Easy Almond Chocolate Coconut Bars
These delicious, NO BAKE, Easy Almond Chocolate Coconut Bars are perfect for breakfast or a snack or maybe even dessert! Go ahead – I dare you to try and not enjoy these dairy-free and gluten-free, 6 ingredient bars!
Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, once said that “Life overall should be more glamorous, thrill-packed, and filled with applause…“. And, this past weekend, mine was so incredibly thrill packed! You see, this past weekend, I took the money I have saved and went and bought me a glamorous blender/food processor!
When I brought it home and it made almond butter in 13 minutes, I couldn’t help applauding!
Of course, “glamorous”, “thrill packed”, and “filled-with-applause” are subjective…and, the root cause of these emotions tend to vary for each of us – but, Y’ALL, I got me a blender! FINALLY!
Of course, I ended up making so much almond butter that: I took some to work, used some to make these no bake, Almond Choconut Bars, and have some to take to my sister.
We are planning a trip to Dallas to see her soon and figured it would be more realistic for me to take her some almond butter, because, let’s be serious – these Almond Choconut Bars are not going anywhere! Yes, I have sharing issues – I was, after all, an only child for the first 5 years of my life.
These past few days, these bars have been my source of fuel as I’ve been staying up way beyond my bedtime, looking up travel deals.
Now onto these Easy Almond Chocolate Coconut Bars…
Ingredients needed to make these Almond Chocolate Coconut Bars:
- Raw almonds
- Quick oats
- Unsweetened coconut flakes
- Brown sugar
- Salt
- Coconut oil
- Chocolate chips
Instructions to make these Easy Almond Chocolate Coconut Bars
TO MAKE ALMOND BUTTER:
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Spread almonds out on a baking tray and bake them for 10 minutes
- Remove the almonds from the oven and place them in a blender/food processor and blend them till they turn into almond butter. It took me 13 minutes, but, depending on the blender, it could take longer. Make sure to scrape sides down between blending.
- 1 lb of almonds made about 2 cups of almond butter.
TO MAKE BARS
- Add 1 cup almond butter to a bowl, and add the ground up oats and coconut flour into the same bowl. Also add in the salt, sugar, 1/2 cup chocolate chips, and coconut oil and mix well
- Press into the bottom of a baking tray and chill for at least an hour
- Meanwhile, melt the 1/4 cup chocolate and drizzle it on top of the bars
- And – cut and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 lb raw almonds which will be used to make almond butter for this recipe
- 1 cup quick oats – ground up in a blender certified Gluten Free
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut flakes – also ground up in a blender a more budget friendly option than coconut flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/4 cup + 1/2 cup chocolate chips I used semi sweet
Instructions
TO MAKE ALMOND BUTTER
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Spread almonds out on a baking tray and bake them for 10 minutes
- Remove the almonds from the oven and place them in a blender/food processor and blend them till they turn into almond butter. It took me 13 minutes, but, depending on the blender, it could take longer. Make sure to scrape sides down between blending.
- 1 lb of almonds made about 2 cups of almond butter.
TO MAKE BARS
- Add 1 cup almond butter to a bowl, and add the ground up oats and coconut flour into the same bowl. Also add in the salt, sugar, 1/2 cup chocolate chips, and coconut oil and mix well
- Press into the bottom of a baking tray and chill for at least an hour
- Meanwhile, melt the 1/4 cup chocolate and drizzle it on top of the bars
- And – cut and enjoy!
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I don’t know what sounds better: these brownies, or the unlimited data thing. Both are wonderful!!! xxx
Haha – thanks Consuelo!
Yay for a new blender and these bars! Love the sound of everything in them, the coconut, chocolate and almond combo is completely irresistible! So fun that you’re taking a trip to see your sister soon too 🙂
Thanks so much Kelly! You are so sweet!
Heck, I wouldn’t share these either! Great recipe — thanks.
Haha! Now I don’t feel selfish! 🙂 Thanks KR!
LOVE these almond coconut bars!!!! and YES having a smart phone with Unlimited Talk Text and Data/Web is everything!!!!
Thanks so much Alice!
Love no bake bars Shashi, and these almond chocolate bars are making me drool! 🙂
Thanks so much Neil – BTW, these would be good for long hikes!
These look amazing! I would love to snack on them as a little pre-P90X3 pick me up! Pinning and tweeting now 🙂
Haha – Sonali, great minds we have… I snacked on them and a big cold glass of milk after Insanity -Max Cardio Conditioning!
These look so good! Love everything about them! Could you send some my way ? 🙂
Thanks so much Mira! Yes! I put some in the mail – though my mail lady is a treat stealer… 😉
These look absolutely deeeelish!!! Can’t wait to try! Pinned!
Thanks so much Chelsey!
There’s coconut! Of course I’m in. Perfect on the go snack. 🙂
You got that right!
BTW – thanks so much Melanie!
Here’s the problem, I love almond butter so much I would probably eat it all before even attempting to make the bars.
I think there’s only one possibly solution, that you send me a couple of bars. Deal?
Dude – I would offer to hand deliver these to you – but, I don’t trust myself around them …NYC is a long flight from Dallas…and I might get hungry… 🙂
Wooo for a new blender!!! That’s definitely exciting! And I love the sound of these bars … kind of wish I had one for breakfast right now!
I wish I had one for lunch right now too – but we finished all of the second batch yesterday!
Thanks so much Ashley!
Yay for blenders!! They can be magical, apparently since you made those incredible choconut bars 🙂 This recipe is right up my alley – love it!
No kidding Alanna – blenders are magical indeed!!!
BTW – thanks so much!
I know you have sharing issues, but do you think you can make an exception? PLEASE.
Hahaha! Come on down to Atlanta and visit and you have a deal!
These are EVERYTHING I could possibly want in a snack. I mean, chocolate, OATMEAL, coconut and some brown sugar? Those things are my life. You can ship me some of these glorious treats any time…HINT HINT 😉 Love that process collage lady! Pinning!
You are such a sweetheart – thanks so much Taylor! Ok – am putting some in the mail – but my mail lady has sharing issues too 😉
xoxo
I would so much rather make my own granola bars then buy them, the taste so much better, these look amazing 🙂
Thanks so much! xx
Hmmmm, I think my life would be so much better with a commercial KitchenAid mixer, some new camera lenses, a vacation…..I could go on,
These almond bars look great, I have some almond butter I need to use up and these have all the artsy things I like, coconut, almonds and chocolate. Enjoy your trip to Dallas, lots of great food places there.
Thanks so much Nazneen! OOh – a new camera lens is next on my list! 🙂