Hi Phil,
I love your "no thank you" dance. So cool
I love Mound bars but wanted to get away from all the ingredients that I don't know what it means and to look it up it takes too long. So I found a recipe which sounds really great. Hope you enjoy it too. I plan to use other sweetener called Lo Han (monk fruit) zero calories, which I like much more then Stevia.
Homemade Mounds Bars This recipe doesn’t yield very many bars, but that’s because I didn’t want a whole bunch to just be lying around the house. After you try these, you’ll know why. But hey, for less than 30 calories each, I guess you can eat as many as you want. Which is a lot. You’ll want to eat a lot.
Makes 5 bars (recipe can be easily doubled)
Adapted from my Instant Low Calorie Coconut Butter and Homemade Healthy “Chocolate”
Nutritional Comparison
Hershey’s Mounds Bar
Serving size: 1 fun-sized bar
Calories: 92
Fat: 5 grams
vs.
Homemade Mounds Bars
(calculated with reduced fat coconut)
Serving size: 1 fun-sized bar
Calories: ~29
Fat: ~1.5 grams
Ingredients
1/4 cup coconut (I used reduced fat)
1/4 cup almond milk (Almond coconut milk would be lovely.)
2 packets of stevia
2 teaspoons coconut flour
2 Tablespoon carob powder
1/4 cup almond milk
Directions
In a small bowl, stir together coconut, 1/4 cup of almond milk, stevia, and coconut flour until thoroughly combined. You can add more or less sweetener here, depending on your personal taste. Form the coconut mixture into five little logs on a plate, and freeze until hardened.
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan over low heat, whisk together carob powder and the remaining 1/4 cup of almond milk until no lumps remain. Cook over low heat until the mixture is thickened like chocolate sauce, which may happen almost immediately. Turn the heat off.
Now fetch the hardened coconut logs from the freezer, and carefully dip them into the carob mixture until there is an even coating all around the outside. Return to the plate and repeat with the remaining logs. When you are finished, pop the plate back into the freezer and freeze until hardened.
Note: These must be stored in the freezer and eaten immediately unless you want a melted mess on your hands. Trust me, you do not want to waste something this yummy.
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Enjoy!
-Kelly M