you could leave them out.
These bars do not have ADDED sugar but raisins dates and prunes do have sugar. My box of raisins says 29 grams of sugar per 1/4 cup of raisins. The sugar naturally found in fruit may be better than added processed sugar but don't count it out completely.
It is worth mentioning that these like most "sugar free" recipes are NOT sugar free. The dried fruits contain plenty of sugar.
i made this recipe as muffins (it didn't make a whole dozen) and my parents raved about them they loved that they were full of fruit and fiber. they had a surprisingly dense and moist texture which was great. i guess my cravings for a junkier treat got the best of me but overall this recipe is wonderful since it doesn't use sugar in addition to the fruits' sugar.
