Triple Cocoa Bars

 

These healthy Triple Cocoa Bars will blast you with chocolate and cocoa from every direction!

Look for cacao nibs in health food stores, specialty food stores, Whole Foods Market, or at nuts.com. If unavailable, the bars are still delicious without them.

These bars contain around 4-5 grams “net” carbs per bar, well within the tolerance for most people.

Yields approximately 10 bars

1 cup ground almonds

2 tablespoons coconut flour

1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cup cacao nibs

1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

2 ounces 85-90% cocoa chocolate, finely chopped

3/4 cup raw pumpkin or sunflower seeds

Sweetener equivalent to 3/4 cup sugar

2 tablespoons almond butter

1/4 cup coconut milk

2 tablespoons coconut oil or cocoa butter (food grade)

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Lay sheet of parchment paper on large baking pan.

In large bowl, combine ground almonds, coconut flour, cocoa powder, cacao nibs, coconut, chocolate bits, pumpkin seeds, and sweetener (if dry) and mix.

In microwave-safe bowl or in small sauce pan, add almond butter, coconut milk, and coconut oil and sweetener (if liquid) and heat for 15 second increments in microwave until liquid, but not hot. If using stove, heat at low-heat enough to make liquid easily mixed, but not hot.

Pour liquid into dry almond mixture and mix together thoroughly. If too stiff, add water one tablespoon at at time until the consistency of thick dough.

Spoon out approximately 1 1/2-inch balls, shaping with the spoon and/or your hands into bar shapes.

Bake for 35 minutes. Remove and cool.

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