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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Just stumbled across your website and can’t wait to try these bars! I live in a wee town in Scotland between Glasgow and Edinburgh and am finding it quite hard to get some of the ingredients for Paleo, thank goodness for the internet! Will be getting all the ingredients first thing tomorrow morning for these Pecan Bars…can’t wait!
They’re in my fridge “setting” right now… I have licked ALOT of spatula tonight. Cant believe these are good for me! I added cinnamon to the caramel, I am waiting 15 minutes before i steal myself a fork of it. LOL
Oh.Em.Gee. I don’t like the fact I read this recipe while I am 2.5 hrs away from home. Let’s hope I don’t get a ticket!
This has been my favorite dessert so far! I have been on the Gaps diet since December of 2011 and haven’t been able to find a dessert that I really loved until I came across this! I made a batch for my boyfriend and I and he shared them with a bunch of people at work who really loved them too!! Thank you!
Have to say, these have saved me on several occasions. Well done!
I must say…these are AMAZING!!! I just made them and WOW. The dates really taste like caramel! I might have to pass up the chocolate and go for these all the time now! I can’t get over how delicious these are. THANK YOU!
I have a killer sweet tooth and ate my last apple sticky bar- was skimming through your recipes and had all the ingredients to this one! So exited- my dates are currently soaking. I will be rating when consumed.
I made these (doubled recipe and baked in an 8 x 8 square pan) and brought them to my box, plus extra for the couch and his wife. I cut them into cute bite size squares. These were a hit. OMG these were soooo good. I patted down some slivered almonds on the top so that I could transport them without the date caramel getting on everything. I actually soaked the dates in coconut water for extra flavor and left out honey because of my WLC challenge. I used just 5 dropper bottle drops in the crust. That was plenty. I also liked this much better cold it the morning with coffee. Good job Juli! I’m bookmarking this recipe as an all time favorite.
*clarification: I meant a small dropper bottle (5 drops) of stevia extract/liquid. For whatever reason my whole life challenge prohibits honey but allows only that. Whatever. And that’s 5 drops for a doubled recipe, so it probably wasn’t even needed.
I will be making these. Fact.
i was wondering if there was anything i could use in place of the almond flour i can’t have flour of any kind! i would really like to make these!!
so no coconut flour either?