Learn how to make these amazing healthy chocolate chip almond butter cookie bars from scratch! They’re really soft and chewy with an almost fudgy brownie-like texture, and you just need 1 bowl and a fork to make them.They contain no eggs, butter, oil, dairy, flour or refined sugar and 90 calories!     For a few years as an undergraduate in college, I worked in an organic chemistry research lab on campus.Our head professor’s wife also led a lab in the same department, so each summer, the two of them hosted a BBQ potluck for their research groups in the park behind their house.

The couple provided the entrées — a variety of regular and veggie burgers, hot dogs, and sausages, all which my boss cooked fresh to order over the communal grills in the park — and the students brought appetizers, sides, drinks, and desserts.With over twenty grad students, undergrads, and postdocs in each group, most of whom brought family or significant others too, we always ended up with more than enough food to feed a small army!     Because I loved baking just as much then as I do now, I signed up to bring a homemade dessert the first year I attended.Knowing one of the grad students in our lab was allergic to every fruit except berries and citrus, I baked a double batch of lemon bars with a crunchy shortbread crust and silky smooth citrus filling, and I cut them into tiny bite-sized pieces, assuming people would feel more inclined to grab a smaller square so they would still

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