Relationships stress me out. And I’m not even in one. But many of my friends are, and their relationships REALLY stress me out. They’re so overwhelming at times. They like each other, then they hate each other. They complain about each other, then they can’t take their hands off each other. They’re like children. And I don’t like children.
I know for a fact my food will never complain, that’s why I’m in a relationship with it. I take good care of my food and it takes good care of me. We have a very understanding and healthy relationship. I may seem weird and kind of like a leper with the amount of time I spend in the house, in my kitchen, on a Friday night, but I’m sure as hell not fighting with my food at the bar, while others stare on with drunken eyes. I hate drunken people fights. I love watching them. Car wreck in human form.
The moral to this story is – annoying relationships suck. So get out of them if you are one of the people that fills their friends ears with complaints about their significant other. We don’t care. Your significant other obviously doesn’t care. So you shouldn’t care. And you should find yourself a new partner. Meaning paleo food. Like this recipe. Why wouldn’t you make CARAMEL BARS your new lover? I’ve done it twice now. Two times. Two times a lady, if you will.
Chocolate Coffee Caramel Bars
- Yield: 3-4 1x
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 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 cup 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 abread 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!!
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More Layered Ideas For Ya:
Chocolate “Peanut Butter” Cookie Bars
Holiday Raspberry Caramel Tart
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These are so good! My poor food processor died in the middle of making the crust so they were a little chunky…but still really good!! Love the idea for caramel!
Proud of your for already making them but I’m sorry for your loss 🙁
DELISH – you are going to increase the dimples on my derriere … Crossfit can’t remove them, so I might as well embrace them, love them, and feed them these bars!
story of my life
I love to drink coffee but don’t like coffee flavored foods. I made these yesterday without the coffee and OMG!!! Outstanding and insanely yummy and super quick and easy.
Absolutely understandable haha glad you liked them!!
I’m going to bring these to a paleo potluck our box is having next weekend!
Oooo let me know what people think and tell them to check out the site!!
ok so chances are, its been so long since you asked me what that even means you’ll be like what the?!?!?
Anyhoo, i asked if you’d built a bridge after hating on me for dissing your photography of the eggs mash up recipe….
Ringing bells? if not, meh, you make good food so who cares
nope. still angered
Dude, these look delicious. And your blog is awesome (I’ve been on it for the past two hours). I am new to crossfit (like seriously new, only 2 days in, but I like it already!) and Paleo (which has proven to be kind of difficult for me and all of the recipes I found before your blog were super lame). I can’t wait to try all of your recipes, they look amazing! AND I live in Longmont. So bring a batch of these to my house and we can eat them and weep uncontrollably while watching the Notebook (one of my favorite pastimes).
Lol I’m down Haley!! Let’s do it!
These look great! Do you think the creamier unfiltered raw honey that you scoop out with a spoon will work well in this recipe? or should I grab the more pourable filtered stuff? Thanks!!
Yeah that works!
I am so incredibly excited to make these! We just ordered a food processor because I was so tired of seeing all the amazing Paleo things I couldn’t make without them, haha.
Proud of you Julie, best investment I have seriously ever made
My non-Paleo chocoholic mother LOVED these! Kudos! She kept raving about the carmel :0)
That’s awesome!! did she know it was paleo?!
I have started telling people that you’re my girlfriend. Seriously. Even though I am happily married with a two-year old son. Your food makes my mouth so very happy – these are like coffee-tinted nanaimo bars, and after consuming a whole pan between my three person family, I am going to make them again for a potluck we have coming up this Wednesday. Mmm… thanks so much!
haha glad you all liked the bars 🙂