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    Chocolate Caramel Candy Bars

    Dec 29, 2021 · Updated: Oct 24, 2024 by Dee Dine · Affliate links disclosure.

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    Caramel bars

    Homemade caramel candy bars made with chocolate chips, dates and nut butter. Only 3 ingredients, all wholesome and unprocessed.

    caramel candy bars on a table.

    These caramel candy bars are similar in various ways to other candy bars with caramel including Milk Way, Lindt Caramel, Cadbury, Sugar Daddy's and Twix of course! Like my homemade fudge bars, these homemade caramel candy bars use dates and two other ingredients to be outstanding. Plus they are simple to make.

    Caramel Candy Bars
    The filling I chose for these bars is a mix of two healthier ingredients that are easy to buy and prepare into a luscious healthy caramel that you'll want to eat with a spoon. But it's even more fun tucked in a bar, so save some.

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    • Ingredients
    • Step by Step Instructions
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    • Variations
    • More Healthy Chocolates
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    Ingredients

    ingredients for caramel chocolate bar and silicon mold

    1. Chocolate - As with any recipe, the quality of the chocolate influences the recipe so choose the best tasting and healthiest chocolate chips or bar you have access to.

    2. Dates - Dates are becoming so popular that they are much easier to find in supermarket produce sections than a few years ago. And that's great news because dates make an excellent sugar substitute and increase the health value of any dessert with fiber, magnesium, iron and more. And they are excellent antioxidants, thus help fight disease. [source]

    3. Peanut butter - Peanut butter is delicious but any nut butter or even sunflower seed butter will work.

    See the recipe card at the bottom for full information on ingredients and quantities.

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    Step by Step Instructions

    For more detail, visit the complete and printable recipe at the bottom of this post, but here are general steps.

    Step 1: Melt 2 cups chocolate chips in microwave for 1 minute intervals and stir until melted.

    Step 2: Pour first layer into chocolate mold. Tap on the counter to release any air bubbles. You'll have about ⅓ of the melted chocolate left. Set it aside.

    Step 3: Set mold in refrigerator for 10 minutes to harden while you make date paste. Boil 10 dates for 1 minute. Pit them, blend them with ½ cup of water. Stir the nut or seed butter into the warm date paste until mixed.

    Step 4: Spoon on top of chilled chocolate layer and spread with the back of a spoon.

    Caramel candy bars steps 1-4.

    Step 5: Scrap off top with a pastry scrapper

    Step 6: To keep the inside caramel soft, do not refrigerate the mold - just let the bars harden at room temperature so the interior is creamy and not hard.

    caramel candy bars steps 5 and 6.

    How to Store

    Store the bars wrapped at room temperature. Refrigerate or freeze after that but know that the center caramel will harden when chilled.

    Other Chocolate Bar Fillings

    So if you can't get your hands on dates, but you can find sweet potato puree, you are in luck. You can fill your chocolate bars with my chocolate sweet potato frosting.

    Actually you can use any of the fillings in the recipes you can find in my homemade chocolates in a box post.

    Variations

    It's easy to change up these bars, aside from a different filling. Some options include re-dipping the bars in, say, melted coconut butter, sprinkling the filling with nuts or even mini chocolate chips, or my personal favorite, adding sea salt to the caramel before putting the final chocolate layer on.

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    caramel candy bars on a table.

    Chocolate Caramel Candy Bars

    Created by Dee Dine
    Homemade caramel candy bars made with chocolate chips, dates and nut butter. Only three ingredients, all wholesome and unprocessed.
    5 from 3 votes
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    Prep Time 20 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 50 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 6
    Calories 246 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 cups chocolate chips or quality chocolate
    • ½ cup date paste 10 dates, boiled, pitted, blended with ½ cup of water
    • 1 tablespoon nut or seed butter

    Equipment

    • Silicon Candy Bar Mold
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    Instructions

    • Melt 2 cups chocolate chips in microwave for 1 minute intervals and stir until melted.
      2 cups chocolate chips or quality chocolate
    • Pour first layer into chocolate mold. Tap on the counter to release any air bubbles. You'll have about ⅓ of the melted chocolate left. Set it aside.
    • Set mold in refrigerator for 10 minutes to harden.
    • Make date paste. Boil 10 dates for 1 minute. Pit them, blend them with ½ cup of water.
      ½ cup date paste
    • Stir the nut or seed butter into the warm date paste until mixed.
      1 tablespoon nut or seed butter
    • Spoon on top of chilled chocolate layer and spread with the back of a spoon.
    • Scrap off top with a pastry scrapper
    • To keep the inside caramel soft, do not refrigerate the mold - just let the bars harden at room temperature. I felt the bars could have been removed from the mold after an hour but waited longer so I could photograph it.
    • Store the bars wrapped at room temperature for two days. Refrigerate after that but know that the center caramel will harden when chilled.

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    Notes

    Storage. Store the bars wrapped at room temperature. Refrigerate or freeze after that but know that the center caramel will harden when chilled.
    Other chocolate bar coatings. Try dipping a corner in melted coconut butter.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 246kcalCarbohydrates: 35gProtein: 1gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 7gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 14mgPotassium: 100mgFiber: 1gSugar: 30gVitamin A: 1IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 14mgIron: 1mg
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