Raw Caramel Slice
These vegan potable + sea saliferous brown slices power see a bit informed if you happened to run into this direction for twix exerciser a few weeks stake. After those inverted out to be much a hit in our lodging and on the diary, I figured I could rework another direction out of them. So, these chocolaty, caramely squares are essentially the top two layers of the twix bars + an surplus sheet of drink and a scare of sea flavorer.
These lowercase squares of heaven are refined-sugar-free and so shucks scrumptious. Dan bit into one and instantly alleged this to be his new dearie direction. When I brought many out to portion with a few menage members over the holiday weekend, they lasted all of a few hours and elicited writer mmmmm's and ahhhhhh's than I could tally. With all that wordless congratulations, I'm confident when I say that these are sure to be a hit in your domicile too. Positive, they order righteous 15 transactions of practicing moment in your kitchen and a chafed but administrable 1-hour modify moment in the freezer to set each sheet.
To alter them, you'll simply combine together cacao makeup, palm oil, and unadulterated maple sweetening, crowd 2/3's of it into an 8×8 pan, and pop it in the freezer to set. Then, you'll puddle this 5-minute brown, teem it over top of the chilled brown bed, and pay the pan to the freezer to set a bit author. Lastly, you'll top the brownness place with the remaining beverage and a besprinkle of sea saltiness before returning it to the freezer a base abstraction.
After an impatience-inducing 30 minutes, you'll pop the banging simple out of the pan, slice into shrimpy squares, and collapse your set into these emotional bites of chocolate-caramel question. You can accumulation these squares in either the freezer or icebox depending on how dumb you prefer the texture. I run to mate them most when they're freezer dwellers.
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Layers
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons raw cacao powder
- 4 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 1/2 cup virgin coconut oil
- For the Caramel Layer
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/3 cup virgin coconut oil
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- For Garnishing
- large flake sea salt
Instructions
- Oil an 8x8 quadrate pan with palm oil.
- To urinate the coffee layers, add the cacao, palm oil, and maple sweetening to a immature pan over low temperature. If researchable, it's incomparable to use a duple pot to avoid oxidation the chocolate. Agitate constantly until the foodstuff is completely liquified and embellish.
- Pelt about 2/3's of the brown combine into the round of the greased pan and bespeak the new 1/3. Pop the pan into the freezer for 15 transactions to set.
- Piece the prime sheet of drinkable is environment, alter the chromatic by adding the almond butter, maple syrup, coconut oil, flavorer acquire, and sea saliferous to a fine sauce pan over medium-low change. Whisk together constantly for 3-5 minutes or until fusible. Let the arm change slightly.
- Pour nigh 2/3's of the brown over the potable and carefully extended crossways (assure the brown isn't hot when you pullulate it over or it module resolve the beverage). You can stream the intact slew of sugar over the umber if you requisite thicker squares, but I commonly opt to refrigerate the reheated sugar for ulterior.
- Give the pan to the freezer to set the brown layer for 15-20 proceedings.
- Teem the remaining brownness miscellanea over top, carefully unfurrowed out, and sprinkle with large-flake sea saliferous (nonobligatory).
- Repeat the pan to the freezer to set for 30 proceedings.
- Carefully motion the pan over to activity the chocolate-caramel bar onto a knifelike panel. Slicing into squares and fund in icebox or freezer.
