Easy chocolate coconut caramel bars, no-bake with three interesting, melt-in-your-mouth layers and all wholesome unprocessed ingredients. These bars are vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free. Short-cut, speedy method shared below as well!
Chocolate Coconut Caramel Bars
These chocolate coconut caramel bars are a no-bake chocolate desserts, so delicious and so easy to create, completed in less than 30 minutes. Ready?
And in case you need convincing, the bottom layer has the consistency of crumbly chocolate cake, 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 cocoa.
This recipe is the single most requested recipe in my house. And even relatives from afar clamor for me to make and mail them.
Main Ingredients Needed
Flour: Almond and coconut help make this base full of fiber and protein.
Buckwheat groats: Provide structure and many essential nutrients not found in other foods. Walnuts can be used instead.
Shredded coconut: This single ingredient makes a delicious white frosting-like middle layer.
Dates: Make a homemade date paste by blending dates with water for this healthy caramel layer.
Chocolate: Chips or bar, melted, make another single-ingredient layer, the snappy top.
How to Make Chocolate Coconut Bars
1. The make-ahead-prep requirement is to buy and soak (or boil) dates and buckwheat groats the night before. If buckwheat groats are hard to find (try the bulk food area of a Whole Foods), or use walnuts instead but don't soak them.
2. Mix up all the layers. The two middle layers are so simple, just coconut butter and date paste. Both of which are inexpensive to make at home ahead of time and have other uses so make more of each and refrigerate it.
3. Assemble them and freeze the bars.
How Healthy Are These Chocolate Coconut Bars
These three ingredients add a lot of nutrition. Dates contribute iron and fiber, cashews and coconut 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.
How to Make Homemade Vegan Caramel?
Healthy caramel can be made quite easily by blending dates with water. It turns into a lovely sweet caramel that works perfectly in this layer. Here's my detailed recipe for date paste with video.
Tips to Make These Chocolate Coconut Bars
1. Be sure to soak the dates and buckwheat groats overnight, and rinse them the next day.
2. To cut clean slices, dip a sharp knife in hot water, wipe dry, and make a cut. Then repeat.
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Chocolate Coconut Caramel Bars
Ingredients
Soft Cookie Base
- ¾ cup almond flour
- ¾ cup coconut flour
- ¾ cup buckwheat grouts or walnuts
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- ½ cup coconut oil
- 6 tablespoon water
- 3 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 tablespoon cocoa powder leave this off for a blond base
Creamy coconut butter
- 1 cup homemade coconut butter Use my recipe here.
Caramel Layer
- 1 cup homemade date paste Use my recipe here.
Chocolate Top
- 1 3.17oz dark chocolate bar
- 2 teaspoon coconut oil
Useful Equipment
- 1 8 inch by 8 inch pan
Instructions
Prep
- You can soak overnight the dates and buckwheat together, but I have been just boiling them together for 5 minutes and it works great. Just rinse very very well once boiled.If you are using walnuts INSTEAD of buckwheat groats DO NOT BOIL or SOAK the walnuts.Line the pan with parchment paper.
Make the Base
- 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 Layers
- Make the coconut butter following my coconut butter recipe. Basically blend up 4 cups of shredded coconut into a creamy spread and press that onto the base later.
- Make the caramel layer by following my date paste recipe. Basically blend up 10-12 dates with ½ cup of water and spread that on the coconut butter layer.
- Put back in freezer while you melt the chocolate in the microwave at 60 seconds. Once melted, pour onto the top layer and freeze the slices with a cover of foil or parchment for at least two hours.
- Then heat a sharp knife by dipping it into hot water, wiping it dry, and cutting. Repeat.
- Store slices in freezer long-term or refrigerate for a week if you don't mind them soft.
camila
This recipe is a keeper!!! Love these chocolate slices!!!
Dee Dine
Thanks for stopping by Camila! Dee xx
Bianca Zapatka
These look so delicious, Dee! Want them for dessert now! 😃❤️
Dee Dine | Green Smoothie Gourmet
Thank you Bianca, be happy to share with you! Dee xx