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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Made these yesterday for a paleo potluck my friends and I have about once a month. Thanks to these, I am now the designated Paleo dessert person! These are probably the BEST desserts I have ever made (non paleo desserts included). Thank you so much! You never disappoint!
Chocolate, caramel, and coffee….you had me at hello!!!
The best is when you get a little chunk of fig in the crust. Probably means I didn’t process it enough but it’s like finding a little figgy treasure!
These make my life. Thanks, Juli! (Great job at regionals, btw!)
Dude, had these today. Im pretty much a dessert connoisseur and this little number rocked! I can’t believe I had figs and dates and stinking loved it. You officially have street cred and I will proceed to make all your desserts.
these are soooo rich! a tiny square is enough to satisfy my mammoth sweet tooth. will be making again and again. thank you for sharing!
Wow!! I made these last night. AMAZING!!! Totally hit the spot for a woman needing some chocolate. This combines my 3 favorite things. Thank you for sharing!!!
You and I were destined to be friends. Just sayin. Can’t wait to eat the shit out of these!
Did you know you are now famous in Switzerland? I’ve shared your site around with everybody I know and made some of your stuff to share at our crossfit bootcamp. Sadly, these chocolate coffee caramel bars will never last long enough to get shared with anybody. That’s right, not gonna share. They are the best treat ever…paleo or otherwise.
I had the stuff to make these forever but I didn’t get around to it until today because my husband is out of town and I’m sad or something.
OH MY GOD. SO GOOD. The only thing I did differently was I used a heaping half-cup of soaked and dehydrated cashews and ground that down in place of almond butter; it removes the phytic acid and makes the nutrients more available, plus cashews have less unsaturated fat and omega-6s than almonds and I’m anal like that. The cashews were much drier than almond butter, but the crust turned out great without adding any other liquid. Tasted like a Larabar. Oh, and I used figs, natural cocoa powder, and some fancy-ass Kona coffee if anyone cares. I did everything else the same, right down to the “Enjoy Life” brand chocolate chips.
They’re super rich and amazing. Thanks so much, I love your blog!
Perfect birthday dessert!
Thank you, Juli!!!!
These were quite possibly the best dessert I have ever had, quite amazing! keep it up!
– shian