Mounds Candy Bars
We will be making these yummy gluten free candy bars for Purim which is coming up this week. Of course, we also plan on making Hamantaschen as well, which is one of the boys' fave treats.
These mounds bars are easy to make and rich with dark chocolate and a coconut filling consisting of shredded coconut, coconut oil and agave. My older son downed them and thought they were delicious. My younger son is not a chocolate lover, so these did not strike his fancy.
¾ cup dark chocolate chips 73% cacao
½ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
¼ cup coconut oil
1 tablespoon agave nectar
(if you want a sweeter filling, try 2 tablespoons)
- Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate
- Using a small paint brush, coat the bottom and sides of a mounds candy mold
- Place mold in freezer for 10 minutes to allow chocolate to harden
- In a small bowl, combine shredded coconut, coconut oil and agave
- Remove mold from freezer
- Fill chocolate lined molds with coconut mixture
- Paint chocolate over coconut mixture to cover bars
- Place in freezer for 10 minutes to harden
- Remove from freezer, turn mold upside down and pop mounds out of mold
- Serve
One of my favorite blogs, Pinch My Salt recently posted Ideas for a Homemade Valentine's Day and included a link back to my favorite Valentine's Day recipes over here at elanaspantry.com. Thanks!
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Posted on February 23, 2010 in the desserts category by Elana
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Oh man. These look so tasty! Thanks for sharing!
My FAVORITE candy bar which I haven't had in years! They look so rich and satisfying. Thanks!!
Wow...thanks. I should make some for myself for my birthday! :)
I just love these super simple "candy" recipes that you've been posting lately. The nut butter cups with the flaxseed meal were really clever and these look terrific! Nice work.
These look yummy..Your book is awesome BTW...So glad I have it...I like your webstore at Amazon, too :)
Oh, no you didn't!? These look AMAZING!!! Whoa...got to try these...hope I can control myself :)
Those look so fantastic! Thinking I might add a little peppermint essential oil and vanilla bean to the centres of mine. This could be dangerous.
Add almonds on top and there you have it: almond joy bars!
I never would have thought I'd be able to make a candy bar, but you make it look so easy! Shall definitely be trying these in the future, as I have some coconut-loving friends :)
OMG.....this looks so simple! I have never even dreamed of making these from scratch!
I have a new mission now.
Kim
Elana is something else!! How talented and creative. She virtually saved my life. Thank you!
All of your delicious-looking candies you've posted lately have me convinced I need to buy a few candy molds. These sound AMAZING.
Oh my! Does it get much better than this? Thank you!
These look delicious! I love coconut with anything. I will have to put candy molds on my list of kitchen accessories.
I really like this recipe of yours. Will try it for sure!
MMMMmmm! Drooling!
I would probably add almonds to make it an Almond Joy! Where did you find the mold?
Wow. So much delicious. I really like it :)
These look great! My oldest daughters favorite candy bar is "Almond Joy", so I am going to add an almond and she will think I'm the best mom ever!!!
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I just went and bought some candy molds and made these delicious chocolate coconut bars and they were so very very delicous and so simple to make!
They look fantastic!! I've made something similar, however I did the filling first, rolled it into little balls and put it in the freezer. I then melted the chocolate and dipped the frozen filling into the chocolate. Very messy, and definitly didn't look as great as yours, but tasted yummy!
These are the best! My brother and I grew up on these.. but I learned of my allergy soon after and wasn't able to eat them like ever. I would love to try this! AMAZING!
-Sylvia
These look amazing!
Where do you get the mold for these?
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You are a genius and a Godess and I LOVE YOU!
you are inspiring me. i have been baking since i was 7 (over 40 years) and you are inspiring me to go to the "other side". thanks to you (and a few other respected bloggers), i went out and purchased a plethora of various flours, sugars and oils.
let's see how i do....
you r terrific! thanks for doing what you do.
Hello Elana,
I work at and run a cooperative that is a vegan cafe, radical bookstore and organic grocery store. We rarely have treats that are gluten free and vegan, so I am so happy you posted these. We buy oskri bars that are almost identical. I was thinking of making a variation of these to sell but was wondering if you could give me some advice as to what the costs and selling price could be.