These chewy chocolate coconut bars function three layers of buttery coconut and melted chocolate. They style like a magic cookie bar mixed with an inside-out Mounds bar!
Why you’ll love these simple chocolate coconut bars
No bake treats. The bars come collectively in minutes, with no oven required. It’s the proper snack or dessert for a sizzling summer time day.
Straightforward to make at residence. You want simply 5 components!
Freezer pleasant. Put together an enormous batch and retailer them within the freezer, for fast happiness everytime you’re craving chocolate and coconut.
Good for feeding a crowd. The coconut fudge bars are simple to move or omit unrefrigerated, that means they’re an ideal alternative for events, potlucks, e book golf equipment, or another time you want a eye-catching recipe in a rush.
Customizable. You possibly can create infinite completely different flavors, with sugar free, gluten free, keto, dairy free, egg free, paleo, and vegan choices all included.
You may additionally like this Coconut Ice Cream
Step-by-step recipe video
Key components
Coconut – The recipe calls for 3 and a half cups of shredded unsweetened coconut. For finest outcomes, don’t use sweetened coconut as a result of the bars will style too candy. To keep away from crumbly bars, I additionally advocate in opposition to substituting low fats shredded coconut.
Chocolate Chips – I like darkish chocolate chips. Semi candy or no sugar chocolate chips work, as do chopped chocolate bars.
Sweetener – This generally is a liquid sweetener, like pure maple syrup or agave or honey. Or you are able to do a low carb and sugar free model with stevia or powdered erythritol and water.
Coconut Oil – Select both unrefined or refined coconut oil, or an equal quantity of melted coconut butter. Don’t omit this ingredient or swap it for vegetable oil, as a result of coconut oil hardens when chilled and helps the bars to correctly set.
Salt – Just a bit salt provides dimension and retains the bars from tasting flat. You possibly can technically depart it out, however provided that it’s essential to.
Vanilla Extract (elective) – I like to incorporate half a teaspoon of pure vanilla extract, to reinforce the candy coconut taste.
Almond Butter (elective) – A 3rd cup of almond butter provides wholesome fat and protein, plus a easy end to the chocolate. It additionally offers you a thicker chocolate layer. You possibly can omit the almond butter in the event you favor. (If you would like tree nut free bars however nonetheless desire a thicker chocolate layer, simply add extra chocolate chips.)
make chocolate coconut bars
- Line an eight inch sq. pan with parchment paper or wax paper. Set this pan apart.
- Throw the shredded coconut and coconut oil, sweetener, vanilla extract, and salt right into a meals processor. Mix till evenly mixed. (If you don’t personal a meals processor, you’ll be able to stir all the things collectively by hand. It’s best to extend the coconut oil by two tablespoons if stirring by hand, to maintain the bottom from crumbling.)
- Unfold about two thirds of the coconut combination into your ready pan. Press down rather well together with your palms or a big spoon or a sheet of parchment paper.
- Fastidiously soften the chocolate chips in a warmth secure bowl. You possibly can microwave one minute, stir, then microwave in ten second increments, stirring after every. Or soften the chocolate utilizing the double boiler technique on the range prime.
- Stir the elective almond butter into the chocolate sauce till utterly easy. Then unfold over the layer of coconut within the baking pan.
- Lastly, disperse the remaining coconut over the chocolate. Refrigerate or freeze till agency sufficient to slice into squares or bars.
- Outside on a cool day or in a cool indoor setting, the no bake snack bars can sit out unrefrigerated. Retailer any leftovers in a coated container within the fridge or freezer for as much as a month.
Katie’s favourite taste variations
Cherry: Lower the sweetener within the recipe under by one tablespoon. Mix two tablespoons of cherry jam in with the coconut, in your very personal do-it-yourself Australian Cherry Ripe bars.
White Out: Swap the darkish or semi candy chocolate chips for white chocolate chips. Or butterscotch chips, cinnamon chips, or Vegan Peanut Butter Chips. Or… you get the image.
Chocolate Strawberry: Add a layer of thinly sliced strawberries over prime of the chocolate layer. This identical concept works with raspberries, blueberries, or sliced bananas as nicely.
Peanut Butter: Use creamy or crunchy peanut butter as a substitute of the almond butter. Chocolate coconut peanut butter? Sure, please!
Caramel: Unfold melted caramels or Coconut Caramel over prime of the chocolate layer.
Toasted Coconut: Earlier than mixing, toast the shredded coconut in a pan over low warmth simply till it begins to show gentle brown. (It can flip darker brown because it cools.) Proceed with the recipe.
Almond Pleasure: The unique model tastes like a Mounds Bar sweet bar. Flip it into an almond pleasure by merely urgent a complete almond into the highest of every sliced bar.
The bars have been tailored from my Coconut Balls and these Home made Bounty Bars.
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*For seven enjoyable taste variations, see above.
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1. Line the underside of an eight inch sq. pan with parchment paper. Put aside.
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2. Course of the coconut, oil, sweetener, vanilla, and salt in a meals processor till evenly blended. (You possibly can technically stir by hand, however I like to recommend including two tbsp additional oil to keep away from crumbly bars.)
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3. Firmly press down about 2/3 of the blended coconut into the underside of the pan.
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4. Fastidiously soften the chocolate chips in a warmth secure bowl. You need to use the microwave (warmth one minute, stir, then warmth in 10 second increments and stir after every) or the double boiler technique.
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5. Stir the elective almond butter into the melted chocolate. Unfold over the coconut layer.
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6. Scatter remaining coconut on prime of the chocolate layer. Then chill the chocolate coconut bars within the fridge or freezer till agency sufficient to slice into squares.
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7. The recipe is okay to depart out in a cool room for a couple of hours. Refrigerate or freeze leftovers in a coated container for as much as one month.
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