Yep. That just happened.
I LOVE these bars. Pure joy in a bit. Or 18. Whichever route your mouth takes you. These would be perfect for a Saint Patty’s Day celebration! Why? Because I said so. And I was too lazy to create a paleo corned beef and cabbage recipe. Mainly because I didn’t want to eat it. I’m sure it’s delicious, but I’d rather eat caramel bars all day, every day. And I can do all that because it’s my blog. Winning!
I saw a full camouflage truck today. Complete camo. Yeah. That was a good idea.
The other day, my friend Missy gave me the idea of making vanilla chai almond butter. And I did it. And ate it all in one day. I wish I were lying. Thankfully I didn’t make a ton of it because I knew I would be alone in the house with it later that night, but it still stared at me for a good 30 minutes, until I consumed all of it.
I totes have a new crush. Not a man, sadly. I have come to terms with the fact that I will never meet the man of my dreams in Colorado. It’s just fact. I will have to go somewhere far from here to find a normal, attractive, incredibly fantastic man. Who is single. That’s a must…as you’ve heard from my past rants.
Holy balls, tangent, my new crush. Back on it. Her name is Joy, Joy the Baker. My other friend Joy introduced me to Joy the Baker’s blog and I was instantly hooked. All because she’s hilarious, and has some awesome photography. How are all these blog people so good at photography and I suck ass? Probably because I don’t have a crazy amazing camera. Yeah, that’s it, it’s the cameras fault.
Sometimes, when I cook a lot of food, I can smell myself when I workout. Then I want to throw up, mid workout. Like today, while I am doing the Open wod 12.4. 150 wall balls smelling like bacon is sure to make anyone uncomfortable. So excited.
Oh and btw, I will be putting together a post of everything I eat in a day to post on Saturday. Had a few questions about what my daily food intake looks like. It really is different every day so hopefully this helps. You can also look back at my first post about what my day usually looks like! It’s pretty boring. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Caramel Pecan Bars
- Yield: 5-6 1x
Ingredients
For the crust
- 1.5 cups pecans
- 3/4 cup almond flour/meal
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 egg, whisked
- 1 tablespoon raw honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 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
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
- Add your pecans to a food processor and blend until you get more of a meal or flour, then add your melted coconut oil, raw honey and vanilla until you get a very delicious pecan butter.
- Add that pecan butter to a large bowl then add your almond flour/meal, baking soda and powder and salt, then add your egg and whisk all ingredients together.
- Grease a bread loaf pan with coconut oil and then add your crust ingredients to the pan and use a spoon to spread out evenly.
- Put in oven and bake for around 25-30 minutes or until middle is cooked completely through. Use the toothpick method to test it.
- While the crust bakes, lightly clean out your food processor (I licked it clean so I didn’t have an issue having to use any dish soap. wow.) then add your dates.
- Turn on 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.
- Once your crust is done baking, let cool for about 10-15 minutes.
- Top caramel over crust using a spoon to smooth out.
- Put in fridge for 30 minutes to an hour to set. Or consume right then really.
- Keep in fridge if you have leftovers!
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More Layered Caramel:
Salted Caramel Cookie Ice Cream Cups
Holiday Raspberry Caramel Tart
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I haven’t tried this yet, but I will next week and come back to post results. Really I’m just commenting because I had to tell you that reading your blog and rants and random goofiness, makes me belly laugh out loud. My dogs think I’ve lost my marbles.
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Kat
DEAR GOD. I made these on vacation with my aunt and mom during an all paleo dinner. I think I might have accidently substituted baking soda for crack because I couldn’t stop eating them.
We had to substitute a blender for the food processor, but it worked out just the same, so people without one, have no fear.
I wish I had one of these bars right now….
Making these tonight as my birthday treat – really pumped about this! 🙂
My crust was a little burnt too…but surprisingly it didn’t reflect the taste! This was awesome! My boyfriend and I loved it, 4 thumbs up!!!
Just made these delights last night. I do not (yet) have a food processor, so I used a blender for all. The caramel was a little chunkier than I would’ve like, but I still longed for double the amount to top off the crust – so tasty!
I couldn’t find the Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, to be honest the ingredients are really hard to find here. I just bought coconut oil? Any suggestions? Thank you
Mandi
coconut oil from the store is just fine!
OMG, this was the best thing i’ve put in my face in a long time. What a treat!
These rock. Thanks for posting the recipe.
The cake/bar base is good even by it’s self if you want to cut back on the sugar.
I only had a half a cup of pecans after the first batch, and tried to make nut butter in the food processor from 1/2 pecan and 1/2 Brazil nuts. I don’t recommend it. It is only so-so. The Brazil nuts have to coarse a texture compared to the pecans.
Have been paleo for quite a few years now so i’m forever trawling the web for new recipes but there are 2 recipes i’m always coming back to – Caramel pecan bars and Bacon Basil twice baked Sweet potatoes – both from this site! Thank you for these gems.
Will be making the caramel pecan bars for a children’s birthday party this weekend but i’m not sure if i’m ready to share yet.
My 15-yr.-old son, who is a sweets addict and thinks he is allergic to anything healthy, ate these (not knowing they are healthy) and commented, “Mom, you’ve probably made only 10 really good desserts, and this is one of the best ever.” I, who’ve prepared tons of treats for him over the years, choose to just be grateful I found something decent that he likes!