Chocolate bars, healthy

If you’re craving chocolate, these chocolate bars will satisfy your cravings. These are similar to brownies, but not – they’re healthy, satisfying and naturally sweetened with dried fruit.

Well these aren’t brownies. Originally they were supposed to be, we're not gonna lie. But they did not become brownies.

We're telling you, these healthy chocolate bars chose their own destiny.

We just threw them together, put them in the oven and then they chose to become awesome.

You know what they taste like?

Like a real good chocolate bar. Like an expensive one.

Real rich and satisfying one. Not too sweet, just sweet enough and chocolatey.

We must say, we're not a big fan of chocolate (please don’t hit us).

We crave chocolate sometimes, but we don’t get crazy about it like most women. When we eat 1 little piece it’s enough (<- we're dead to you, we know).

But we must say these chocolate bars here attract us more than a blooming flower attracts bees. And they make us poetic.

Notes:

These chocolate babies keep in the fridge for about 5 days, could be longer, but we didn’t test that, because..well, we ate them all. What a surprise.

As for whether or not they’re healthy, flourless, gluten-free and grain-free – yes to all. They’re definitely the healthier version of anything baked with chocolate you can eat, don’t contain any grains and are gluten-free.

But they’re not vegan.

There are two eggs in there. We haven’t tried making these without egg, but it might work with chia or flax seeds as well.

We also used butter instead of coconut oil, since we looooove butter, but feel free to use coconut oil if you don’t eat butter.

These are definitely among the 30% of our successful baking experiments.

Given the flourless oatmeal blueberry muffins We shared last week, this will be the only baked dessert we post here for a while.

We're expecting a lot of baking disasters from now on.

But who knows, maybe we've gotten good at baking. We guess we people do change and learn to bake.

3 MONTHS…UPDATE: In the mean time, we've not only baked these healthy chocolate bars, but also made vegan apple crumble mini pies that we sweetened with 1 tbsp honey, a butternut squash crumble pie and a healthy satisfying chocolate mousse. The last one isn’t baked, but they’re all awesome:

• Vegan apple crumble mini pies
  
• Vegan butternut squash crumble pie
  
• Healthy Chocolate Mousse
  

• Yield: 8

Ingredients

• ½ cup dried figs or dates – soak in water for 30 min
• 2 Tbsp butter or coconut oil
• ½ cup dark chocolate
• 2 eggs
• 2 Tbsp cacao powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3-4 Tbsp coconut flour
• pinch of salt
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 6 walnut halves

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 210°C/410°F
2. Blend dried fruit until smooth – maybe add a tbsp. or 2 of water, if you can’t puree them. We used our hand-blender for that.
3. Add butter and blend further.
4. Add eggs – from here you can start whisking.
5. Add melted chocolate – combine everything until very smooth (maybe have a taste to see if you need to adjust something).
6. Add cocoa powder, coconut flour, vanilla and baking soda, a pinch of salt. Mix well.
7. Add walnuts. Mix.
8. Line a small springform cake pan with parchment paper (less to clean) and pour the mixture into the tray. Spread and even out with a spoon. You can smooth it out when you dip the spoon in water.
9. Bake at 210°C /410°F for about 30 min (since every oven is different, make sure to check from time to time).
10. Let cool off and cut in pieces. These chocolate bites taste even better after a fun day in the fridge.
11. Enjoy!