I’m not a person who cares about presents or gifts or jewelry or any of that. The only thing I hope to receive when my birthday or a special holiday rolls around is simply chocolate. Don’t give me the latest electronic or a robot that is bad at googling. No thank you. I want a cake or brownies or ice cream. If you buy me a treat, it feels like you truly care about me. If you make me a treat, now I know you REALLY love me.
Diamond necklace? No thank you. Chocolate necklace? Yes please!
That’s how obsessed I am with chocolate.
If you’ve been following me for any of the 6 years I’ve been posting, you know that I kind of live off of Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips. You can find them in old recipes like my Sweet Potato Brownies and my Blueberry & Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Loaf that I made in 2012 or my Peppermint Patty Chocolate Almond Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Protein Balls made in 2014. Pretty much any recipe that you go back to look through that includes chocolate chips always has Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips, Mega Chunks or Dark Chocolate Morsels. And that’s because they are gluten-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, tree nut-free, egg-free and free from the eight most common allergens. Enjoy Life’s mission is to provide delicious products for individuals with celiac disease, those who are lactose-intolerant or simply have allergies or sensitivities. They want all people to be able to still enjoy the foods they love and to EAT FREELY!
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Chocolate Chip Raspberry Shortbread Cookie Bars
- Yield: 16 bars 1x
Ingredients
For the crust
- 1½ cup almond flour
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon tapioca flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 4 tablespoons ghee
- 4 tablespoons maple syrup
For the chocolate layer
- 1 cup Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
- cream from 1 (14 ounce) can of full-fat coconut milk*
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the toppings
- 2/3 cup fresh raspberries
- 1/3 cup Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
Instructions
To make the crust
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease an 8×8 glass baking dish and line with parchment paper. Add all ingredients for the crust into a food processor and pulse until completely combine. The dough should mix into a slight ball once combined. Put dough in a pan and use your fingers to press dough around evenly throughout the pan. Poke holes with a fork in the dough to keep it from rising in the oven. Bake crust for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown. Remove then let crust cool for about 10-15 minutes.
For the chocolate layer
- Place 1 cup of chocolate chips in a double boiler over low heat and melt chocolate. Stir until chocolate has melted and becomes shiny. Remove from heat and let cool for about 5 minutes then add in vanilla and mix.
- Scoop coconut cream from the can and place in the bowl with the melted chocolate. Fold coconut cream into chocolate and continue to fold until no white coconut cream remains.
- Pour chocolate layer onto crust and smooth out throughout the baking dish. Press raspberries throughout the dish and top with the last 1/3 of mini chocolate chips.
- Place cookie bars in the fridge to set for 1 or more hours before serving. Slice into 16 bars and eat up!
Notes
*remove the cream layer from the can of coconut milk and use the water in shakes or just drink!
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Sooooooo good especially when other treats are not! I used cassava flour as I am following an autoimmune paleo diet and cannot have the almond flour, and I used sliced strawberries instead of raspberries because that’s just what I had. I had to cook the base a bit longer to get it to brown, and I added more chocolate chips just to ensure I had enough of a chocolate layer. Fabulous!!!! Next time I will try it with raspberries and just use the amount of chocolate chips you have in your recipe because it will be plenty chocolatey! Thank you for being real, creative, and making your recipes out of ingredients we mostly have at home already without 500 trips to Whole Foods. 😉 Keep up the great work!
Hi there! Cant wait to make these tonight for one of my girlfriends birthdays 🙂
Question… Is there a way to make the shortbread part without a food processor?
it won’t be quite the same texture, sadly. but you can try!
Any tips for making these sugar free? I’m avoiding pretty much any sweetener right now except for stevia due to Candida ???? These look soooo yummy!! I’ve been craving sweets and am going to start adding fruit back into my diet! I’ll also be making some of your game day recipes this weekend! I’m so happy I found your blog! ????????
i don’t really do sugar free recipes. i’m sorry! if i’m staying away from sugar, i stay away from all treats until i’m not longer following that protocol
I found these last summer and love them so much! I came back to the sight to make them, but the list of ingredients is missing! Can you please repost?!! Thank you!!
there was a glitch on my website which caused that issue, i’m so sorry! but it’s all fixed and the ingredients are now visible!!
Still my favorite recipe. I always come back to it when I’m looking for a dessert ❤️