Easy Chocolate No-Bake Caramel Slices

The BEST EVER easy chocolate no-bake caramel slices with three interesting, melt-in-your-mouth layers and all wholesome unprocessed ingredients. These slices are vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free.

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Easy Chocolate No-Bake Caramel Slices (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)

No-bake chocolate slices are typically healthy but sometimes complicated to create, what with each layer having to be frozen.

Not so with this recipe. These easy chocolate no-bake caramel slices can be completed in less than 30 minutes. Ready?

And in case you need convincing, the bottom layer has the consistency of a soft chocolate cookie, and the middle layer is pure cream, the next layer up is sweet date caramel, and the top is a melted chocolate bar.

The bottom layer can be made vanilla by leaving off the cacao.

This recipe is the single most requested recipe in my house. And even relatives from afar clamor for me to make and mail them.

The only make-ahead-prep requirement is to buy and soak dates and cashews and buckwheat groats the night before.

And if buckwheat groats are hard to find or you don’t want to wait for Amazon, feel free to substitute rolled oats or even crushed walnuts or almonds. I’m easy, haha.

How Healthy Are These Slices?

These three ingredients add a lot of nutrition. Dates contribute iron and fiber, cashews are high in protein and health fats, and buckwheat groats are a pseudocereal, high in both protein and fiber as well as manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, niacin, zinc, folate, and vitamin B6. The other ingredients are all wholesome too, with their own contributions, coconuts, dark chocolate and more.

Once you have those three ingredients soaked overnight, the next morning, rinse and pull the layers together. The slices are ready as soon as the chocolate top sets, in about 15 minutes. The whole recipe takes me about 20 minutes to prep, blitz, layer and set. We keep them in an airtight container in the freezer. To eat, remove one and thaw 10 minutes before serve.

We have had them a month in the freezer and they were still perfect. I hope you try my slice recipe this weekend!

If you like these kind of desserts, you will love my Fudge Brownie Walnut Buckwheat Bites recipe, a bit easier, shorter ingredient list, and so easy to make!

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Easy Chocolate No-Bake Caramel Slices (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)

The BEST EVER easy chocolate no-bake caramel slices with three interesting, melt-in-your-mouth layers and all wholesome unprocessed ingredients.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free

Keyword chocolate

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings 16

Calories 330 kcal

Author Dee Dine

Ingredients

Soft Cookie Base

• 3/4 cup almond flour
• 3/4 cup coconut flour
• 1 tsp vanilla paste
• 3/4 cup buckwheat grouts soaked overnight
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 6 tbsp water
• 3 tbsp maple syrup
• 2 tbsp cacao powder leave this off for a blond base

Creamy White Layer

• 1 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
• 1 cup raw cashews soaked overnight
• 4 tbsp coconut oil
• 2 tbsp maple syrup

Fudge Layer

• 17 dates soaked overnight
• 1/2 cup cashews soaked overnight
• 3 tbsp coconut oil
• 3 tbsp water
• pinch of pink salt
• 1 tbsp cacao powder

Raw Chocolate Top

• 1 3.17oz dark chocolate bar
• 2 tsp coconut oil

Useful Equipment

• 1 8 inch by 8 inch pan

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prep

1. Soak cashews, dates and buckwheat overnight submerged in water in separate containers and in the refrigerator. Drain and rinse the next day for use in this recipe.

   Line the pan with parchment paper.
   

Make the Base

1. Put all base ingredients into a food processor.

   Process until thoroughly mixed, and press the resulting sticky dough into a pan lined with parchment. I smooth the surface by putting another sheet of parchment on top and pressing with a spatula.

   Pop this pan into the freezer while you make the soft layer.

Make the Other Two Layers

1. Process those ingredients, and press this mixture onto the first base layer, and put back in freezer while you melt the chocolate bar in the microwave at 60 seconds.
   

   Once melted, pour onto the second layer and refrigerate the slices with a cover of foil or parchment. Once chocolate is solid - doesn't take long, uncover and slice. Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

Easy Chocolate No-Bake Caramel Slices (vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free)

Amount Per Serving

Calories 330 Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Fat 7g11%

Saturated Fat 18g90%

Cholesterol 1mg0%

Sodium 18mg1%

Potassium 201mg6%

Carbohydrates 20g7%

Fiber 9g36%

Sugar 11g12%

Protein 9g18%

Vitamin C 0.1mg0%

Calcium 28mg3%

Iron 1.6mg9%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Dee Dine

Dee Dine is the recipe developer and writer behind Green Smoothie Gourmet. She shares her super healthy wholesome recipes on her blog and her Instagram that she feeds her family and friends. She gravitates toward recipes that are fast to create, plant-based, nutritious, easy, and use familiar ingredients. And chocolate is always a good idea! More about Dee.