Homemade coconut bars
These coconut bars are a more nutritious copy of a commercially produced bounty bar. You can also make variations with condensed milk but I prefer to opt for coconut cream and a little honey to sweeten it. You can taste as you go and drizzle a little more
SERVES
10
PEOPLE
PREP TIME
15
MINUTES
COOKING TIME
45
MINUTES
Ingredients
200g desiccated coconut
300mls thick coconut cream
1 tbsp honey
icing sugar, for dusting
200g dark chocolate chips
Method
Mix the desiccated coconut, the coconut cream and the honey together until combined. You can do this with a wooden spoon or in a mixer.
Dust your hands with icing sugar and form ten bar shapes with the coconut mixture.
Sieve some more icing sugar onto a dinner plate and lay the bars onto it. Place the plate into the fridge while you get the chocolate ready.
Line a baking tray that will fit into your fridge, with parchment.
Oil the sheet of parchment lightly with sunflower oil.
Melt the chocolate either in a heatproof bowl placed over simmering water, or in a microwave.
Remove the bars from the fridge and one by one coat them in the chocolate and place them onto the tray covered in oiled parchment.
Allow the bars to firm up in a cool place or in the fridge.
