The Yummiest Health Treat Ever..

Ok, so before you look at the  post title and then what the health bars are called,  and roll your eyes, indulge me! As you all know my beloved little sister is a chef! She brought this recipe to me a said lets try it, its a health bars thing.... I then read Chocolate Coffee Caramel Bars and said 'HEALTH BARS' -you are having a laugh! But, you all know me by now.... anything to do with CHOCOLATE and I am HeAvEn -chocolate heaven to be exact!

Off we marched to the kitchen(my favourite place), it is a relatively easy recipe, and we had most of the ingredients in my pantry cupboard, we used plain old dates (the compressed little block)  and plain butter, so if you can use the proper almond butter-do so and please let me know how they turn out.(Almond butter is very dear here and  really hard to get) making commenced -  most of it is done in the food processor so its pretty quick and easy,  when we were done, we called LSO( Iwas asked what LSO stood for by a friend a few days ago..... Long Suffering One=Husband) and he said 'they look fattening', but tried them anyway. Let me tell you, you will not stop eating these delectable little bars of yumminess, the tray was empty in a flash!  I am not big on dates but yum yum yummmmmmm, these little bars are fantastic, you cannot taste the dates, but a strong taste of coffee and coconut come thru, and please put the salt on the top, it just somehow enhances the flavour! (mouth watering again)

Please remember this is not my recipe,(it was sent to my sister by a friend) but we did tweak it to suit what we had! I also  really wanted to give it to you exactly as it was written because I think it is so cute and so funny.  These "health bars" will be added to my recipe book and used again and again! ENJOY!

Crust Ingredients

Crust Done

Caramel Inside Made


 

 Little Helping Hands

 All Done

YuMmY

 Tea and a Bit of Sweet Stuff!

Chocolate Coffee Caramel Bars!

Ingredients
For the crust
12 dried figs (or dates, if you prefer), stems removed
1/2 cup almond butter
1/4 cup Unsweetended Shredded Coconut
2 tablespoons Raw Honey
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt

For the caramel
12-14 medjool dates, pitted and soaked in water for an hour
5-6 tablespoons canned coconut milk
3 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
pinch of salt

For the topping
1 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips or dark chocolate, melted
1/4 canned coconut milk
2 teaspoons ground coffee
coarse sea salt, to top

Instructions
First make your crust. Add all of your crust ingredients into a food processor and mix until well combined. Add the crust mixture to a bread pan and push down until the mixture is flat. Like a crust. Duh.
Now add your dates and pulse until dates have broken down (less than a minute) then add your coconut milk tablespoon by tablespoon to the dates while the food processor is still running. Then add your water as well.
And add your vanilla extract and pinch of salt.
Process until you get a caramel. BOOM. May take 3-5 minutes, tops.
Pour caramel over your crust and spread evenly.
Now you will want to melt your chocolate. You could do this in a double boiler or just the microwave. I chose the latter.
Melt chocolate and coconut milk together in the microwave. Heating for 30 seconds then mixing well and reheating when necessary.
Once your chocolate is completely melted, add your ground coffee and mix well.
Pour melted chocolate over your caramel and spread evenly.
Add coarse sea salt on top of the chocolate.
Put in freezer to let chocolate harden. Around 10+ minutes.
Eat!!